Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series) by Dave Pelz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series)
Book Review: Getting Serious About Lowering My Handicap
Summary: 4 Stars
When I started to play golf again, after a lay-off of many years, I picked up "Putt Like the Pros", so when I ordered this book, I knew Dave Pelz's style.
His no nonesense, clear - albeit a bit technical at times, description of how to use the finesse swing to improve your distance wedge, pitch, chip and sand shots, makes sense to my engineering trained mind. Most of the illustrations, except 16 pages in the centre, are in B&W, and are not of the quality we are used to in the big name golf magazines. On the other hand, the diagrams and sketches are first rate.
All in all, I have found the Short Game Bible easy to read and very informative. I look forward to getting out in the backyard or on the practice range, when the weather gets better, to practice the many drills Dave Pelz provides in this excellent book on a much neglected aspect of this great game.
Book Review: Didn't disappoint
Summary: 5 Stars
Book is great, but it's January and I won't be able to try out what I've learned. I'm taking this time to master the finesse swing indoors w/ the drills and photos. So far it seems easy enough to learn, even for someone w/ ingrained swing habits. Book Review: Help me out here!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
How can this book possibly be rated as highly as it is? I just don't get it. The important information could have been presented in about 5 pages instead of the 425 that it took. I found myself TRYING to stay awake and pay attention, but was soon quickly flipping through the book to find anything of real substance. The review below this one has the real point that dave is trying to make... use 4 wedges and learn how far you can hit each one using 3 different backswing lengths. There you have it.Book Review: James C. Plowden-Wardlaw, co-author, A Birdie for Buddha
Summary: 5 Stars
Although perhaps overly wordy at times, this book contains genuine gold nuggets of advice on the short game. For a longtime player with a high handicap, David's Pelz's book provides text, photos and drawings that provide the best analysis of how to improve the short game that I've yet seen. Between "nuggets" a bit long, but keep at it, you will be glad you perservered. Book Review: Not a typical 5-star review
Summary: 5 Stars
Normally, 5-star reviews on Amazon are worthless and written by people who don't read with a critical eye. This, I hope, is an exception to that rule.
I bought this book when I was first starting to learn how to play golf, in 2003. I was immediately captivated by the methodical, well-laid-out approach Mr. Pelz set forth. He not only explains how to achieve your goal in golf (get the ball within 10 feet of the hole on your approach, and the closer the better), but he explains in common-sense terms WHY it is so important to do so (your likelihood of making the putt goes up GREATLY the closer you get to the hole). What's more, those common-sense lessons and reasons are solidly grounded in physics. Pelz was a physicist with NASA before the golf virus (my term) overcame him. And, as he is fond of pointing out, nothing in this book comes from the golfing equivalent of old wives' tales...it's grounded in scientific research, usually along the order of data collected from several thousand repetitions of the various techniques.
In short, he's done the hard work, he's got the results to show for it, and he's set forth his principles in a way that is nearly impossible to argue. I've been thoroughly pleased by how his instructions have helped me improve my scores and, subsequently, my confidence in the game. Having a steady short game on which to fall back gives you the ability to be more aggresive on your approach shots, leading to greater birdie opportunities. His putting bible is a fitting companion to this work, and both should be on the shelf of any serious golfer. Or better yet, they should be taken to the practice range--these are books meant for serious work, not pleasure reading.