How To Collect Golf Books – For Beginners

Philip Woodrow

Collecting old golf books is a pleasurable and rewarding pastime. True, it can be expensive, but very pleasurable nevertheless. You don’t normally acquire a collection of golf books overnight, unless you buy someone else’s golf book collection at auction, or by private sale. It takes time to build up a collection. Most golf book collectors are either active or past playing golfers themselves, and that is where the enthusiasm for collecting comes from.

The majority of golf collectors start with a handful of golf books, either as Christmas or birthday presents, and it just grows from there. You start collecting by buying golf instructional books to study how the elite players say the golf game should be played. If one authors approach doesn’t suit you there are plenty more golf books to choose from. In fact, of all the literature on golf, golf instruction books is by far the most published category within the golf book genre.

Arguably the fundamentals of the golf game, such as the grip, stance, backswing, and so on, have remained the same over the years despite the technological advances of the golf game in the equipment used, clubs, balls, and so on. That said, the Harry Vardon grip is still applicable using the modern golf clubs as it was when Harry Vardon played golf himself. Many of todays teaching methods are founded on the principles found in these old golf books, written by Harry Vardon and others, so if you are a keen student of how the game should be played, it makes sense to acquire the golf books written by the authors of these early instructional books. How To Play Golf, by Harry Vardon was first published in 1912, but there are later reprints.

Other good early golf instructionals to look out for are: How to Play Golf, by H.J.Whigham, 1897, Easier Golf by Jack White, 1924, Golf From Two Sides, Roger Wethered, 1922, Golf For Beginners, Anthony Spalding, 1935, Bedrock Principles Of Golf, W.W. Lowe, 1937. This is only a sample of the early collectible golf book titles, there are many more.

In view of the large choice of golf titles to collect, it is advisable to be selective in your collecting interests, and there are a variety of criteria available to narrow down the focus of a golf book collection.

Philip is a part time writer who writes about how to collect golf books for beginners. and collecting golf instruction books.

www.rdbgolftips.com – Download this tip FREE on Ron’s site. Please note I am not saying to hang back through the entire swing with the driver, what I am saying is, at the point of impact you will be behind the ball then post impact your body and club will bring you to your left side, finishing completely on your left foot. (for right handed golfers) Ron’s Passive Golf Method is about rotating the core of your body and following the eye line through the swing. Not only will you become more powerful, you will become much more consistent in your accuracy, based on the fact that you will no longer have to have impeccable hand and arm timing to try and square the clubface at impact with the hands and the arms. By using the core muscles you will not only deliver the club to the ball with power, your bigger muscles will allow the club to square to the ball by rotating through the ball versus what we all have a tendency to do which is swinging at the ball.