Finding your inner self and

game of golf

CONTRIBUTED BOOK REVIEW FROM GOLF PSYCHOLOGY ONLINE

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If you only buy one golf book this year may I recommend that you make it Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing by Josh Karp.
Josh takes you on his almost two-year odyssey to find his inner self and game, by way of Bagger Vance, Shivas Irons, Zen Buddhism and any other spiritualist method that takes his fancy.
In his often hilarious quest to discover whether finding inner peace will lower his scores, or will lowering his scores help him find inner peace Josh meets a myriad of golf coaches and fellow golf junkies and has produced a book that could do for the alternative golf teachers of the US what Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence did for the restaurants of that beautiful area.
As a sports psychologist and Mind Factor golf coach I have a veritable library on the subject of sports psychology but I could not honestly say that any of these books is suitable for reading in one go, Straight Down the Middle is and indeed I did.