{"id":1092,"date":"2010-09-06T01:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2011-11-23T00:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T07:51:23","slug":"book-review-the-secret-of-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/book-reviews\/1092\/book-review-the-secret-of-golf","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  The Secret of Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By George Peper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secret of Golf\u201d is a compilation of some 47 \u201cSecrets\u201d to playing this crazy game.\u00a0 Each contributed something new to the golf body of knowledge.\u00a0 Consequently, don\u2019t expect anything from either Bobby Jones or Jack Nicklaus as these two well to doers were taught at an early age by very accomplished instructors and later contributed nothing truly original.\u00a0 Edited by George Peper, who for many years ran Golf Magazine, he is as well equipped and qualified as any to produce this.\u00a0 It includes eight insights from professional golfers, most from instructors, and even a few inventors and golfing savants.\u00a0 Quite frankly, I really enjoyed the book, though as a compilation, there is nothing new to it either.\u00a0 Mainly it is the joy to gauge one novel technique against another under a similar format.\u00a0 Viewing ideas older than a century to the latest ones is fascinating.\u00a0 Which one or ones will you choose?\u00a0 Or will you glean a little from each?\u00a0 For the instructor, this is a \u201cone-stop shop\u201d to begin your research.\u00a0 Now with all this information, every reader should be a scratch player, right?\u00a0 Well, as I have proven time and again, it is one thing to grasp a method, quite another to apply it.\u00a0 The Secret of Golf comes in either hard or soft cover ($29.95, $18.95) and is available from Workman Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Peper \u201cThe Secret of Golf\u201d is a compilation of some 47 \u201cSecrets\u201d to playing this crazy game.\u00a0 Each&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/book-reviews\/1092\/book-review-the-secret-of-golf\" title=\"ReadBook Review:  The Secret of Golf\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2437],"tags":[710,3126],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-golf-instruction","tag-george-peper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}