Review of Play Golf Better Faster: The Little Golf Bag Book
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Review of Play Golf Better Faster: The Little Golf Bag Book
Play Golf Better Faster: The Little Golf Bag Book by Kalliope Barlis offers golfers tips and exercises they can use for mental enhancement. Playing Better Quickly Twice emphasizes the importance of mental focus, body control and warmups. The book explains in detail the relationship between the physical and mental performance in golf games and its concepts in general applied to many things in life. Also pointed out the importance of being still at the starting point for any move not only in the golf game but also in business, making the brain understand the important facts and inspiring creation.
The book includes tasks for enhancing self-awareness across the five senses—visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory—emphasizing the significance of recognizing submodalities within each sense. These exercises increase optimum performance by building a peaceful and distraction-free setting in oneself within five to fifteen minutes. One of the key areas is how seeing actions works with our brains, such as athletes’ golfers mentioned above, to better learn what movements your brain should come back and repeat. This book was exceptionally well-edited and error-free.
In the book, I am particularly drawn to Moe Norman. He is much different from the rest of the golfers because of his swing style, and he has a craziness to what we call art. Moe's stubbornness and unorthodox style for the time, elongating his backswing as far as doing so, benefitted him most effectively in swinging with a classic horizontal dynamic. That he found a mechanism that worked for him, although it was unlike the application method used by others, highlights his innovative problem-solving and determination. One of the storylines I thought was interesting is the mental side of golf and how important, or not important, quiet time can be. The idea of intentionally not moving to create headspace and allow the mind to focus on a goal makes sense. I found the exercises for enhancing self-awareness of their five senses along with their sub-modality fascinating, as they demonstrated how fine-tuned the line between mind and body is to achieve peak performance.
One aspect of this book that I dislike making the book stand out in a negative way is its sometimes overly analytical and prescriptive tone. The exercises and dense dissection of sensory modalities, then—one form Ann Fordec liaises with another in mute looks; Ronny bemoans "the perfect Platonic beauty" that has come into their lives like a wolf—may be helpful to some readers but could prove overbearing or drying out for others. Focusing on super specific stages and methods can make playing golf seem quite like a science and less like an art, which will certainly take away from the enjoyable as well. Moreover, its writing often veers fully into heady and jargon-laden expositions that might turn off more casual readers seeking a simpler yet still engaging story.
I rate this book a 5 out of 5 stars because improving golf play is treated as a whole package in the book, with mental training combined. Get it out of your case tagline; it is too simplistic. I recommend this book to lovers of golf and to professionals who want to improve their skills.
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