Revolutionizing Golfing Instruction: The Six Spoke Approach To Learning The Game of Golf

Golf is more popular today than ever. Millions of golfers daydream about ways to improve their golf game. The Six-Spoke Approach to Golf by Tom Patri and Julie Moran aims to become one of the most comprehensive and logical golf instruction books published.

PRWEB) November 26, 2005 -- Golf is more popular as a sport today than it ever was, with millions of wannabe golfers all over the country daydreaming about ways to improve their golf game. Many people focus too much on one aspect of their game, whether it be their drives or their technique or simply their equipment. What most don’t understand is that a more balanced approach will help them bring their golf game to a whole new level.

Paul Runyan, considered by many to be the most revolutionary golf pro and instructor in history, rocked the golf world in 1933 with his short game. A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame, his classic book The Short Way to Lower Scoring, is now out of print and copies of it sell for around $100, if you can find them. But you can be sure that every winning pro has a copy stashed in his personal library. Short shots, not long drives, have won more tournaments in history and constitute almost 60 percent of the game of golf. But curiously enough, they remain only a fraction of the practice and training focus of most golfers, except for professionals and successful amateurs, who have historically landed on the green less than you might expect but have still won more consistently, by making it up on the short shots.

2005 has given us a memorable season. We will of course remember the big headlines about Michelle Wie, the 15-year-old girl who turned pro with more than $10 million in sponsorship contracts. But while some of us were reading the papers, others were reading a revolutionary book that quietly slipped off the presses. The Six-Spoke Approach to Golf by Tom Patri and Julie Moran may not be a bestseller yet, but it is a text that is going to change the way we approach the game of golf and is destined for the bookshelves of the Golf Hall of Fame. Many golf experts who have previewed it are convinced that 2005 will be remembered by golfers as the year that the first edition of the most comprehensive and logical golf instruction book in history was published.

The book has no magic moves or “quick fixes to mastering golf”, but it may be the best text on the short game since Runyan’s, and it takes his approach and expands it into an entirely well-rounded plan for improving all aspects of the game. Patri’s approach to the full swing, called “bookends” may soon do for the long game what Runyan’s book did for the short shot.

Fred Couples read the book, and referred to it as a “blueprint” for learning and improving the game. The text covers mind-body training, analysis, time management, equipment, and technique in a way that was only available before to professionals who spent thousands of dollars on customized clubs, computerized training aids, and highly paid teams of coaches and sports scientists. As the author so eloquently puts it “I cannot teach you how to play golf, but I can teach you how to learn to play golf – through a lifelong process of constant learning and improvement.”

If a book can teach players in such a way that their game gets better every time they play, and they find themselves learning more every time they swing a club, that will revolutionize the game. Individuals, the golfing community, and historians will have something new to write home about in today’s exciting and ever-changing world of golf.

For a review copy of the book or to set up an interview with Tom Patri for a story, please contact Jay Wilke at 727-443-7115, ext. 223.
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