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Shoemaker has taught both amateurs and professionals in his seminars and clinics over the past 15 years. A one-time golf prodigy, he gave up the game for awhile, his pleasure in simply playing golf crushed by the pressure of competition and his own expectations. His innate passion for the game eventually led him back to the sport, but with a fundamental change in attitude. According to the author, golfers don't truly improve their game merely by correcting the mechanical flaws they think they have. "The key to extraordinary golf," writes Shoemaker, "is keeping open your possibilities and your future."
The exercises for realizing one's full potential on the golf course do not focus on improving one's score but rather to freeing players from their fears and their desire for approval from others.
Shoemaker relates the principles of extraordinary golf to everyday life: "I believe the real purpose of games is to teach us things that will be valuable for the rest of our lives. I also believe, as this book will show, that the way you do anything is the way you do everything."
Extraordinary Golf is not only a guide to overcoming the emotional perils players encounter on the putting green but also a handbook for getting out of the psychological sand traps we all fall into far from the fairway.
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