The Elements of Scoring: A Master's Guide to the Art of Scoring Your Best When You're Not Playing Your Best (Master's Guide to Scoring Your Best)

This is a great read and a great teaching aid to planning and playing to win. More about how to play the course the best you can, than going one-on-one in matchplay (if you understand that difference. If you play you will). I have reached the stage where my game is coming along well - but I keep losing because I am hitting the wrong shots, getting the wrong side of the green, picking the wrong club - I needed to work out how to play the odds. This book is easy to read and very well organised to help you get a better score from the way you play now. In other words it has very little about technique and lots about where amateurs lose shots - and what they should be doing - smarter playing / better playing. Best book I have ever come across dealing with actually playing the game of golf - rather than making a beautiful swing. Better than my old copy of Tom Watson's book on strategy - but doesn't deal with technique and "how to" stuff like Tom's book - "Getting Up and Down" Getting Up and Down: How to Save Strokes from Forty Yardsor Charlie King's short game book called "The Red Zone Challenge".Golf's Red Zone Challenge: A Breakthrough System to Track and Improve Your Short Game and Significantly Lower Your Scores If you read Floyd's book, you will want to read another on the short game - you may never hit it as far as the pros on the long game - but you sure can develop a great short game. There are no age/fitness excuses that are credible once you are 40 yards from the hole! Read Floyd's book - - then read Charlie King's (Charlie's has a whole methodology you will find easy to follow.)

Ray Floyd's book is informative and pragmatic about the art of acting on the golf course .It reminds us to keep things simple and do the right things for where our game is , not be influenced by what others will think .Play within yourself and manage the course .You don't have to be the longest ,strongest and most skilled to win . Being the best at playing to your handicap particularly from within 125 yards is the key .

Focuses on mindset and attitude, rather than techniques. A good read for any golfer.

This is a book every golfer should read. We can't swing like the pros (well I can't) but we can learn to think the way they do. The vast majority of golfers at my club just bash the ball towards the hole with nary a thought of strategy or playing the odds or assessing the likelihood of a successful outcome. Floyd clearly sets out how to lower your score by exercising a little thought. This should be compulsory reading for every golfer.

Used it to try and improve my golf

A really good book from Ray with some useful short game and scoring insights. He was known on tour for a superb touch around the greens particularly chipping, and a great determination to win. I have only perused it at present but think it will a very interesting read.

I read an awful lot of golf books, and so far this is one of my favourites. It's very down to earth and practical in its application, realistically assessing what could shave those extra few shots off an average score.It goes beyond the usual 'mental side of golf' books in two ways. Firstly, it's not JUST focused on encouraging a state of mind or quieting your negative self - it's not 'psychological' or new-age in the least, but very pragmatic. Second, its course management aspect isn't restricted to variations of 'play away from trouble', which most are - yes, it includes that, but a lot more besides. Highly recommended for all levels - and particularly for anyone who is trying to break 90 or 80.

Love this book full of little tricks to help you with course management, it seems like it should be common sense but I never used to do half of it. It will be my go to golf bible. No technical insight on how to swing or how to hold a club, but it certainly has helped me getting my way round the course