Bud Shrake

Este libro de Harvey Penick es una combinación única de prácticas y de pequeñas enseñanzas que revelan las grandes verdades que se esconden detrás del juego del golf, haciendo fácil lo más difícil. El libro nos muestra como el autor trabaja con los golfistas, sea cual sea su nivel, dandoles confianza y obteniendo de ellos el maximo dentro de sus posibilidades. Penick ha plasmado en papel todas sus vivencias, pensamientos y enseñanzas, para convertirlos en un libro con un caracter fundamentalmente didactico. El resultado de este proceso es una calida y entrañable recopilacion de casi 80 recetas, que no son otra cosa que las lecciones de un hombre que rebosa sentido comun, amor a la vida y pasion por el golf.

Desde la publicación de El pequeño libro rojo del golf de Harvey Penick, los aficionados escarbaron, casi literalmente, un camino hasta su puerta. Casi no pasaba un día sin que se acercara algún desconocido, libro en mano, con la esperanza de conseguir un autografo, alguna nueva perla de sabiduria o, simplemente, para decir "gracias". El pequeño libro verde del golf de Harvey Penick toma el relevo donde lo dejo su antecesor. Posee la misma mezcla de sabiduria, lecciones bien fundadas de golf y sentido comun que hicieron tan popular, entre los golfistas de todas las edades y niveles, al Pequeño libro rojo. Como en el volumen anterior, el profundo amor de Penick hacia el golf y su enseñanza brillan en cada pagina. Penick habla aqui sobre esos temidos pats de metro y medio, como seleccionar el palo con confianza y las ventajas que se pueden obtener al adoptar una empuñadura mas fuerte. Da consejos a los padres para ayudar a sus hijos a aprender el golf; enseña como superar el slice jugando al beisbol y comparte con los lectores el orgullo y la felicidad que sintio al ver a Tom Kite, su alumno, ganar el Abierto de los Estados Unidos. Calido, ingenioso y sabio, El pequeño libro verde del golf demuestra por que Harvey Penick se ha convertido en uno de los

ANOTHER ROUND OF INSPIRATION AND INSTRUCTIONWhen Harvey Penick signed copies of his now classic first book, Harvey Penicks Little Red Book, Bud Shrake, his coauthor, noticed that he often inscribed them with the line "To my fried and pupil." When Shrake asked him why, Penick replied "Well, if you read my book, youre my pupil, and if you play golf, youre my friend."Taking up where the Little Red Book left off, this is the second dose of Penicks singular brand of wit and wisdom, full of the simple and easy-to-understand lessons on golf that Penick is known and admired for. Like its predecessor, And If You Play Golf, Youre My Friend is rich with Penicks great love of the game, a love that he delighted in sharing with golfers of all ages and levels of ability.

When Ben Crenshaw sank his putt at the seventy-second hole for a one-shot victory in the 1995 Masters, he bent over, buried his face in his fingers for a moment, then wept in the arms of his caddie. This was Bens way of telling the world that what he had just done was his own memorial to his great friend and mentor Harvey Penick, who had passed away almost exactly a week before. With Crenshaws victory, every golfer, every lover of the game, joined Ben in giving thanks to the greatest golf teacher of all time.Harvey Penicks life in golf began when he started caddying at the Austin Country Club in Texas at the youthful age of eight. Over the next eighty-plus years, he enlightened the members of that club with insights into golf and life. In 1992, at the age of eighty-seven, he offered the world that same wisdom in a timeless collection of pieces entitled Harvey Penicks Little Red Book. He followed that with three more books, all bestsellers, and all filled with thoughts, stories, and golf advice that had stood the test of time. Now, Bud Shrake, Harveys friend and collaborator, gathers together the very best pointers, portraits, and parables from all four of Harveys previous works. Filled with nuggets of wisdom from Harvey Penicks Little Red Book, And If You Play Golf, Youre My Friend, For All Who Love the Game, and The Game for a Lifetime and enhanced with dozens of personal photographs and keepsakes from the Penick family scrapbooks, The Wisdom of Harvey Penick is a lasting treasure from the most beloved teacher in all of golf.

Not since Larry McMurtrys The Last Picture Show has a novelist captured the poignant contradictions of young manhood in the American West the way Bud Shrake does in Billy Boy. And no novel has ever combined history, spirituality and golf into so potent a triumph of the human spirit. There are tough times ahead for sixteen-year-old Billy. Hes just come to Fort Worth with his father, Troy, after the death of his mother back in Albuquerque. Troys drinking and gambling will leave them all but penniless, and hell soon move on and abandon Billy in this strange town to fend for himself. With only a vague idea of how hes going to live, Billy heads over to Colonial Country Club, where he hopes he can get work as a caddie and where he just might see his hero, Ben Hogan. What he finds there, under the watchful eye of his guardian spirit, teaches him unforgettable lessons about golf, life, love and honor. In Billy Boy, longtime novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake takes us back to the early 1950s, in a story thick with the Texas dust. Hardscrabble Billy, tough as he thinks he is and smarter than he knows, makes a place for himself behind the walls of privilege at Colonial. He first draws the approval, then the ire, of the clubs most eccentric millionaire member, while his looks and manner draw the attention of the millionaires beautiful granddaughter -- to the displeasure of her boyfriend, the club champion. Billy survives a fierce initiation and a dreadful scene with his drunken father -- but most important, he comes in contact with two of the greatest figures in the history of golf in Texas, Ben Hogan and John Bredemus, each of whom takes Billy under his wing for different reasons and with different results. Shrake skillfully weaves these historical figures and his richly drawn characters into the fabric of the town and the tenor of the time. Billy must face down his fears and doubts, and he does so in a climactic confrontation that combines the yearnings of youth with the redemption of the spirit. Billy Boy is an unforgettable novel of coming of age in a time and a place filled with mythic echoes and frontier dreams.

TIMELESS LESSONS FROM THE MASTER OF THE GAMEThis, the fourth book by Harvey Penick, was nearly finished when he died in April 1995. A return to the timeless wisdom that has made his first bestseller, Harvey Penicks Little Red Book, a modern classic, The Game for a Lifetime does not contain the technical swing tips and stance aids of todays instructional guides, but dispenses a philosophy on golf, and on life.Harvey Penick knew that the teachings in his book would stand the test of time, and he spent his lifetime pursuing and enjoying all that the game has to offer -- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The Game for a Lifetime, the final book by Harvey Penick, stands as a wonderful testimonial to this legendary career, his celebrated teaching style, and his ability to affect the lives of the people who had the good fortune to know him.

Obra póstuma de Penick para la que seleccionó un compendio de anécdotas, recuerdos y consejos referidos a los jugadores que él considera maduros: y un jugador está maduro, explica, no por la edad sin

EVERY WOMAN CAN PLAY GREAT GOLFKnown in the world of golf as one of the games greatest teachers, Harvey Penick worked with U.S. Open winners, great champions, and five out of the thirteen women who are members of the LPGA Hall of Fame. Mickey Wright, Sandra Palmer, Betsy Rawls, Kathy Whitworth, Judy Rankin, and Betty Jameson all had the privilege and honor of working with Penick. While he was proud of their success and achievements, Penick took just as much pleasure from the accomplishments of the countless women who came to him hoping only to be able to hit a ball in the air for the very first time.In For All Who Love the Game, Harvey shares the lessons hes learned from female golfers: techniques to help women gain greater physical and psychological power, advice on the perfect swing, and tips for developing areas of the game where women can and should outplay their male counterparts. Interwoven with Penicks ever-present blend of common sense and insight, For All Who Love the Game is a gift to every woman who wants to enjoy the game of golf to its fullest.

Penick sabía que más de la mitad de los nuevos practicantes de golf son mujeres y por eso en esta obra se centra, con su peculiar estilo sencillo y educado, en las peculiaridades de las jugadoras ofr