Golf: Naked: The Bare Essentials Revealed

How Confident Are You? You need to be comfortable at the golf course. That's because this game can strip you completely bare without warning or regret - physically, mentally and emotionally. Golf requires so much attention, and can be so utterly humiliating, that everything else must support the focused effort necessary to execute your swing. If you aren't comfortable in all of golf's language, behaviors, nuances and preparations, then your willingness to dive into it's depths will certainly suffer. Golf, Naked will give you confidence. It offers the understanding that no one cares how well you play, because everyone is worried about their own actions. No one ever remembers your score. They will remember how you look and act. These tips and techniques will help you master the rest of the game - the real stuff that truly demonstrates experience, comfort, confidence, class, humility and ultimately, golfing grace. Golf, Naked is an easy read, packed with laughs, tips, tales, tests, tricks of the trade, pithy quotes, and lessons for life. What makes it unique is that it's written by a bona-fide, sweater-folding, club-selling, lesson-giving, cart-washing, vest-wearing PGA Golf Pro. It's a guide to handle all the things that regularly get screwed up, such as life at the 19th hole, guest-hosting, sandbagging, etiquette, golf-gambling, slow play, the swing, the game, it's Rules, event planning or the myriad other factors that can sabotage your time at the course. In 2009, Golf, Naked won a Benjamin Franklin award from Independent Book Publishers Association of America for "Book of the Year - Sports".

PGA member Greg Rowley, author of Golf, Naked: The Bare Essentials Revealed (Pick It Up Publishing, March 2009), has worked at and managed some of the finest golf facilities in the United States. The Club at Black Rock, where he was the Director of Golf, was named Golf Digest's Best New Private Course in 2003. In 2004, Greg was named by Men's Journal as having one of the 50 Best Jobs in America. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Inland Empire Chapter of the PGA and has won several awards for his innovative programs, including the 2008 President s Award for Growing the Game of Golf. Greg has played with and taught men, women, juniors, seniors, celebrities, professional athletes, PGA Tour players and beginners.