{"product_id":"2940015132915","title":"The Golf Swing: The Ernest Jones Method (With 63 Illustrations)","description":"Ernest Jones (1887–1965) was an English professional golfer. He is renowned for his accomplishments in teaching many famous professional golfers as well as amateurs. He tutored Virginia Van Wie for many years, including during her stretch of three consecutive U.S. Women's Amateur Championships from 1932–34. He also worked with Glenna Collett Vare, Lawson Little, Betty Hicks, Phil Farley, George Schniter, Horton Smith and other top players of the era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis career included playing competitively on the European tour, head golf professional at several of America's most esteemed golf clubs, and a career of teaching both tour professional and amateur golfers. In the years after World War II, he conducted his instruction indoors at the Spaulding Building in New York City. He found that the could achieve better success with his students indoors because they would not be distracted by ball flight and instead focused on performing the swing correctly. Along with Harvey Penick, Tommy Armour, and Percy Boomer, he was inducted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What is wrong with the teaching of golf?\" asks a writer in the Daily Express. \"That there is something wrong with it,\" he goes on, \"is realized by all people who attempt to play golf, and by all those who watch them doing it.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUndoubtedly golf is a difficult game, and undoubtedly it attracts a large proportion of devotees whose only qualification for playing it is their devotion. But it is not on these grounds alone that one can explain the pathetic failure of the average golfer's life, or the tragi-comedy that is always being enacted by golfing contortionists over the links of the world. One must seek other causes. One must consider, not only the subject and the pupil, but the teacher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBroadly speaking, the teachers of golf are either professional golfers or enthusiastic amateurs. In the main, the professional golfer knows how to play golf, but not how to teach it; and in the main the enthusiastic amateur knows \u003cbr\u003eneither how to teach it nor how to play it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is one of the characteristics of golf that every exponent of it, no matter how immature his knowledge, no matter how spurious his methods, has moments of exaltation in which he is convinced that he has discovered the true secret of the golf swing, and that he must at once proclaim his discovery to the world at \u003cbr\u003elarge. Probably what he has discovered is some bad trick which, combined with certain other bad tricks (constituting what he is pleased to call his swing), succeeds in giving him greater length or greater steadiness for a while. Thereupon he rushes into print. Whereupon some other golfer, whose own box of tricks has gone unutterably to pieces, ingeniously works the new artifice into his golfing system, and emerges temporarily triumphant not, however, because of the thing which he has taken pains to acquire, but because of the confidence (ill-founded though it may be) with which that thing has for the time being endowed him. And so the process goes on, in an ever- widening circle. Then the original prophet discovers that what he fondly imagined to be illumination is really hallucination; but even now his impulse to kick himself is arrested by some fresh flash of inspiration, obviously, unmistakably the real thing this time, and off he goes again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book one lesson only is taught, and that one lesson is taught all the time. Each chapter is but a re-statement from a different angle of the principle enunciated in every other chapter. The risk of wearying the reader by reiteration has been preferred to the risk of leaving him in doubt. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Surely,\" says the writer in the Daily Express, \"among the thousands of golfers in the two hemispheres there is some one person who can make this plague of a game intelligible?\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThere is. He is Ernest Jones. And if there is anything unintelligible in the following pages, it is the writer, and not Ernest Jones, who is at fault.","brand":"Balefire Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084210815216,"sku":"2940015132915","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015132915_p0.jpg?v=1763619683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015132915","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}