Tommy Armour (1894–1968)
Autor(a) de How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time
About the Author
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Obras por Tommy Armour
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Armour, Thomas Dickson
- Data de nascimento
- 1894-09-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1968-09-11
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Scotland
USA - Ocupações
- golfer
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 187
- Popularidade
- #116,277
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 11
He advises us to play the shot we know we can execute and the one that makes the next shot easy. We should forget the last shot and concentrate on what to do right with the present shot. We should choose shafts a little whippier than we think we need.
Armour gives standard advice about chipping (keep it low and get it on the green as soon as possible) and bunker play (little movement of body and legs), although he neglects the key advice of keeping the club face open throughout the bunker shot. About putting he repeats the necessity of keeping your head still and making the putter blade move squarely toward the hole.
Altogether the book is most notable for a gruff tone, as if he knows we’re not going to take his advice.… (mais)