Search for the Perfect Swing: The Proven Scientific Approach to Fundamentally Improving Your Game

This is my favorite book of all time: a wonderful model of the golf swing that has not been surpassed since its original publication in the early 1970's. Think of all the enduring golf ideas that have followed from this book: the heel-sole weighted putter and club, the importance of the left side guiding the swing, the swing plane and curve of the golf ball, the importance of different shots, the kinetic chain for power, aim and stroke in putting, ... All current teaching and golf science started right here. It is silly to play golf without fully understanding this book.

When I worked at Ping 27 years ago -- when Ping was single-handedly revolutionizing the golf industry -- this was the only book I remember seeing in Karsten's office. That should tell you something. I read it about six times. It is fascinating and full of weird insights that I still manage to work into conversations today.

This book will tell you everything about the golf swing from what it takes to achieve maximum power to why pros tee the ball up higher than most amateurs on their drives. This is a complete book on the physics of the game backed up by the most extensive research ever done on the golf swing. This book can help you understand the swing better than any other book, though it does not advocate any particular method, as many are effective. I advise you to read this book and if you are looking for a method that is unequivically supported by this book, there is only one. Carl Lohren's "Getting Set for Golf" is the only technique book that is completely supported by the proven physics of the game detailed in "Search for the Perfect Swing." Alastair Cochran's book is the only of its kind and can greatly improve your knowledge of the golf swing.

Search for the Perfect Swing is the most definitive book written on what actually happens when a golf club is put in motion.Read this book and then go into your local golf retail shop or just listen at your favorite local course to the ridiculous explainations and profound words of wisdom people perpetuate about the golf swing and its effects on the golf ball and its intended target.Best fast fact-FYIO-ball and club stay in contact for 1/2millisecond(.0005).HHmmm, that doesnt seem like we can have much effect after impact- FYIO-fact#2-"in any full shot,acceleration through impact is a sure sign of wasted effort which could have been used to produce greater speed at impact if it had been applied earlier."I know my pro told me to accelerate to a full finish.-Honestly, the book is a must for serious golfers or anyone looking to have the golf swing explained without the myths-9 out of 10 golf pros dont recommend this book-I wonder why?

I have a first edition of this book. It is a very clear and pratical explaination of what happens in the golf swing and what you can and can not do to change your game. My favorate part is a series of photos of Ben Hogan's swing. This is a very good book for the person interested in learning more about the mechanics on the swing and club design. Many ideas outlined in this book in 1968 have just come into the equipment market market in the past few years.