Choice Review

A companion volume to How Golf Clubs Really Work and How to Optimize Their Design (2000), this is not the usual book on how to improve a golf swing by changing it. Werner and Grieg (both aerospace engineers) explain some basic ways to improve a player's game with an existing swing. Ten years of technical research and analysis went into this book, and the result is clear guidance about the effects that different environmental conditions, including wind, leeway of various turf conditions, and ball position in the stance, have on performance. Eleven chapters, perfectly supported by numerous tables, drawings, and mathematical analyses, will assist experienced golfers searching for technical improvement. Recommended for general readers and graduate-level research libraries interested in scientific golf research. H. F. Kenny Jr. emeritus, Wesleyan University