Fix the Yips Forever: The First and Only Guide You Need to Solve the Game's Worst Curse

by Matthew Rudy and Hank Haney

Book Overview

Let the teacher who works with Tiger Woods, the world?s best player, help you cure the yips?the frustrating problem that can cause even the greatest players to miss short putts, jab chip shots over... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592402364
• ISBN13: 9781592402366
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Gotham Books
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Fixing the yips forever

Great book. I got a lot out of it and have improved my chipping quite a bit based on some of the info and pratise ideas from the book.

Solid instructional book on the golf game

Hank Haney coached Tiger Woods in 2008. His credentials are extensive. When an expert writes about a common anomaly as the Yips, one should really listen to him. Haney covers everything from the full swing, short game (chips) and putting yips. He shows methods of how to swing the club and how to cope with the yips. I read this book primarily for information, as a beginner and a golf scholar (having already read dozens of golf books). He advocates the arc type of putting stroke over the straight back-straight through stroke. The text is easy to follow and the author cites clinical research behind the phenomenon of the yips. The book is well illustrated with sharp full color photographs. Overall, Haney's advice is solid. I highly recommend this book (even if you don't have the yips).

A must read!

Must read this book if you are afflicted with the putting, chipping or full swing yips. Many, many good tips on how to minimize and perhaps overcome this dreaded "disease".

If anything can help, this book can

The review by Fernando L. Sosa "periososa" was both unfair and inaccurate. This book is both interesting and helpful. It begins with a history and explanation of the yips and then differentiates between ordinary mechanical setup problems and true nervous yips. This is the only book to my knowledge that goes beyond a simple paragraph or page explanation in other books. I started golf forty years ago with horrible driver yips which took me thirty years to manage. Then, I developed chipping and putting yips. This book has been a great help identifying and offering typical approaches to manage your yips. I switched to a belly putter and a cross-handed grip and now I only have a rare twitch at contact with the ball that drives the ball to the left. I have a feeling that the critical reviewer wanted a simple, one paragraph, permanent solution to his problem. As sport psychologists and philosophers suggest, the answer lies within you; you already have the cure. Hank Haney gives you the insight and techniques to help you help yourself.

If you have them, you're in the right place

If you suspect that the dreaded y word is part of your golf makeup, then this book is necessary reading. You don't cure them; you learn to live with them, and Hank shows you how. From the mild forms to the worst of cases, Hank Haney will help you learn to enjoy golf again.