Harvey penick's little red book : lessons and teachings from a lifetime in golf

205 Pages·2014·6.19 MB·English

by  Harvey Penick

“The venerable sage of golf instruction.”
—Chicago Tribune
“There are a million golf instruction books, but Penick’s . . . is the best—and
the most widely read—book in sports. His innovation? Golfers need to keep it
simple.”
—Golf Digest
“America’s favorite golf teacher.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Some sixty years’ worth of wisdom . . . from anecdotes to maxims, delivered
in a pithy, down-to-earth manner. . . . His teaching offers hope that at least
some of our crookedness can be made straight.”
—The New York Times Magazine
“The golfer’s equivalent of
The Elements of Style.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES

The most beloved golf book of all time, Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book has
become required reading for all players and fans of the game, from beginners to
seasoned pros.
The legendary Harvey Penick, whom Sports Illustrated called the “Socrates of
the golf world,” began his golfing career as a caddie in Austin, Texas, at the age
of eight, and over the course of nearly a century worked with an amazing array of
champions. In this classic book, which is named for the red notebook he always
kept, Penick’s simple, direct, practical wisdom pares away the hypertechnical
jargon that’s grown up around the golf swing, and lets all golfers, whatever their
level, play their best.
This twentieth-anniversary edition features a treasure trove of rare images
from the Penick family archives, commemorates Penick’s lasting achievement
with a moving new foreword by 2012 Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III—
whose father learned the game under Penick’s tutelage—and reminds golfers
everywhere to “take dead aim.”
HARVEY PENICK was a renowned golf pro who began his career at the Austin
Country Club as a caddie. Though he coached golf at the University of Texas for
thirty years and worked with the likes of Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, and Betsy
Rawls, he never left the country club, where he continued to teach until his
death in 1995.

BUD SHRAKE, a Sports Illustrated writer and an avid golfer, was the coauthor
of all of Penick’s books. He died in 2009.

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Copyright © 1992 by Harvey Penick and Bud Shrake, and Helen Penick
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Penick, Harvey.
[Little red book]
Harvey Penick’s little red book: lessons and teachings from a lifetime in
golf/Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake.
p. cm.
1. Golf. 2. Golf—United States—Anecdotes. I. Shrake, Edwin.
II. Title.
GV965.P4151992
796.352—dc2092-202
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN 978–1–4516–8321–9
ISBN 978–1–4516–7630–3 (ebook) Photo Credits
Pages 196, 197: Carrell Grigsby Photography Page 183: Austin Country Club
Archives All other photos courtesy of Tinsley Penick