I’d been itching to read The Practice Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Golfers to help me improve where I spend my time with driving range sessions.

This book was a much slower and tougher read than The Four Foundations of Golf. The majority of the book focuses on how we learn and theories. I kept getting tempted to skip some of these chapters to get to the good stuff. I pressed on, hoping all of the pieces would fit together and make the read worth it.

Unfortunately a lot of the practice ideas felt much more suited to practice time on a simulator where you can measure distances and accuracy. Those are very difficult to measure on a driving range. Having a sim at home would also make it much easier to have short practice sessions of 15-30 minutes. In order to do that at the driving range requires well over an hour to pack up the vehicle, drive to the course, get range balls, loosen up, practice, and drive home.

On page 365 of 385 I was surprised to read the following.

…this book is aimed at aspiring tour players, as well as coaches who are teaching players who spend their lives on the practice rounds.

Quite different from the back cover stating, “The book everyone has been waiting for” and “If you love golf, you will love this book.”

As I read more and more of the book, I got the feeling it was not written for typical amateurs. Had I known this, I wouldn’t have bought it. I do not recommend reading it. The information I found most useful in the book was presented in The Four Foundations of Golf, which I believe would benefit every amateur golfer.