The Golf Handbook for Women: The Complete Guide to Improving Your Game

by Vivien Saunders

Instructs women on the fundamentals of the golf swing, how to add distance to driving, long iron techniques, chipping, bunker shots, and putting, and profiles famous female golfers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609805118
• ISBN13: 9780609805114
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!!!

I've been golfing for years and needed some help with sand shots...and I got just that and even more. It's a great 'refresher' and also helped with other aspects of my game.

Great for new woman golfers

I ordered this book as I write on a web site where I am the golf editor. I love to review books like this for new golfers. It was one of the best. Letta Meinen

Best overall for beginners to novice

I was looking for a good book for my wife who just started taking up golf. Went to local bookshop to compare all the popular women golf books ie. Cindy Reid's Ultimate Guide, Golf is a Woman's Game, A Woman's Guide to Better Golf, The Women's Guide to Golf, and by an easy decision this was the book to get. Well illustrated, well laid-out, clear, to-the-point, and comprehensive. You won't be dissapointed.

Great starter book and useful reference

Very clear and succinct (I love the way those Brits write!) Lots of great photos (especially of the "Do's" and "Don'ts") and terrific illustrations. Plus attention to more practical matters such as etiquette and course strategy.

A Glossy Presentation w/ Some Teeth

Further efforts to find an updated, complimentary text for my golf-learning girlfriend led me to this pleasant offering. Nicely packaged, slick and glossy, it pictorially compliments more mechanical texts like Ben Hogan's Fundamentals. This book is well laid out, discussion of golf equipment is presented right off the bat. Grip, stance, posture follow in order. It reads like a collection of easy to follow magazine-style lessons. Interestingly, immediately following the basic structures they include information on shot shaping, dealing w/ pulls, pushes, fades, draws, etc. which may be overkill for that point in the instruction. Ultimately though it is quite a nice `guide', touching on golf etiquette thankfully, providing some interesting exercises, and running down oft used golf rules. Hopefully the presentation will score some points; seeing all the women in the examples, and hearing the voice of the female author versus some of the gender neutral or male dominated texts I've thrown at her. Ah golf!