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LPGA's Guide to Every Shot - Ladies Professional Golf Association
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
by Ladies Professional Golf Association
NEW, 200 pages
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About LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
Let the world’s best female players show you how to hit longer, more accurate shots. From the basic techniques of hitting each shot, to shot selection on the course, to stroke-saving trouble shots, LPGA’s Guide to Every Shot covers the entire course, from tee to green.
Developed by the world’s leading professional women’s golf organization and oldest women`s professional sports organization, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), the book features the best tour pros and instructors teaching how to execute every shot-making situation using every club in the bag. The dynamic photos in this full-color book bring the instruction to life, making it as attractive as it is useful.
Work on your own game by learning how the game’s best have developed their world-class techniques. Top LPGA Tour professionals outline their keys to success on the golf course: Karrie Webb and Liselotte Neumann show you correct techniques for full-swing irons and woods, Beth Daniel demonstrates fairway bunker shots, and Annika Sorenstam provides insights on course management. Players who are the best address the subjects they know best, giving you an extremely practical yet entertaining look at improving your golf game. And the tour players’ insights are complemented by tips from instructors who have been named LPGA Teacher of the Year and are Class A certified members of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional (T&CP) Division.
Start improving your game today—get the expert instruction from the game’s top female professionals, found only in LPGA’s Guide to Every Shot.
About the LPGA
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is dedicated to the worldwide promotion and advancement of women's golf. The LPGA is committed to advancing women and the sport of golf through expanding its Tournament Division and the Teaching and Club Professional (T&CP) Division, and The LPGA Foundation, the LPGA's charitable arm. The oldest, longest running women's professional sports organization in the world, the LPGA celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2000.
The LPGA also provides additional opportunites to bring people into the game, including the LPGA Urban Youth Program, LPGA Girls Golf Club, Crayola LPGA Tour Junior Golf Clinics and First Tee Program, LPGA Golf Clinics for Women, The LPGA Foundation, Charitable Donations, the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, and the LPGA Fan Village. Through its tournaments, more than 2 million has been raised for local charities from 1981 to 1999.
Founded in 1950, the LPGA is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, at LPGA International, which houses the association's home golf course.
About Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.
It is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf "courses", each of which features a unique design, although courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."
Golf competition is generally played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play.
Every round of golf is based on playing a number of holes in a given order. A 'round' typically consists of 18 holes that are played in the order determined by the course layout. On a nine-hole course, a standard round consists of two consecutive nine-hole rounds.
Playing a hole on a golf course is initiated by putting a ball into play by striking it with a club on the teeing ground (also called the tee box, or simply the tee). When this initial stroke (or 'shot') is required to be long due to the length of the hole, it is usual (but not required) for a golfer to suspend (or 'tee-up') the ball on a tee prior to striking it. A tee in this last sense is a small peg which can be used to elevate the ball slightly above the ground up to a few centimetres high. This elevation is at the discretion of the golfer. Tees are commonly made of wood but may be constructed of any material; the ball may even be teed on a mound of grass or dirt (at one time a small pile of sand placed by the golfer was routinely used and sand was provided at teeing grounds for golfers' use).
When the initial shot on a hole is a long-distance shot intended to move the ball a great distance down the fairway, this shot is commonly called a 'drive'. Shorter holes generally are initiated with shorter clubs called irons. Once the ball comes to rest, the golfer strikes it again as many times as necessary using shots that are variously known as a 'lay-up', an 'approach', a 'pitch', or a 'chip', until the ball reaches the green, where he or she then 'putts' the ball into the hole (commonly called "sinking the putt"). The goal of getting the ball into the hole ("holing" the ball) in as few strokes as possible may be impeded by obstacles such as areas of long grass called 'rough' (usually found alongside fairways) which both slows any ball that contacts it and makes it harder to advance a ball that has stopped on it, bunkers (or sand traps), and water hazards. In most forms of gameplay, each player plays his or her ball until it is holed.
Players can walk to their next shot or drive in golf carts over the course. The game can be played either individually or in groups and sometimes accompanied by caddies, who carry and manage the players' equipment and who are allowed by the rules to give advice on the play of the course. A caddy's advice can only be given to the player or players for whom the caddy is working, and not to competing players.
LPGA's Guide to Every Shot
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