THE best written treatment of the golf swing, period. Ballard has his faults; on video, he's not particularly organized in his communication of concepts & jumps around too much, overloading the viewer, and he spends an awful lot of time trying to demonstrate what one should do in the golf swing via demonstration of what NOT to do (which I don't find to be particularly useful as a teaching concept...teach me how to do it CORRECTLY, not what to AVOID doing).
This book, however, by nature of a book, IS very organized of thought and and on-target relative to which of his fundamentals that he is writing about in each segment. I've read it 30+ times, and EVERYTIME I go back to it, I find something that I hadn't recognized as valuable in previous reads. And if you know where you're breaking down, just go to which chapter is representative of the fundamental with which you're struggling.
Bottomline, get Jimmy's DVD "The Fundamental Golf Swing"; watch it, enjoy it, and then READ this book. It will organize the "clutter" in your mind that the DVD will leave you with...it's a great video jammed w/ good instruction of his principles, but if you don't understand Ballard's methodology pretty well before viewing it, it can leave your head swimming.
The book, however, should be mandatory reading to anyone taking up or struggling w/ his/her game. I was a left-side dominant "puller" of the club until 2 years ago found me in my 50s, with an aching back; I had me to do something, or quit the game....I completely overhauled my swing, something very difficult to do after 14 years of swinging a different way. I got worse before I got better (as the book said I'd do). My hdcp. is now down 6 strokes from when I started the overhaul, with no pain in my back, and a much better "best shot" and much better "miss". The game is more fun, and the swing feels much more natural and athletic. The old stuff creeps in, which is why you have to keep doing the drills and keep inculcating the athletic motion that Ballard teaches...commit to it 100%; each fundamental works dependently on the preceding and builds to the next fundamental (you can't take "bits and pieces" of The Ballard Swing).
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2018