Know any good golf books?

August 10th, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

Golf Nut, I’m always looking for good golf material and I’m curious what are your favorite books on golf?





There are a number of great golf books that I have really enjoyed, but I have two favorites.
The first is “Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book”. This easy to read book is a collection of 60 years of keeping his teaching notes on the golf swing in a red notebook and reflects Harvey Penick’s vast wisdom about the game.
This book is filled with simple, but effective golf advice and teachings and many of the thought processes from this book I still use in my game today. If you haven’t read this book you are missing some of the best teaching on golf and the golf swing ever put on paper.
Another book that I love is an entertaining best seller called “A Good Walk Spoiled” by John Feinstein. This book isn’t a teaching book but chronicles the 1993 PGA season as Feinstein followed the professional golfers throughout that year.
The book is funny, insightful, and a great view into the men’s Professional Golf Tour. You get to know the pros up close and understand that, in their own way, they get just as frustrated as we do with this game we call golf.
I hope that I haven’t insulted the many golfers and writers who have penned great stories and advice about the golf swing and the game of golf. These two books are just my personal favorites of the many that I have read and enjoyed.




There Are 3 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Phil J on 5 February 2007:

    I love the “Little Red Book”. Any golfer who hasn’t read it should get it today!
    Good, common sense advice from Harvey Penick. I like your advice also Golf Nut.
    Phil

  2. Comment by The Golf Nut on 5 February 2007:

    Phil,
    Thanks for the comment and the compliment, but please don’t even put me in the same paragraph as Harvey Penick.
    He is one of the great golfers and golf teachers of all time.
    I hope that you enjoy visiting The Golf Nut and that it helps you in some small way with your golf swing. But we’re just golf amateurs helping each other here.
    The Golf Nut

  3. Comment by Andy P on 19 November 2007:

    My web site is not a blog, so you can’t post– but visit to see my crazy take on a golf gift.
    John Feinstein’s most recent book, “Tales from Q School” is also a great read about the “Fifth Major” As a lover of golf history, I also have liked books on Bobby Jones but, far and away, my favorite read was about one of his contemporaries– Walter Hagen. He was absolutely the most colorful person the game ever produced and was instrumental in the formation of the PGA. Get the book “Sir Walter: Walter Hagen and the Invention of Professional Golf” to learn more. Available on Amazon.

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