How I Play Golf Book

For most of this book, I was ready to give it a solid 3-star rating: I liked it just fine. It was tooling along as "OK" as I had expected it to be. I found the title to be perfect, since Tiger (circa early 2000's) pretty much is telling us how HE plays golf. Not many can play, nor should they play, like Tiger does or did. Golf Digest obviously put a lot into this book's writing and their terrific photography is a huge plus. What pumped it up from a 3 to a 4-star for me was the final two sections and particularly the last. We don't see a lot of golf books proclaimed as "instructional" that spend an appropriate amount of time on fitness and nutrition like Tiger's does. The best thing perhaps was the end, where he talks about how to keep golf FUN. He has some nice anecdotes, but especially spells out some games to play on the course with your buddies that are nice to see defined and recommended by this great player when he was in his prime. I bought the hardcover just because I felt it was "missing" from my shelf. I'm glad I read it, and suggest it a good thing for any golfer to read, but especially young ones. I would add that I don't think any one golf instructional book is the way to go, but along with those from other golfing greats, this is a good one.