Golf Parent

Dr. Joe Parent has drawn on a career coaching the masters to write a hundred easy to understand yet powerful tips for improving any golfer’s score, from the essentials of the mental game to helpful hints to keep your composure. As with his other books, you will find yourself returning time and again to hear what Masters and PGA Champion Vijay Singh call “lessons that make the mental game seem so simple".

In chapters such as "During Your Swing Is Not the Time to Give Yourself a Lesson" and "How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf," the author guides golfers with simple yet powerful techniques to prepare for, execute, and, equally important, respond to the results of any golf shot. The author, Dr. Joseph Parent, is a PGA Tour Instructor who draws on his teaching experience to offer special methods that have led to amazing improvements in the games of professionals and amateurs alike.

This booklet provides important insights and invaluable guidance for parents of junior golfers. The importance of the parent’s role in the healthy development of today’s junior golfer, both as a player and as a young person, is the focus of the booklet, Golf Parent For The Future. Co-authored by Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson, this groundbreaking publication is a must-read for anyone whose child is either beginning golf, or who already plays the game and perhaps aspires to progress into new competitive arenas.
The content even applies to anyone supporting someone playing golf. No ...

Zen Golf Deck is a collection of brief lessons and exercises drawn from Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game. Applied in actual on-course sessions with golfers, including many PGA TOUR and LPGA players, they will introduce you to a unique perspective that brings together techniques of modern psychology and ancient wisdom traditions. Each lesson in the Zen Golf Deck will give you ways to make your mind an ally instead of an enemy, helping to reduce frustration, increase consistency, and lower your scores.

Confidence, as every golfer knows, is the key to peak performance on the greens. Zen Putting: Mastering the Mental Game builds your confidence through a thinking-outside-the-box approach that helps golfers of all levels get out of their own way and roll the ball better than ever.

A simple and concise guide to confidence and skill in putting by a renowned golf instructor and the best-selling author of Zen Golf and Zen Putting. 

A portion of every book sold will go to support Youth On Course (https://youthoncourse.org/) which provides access to members to over 1,700 golf courses for $5 or less. The parent/athlete relationship is complex, rewarding, terrifying and satisfying - all at the same time. Watching our kids compete can create amazing bonds, or it can risk damaging family relationships altogether. That line can be thin and a slippery slope if the journey is approached with mismatched goals, unrealistic expectations, and a mom or dad who ‘wants it’ more than the player does. This book is a look at that ...

Simple yet powerful keys for keeping your composure and the mental edge over your opponents, which will help you play with more consistency, experience less frustration, and shoot lower scores.

The definitive biography of enigmatic golfer, commentator, and performer David Feherty—one of the most universally beloved figures in the game. John Feinstein, who has spent four decades finding intriguing sports characters and narratives and turning them into classic books, chronicles the...

John Feinstein returns to golf and the most crucial tournament of every golfer's life: the PGA Qualifying School. It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the final stop on the down escalator for fading...

Go behind the scenes with John Feinstein as he tells for the first time the full story of how the 2002 U.S. Open Championship came into being—how a public course was transformed into one of the most difficult and surprising in the tournament's history, and how the greatest golfers in the world...

A chronicle of 1998's major golf tournaments follows Tiger Woods, Fred Couples, and other great players as they compete in the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA. What does it take to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the...

Golf like many other sports can bring together people in friendship, business, family fun, fellowship, even in ministry. This book is an eclectic collection of world famous golf poetry, parables, lessons, rules, jokes, coloring pages, connect the dot activities and Holy Bible scriptures relating to handling life’s and golf’s challenges alike. Our common bond and purpose in producing this book is to serve our Lord Jesus Christ. "The pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." (Proverbs 27:9, 17). “Brothers and ...

A humorous and insightful look at life in the face of overwhelming societal change that we never anticipated—from the effects on parenthood, marriage, friendship, work, and play to all other aspects of the strange lives we find ourselves living—from a Wall Street Journal columnist and the...

'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN ‘A masterpiece’ SATHNAM SANGHERA 'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant … funny and moving' ADAM KAY A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex...

How to Get a Golf Scholarship to Stanford: A Parent's Guide is designed to achieve that goal. The book outlines what a parent or parents need to do to achieve that goal. It is written for those who want to dedicate themselves to accomplishing a great goal: to get their kid to play golf for Stanford. Parents will learn about the academic and athletic challenges it takes to accomplish this goal. While my son's goal was to play for Stanford, it was an effort to get to that school with an offer of a golf scholarship. This guide is a handbook for what to expect and what to accomplish to meet ...