How I Play Golf

Tiger Woods

May 2025 · Hachette+ORM

About this ebook

Tiger Woods shares his secrets to success—and how to use them to improve your golf game.

There is simply no athlete quite like Tiger Woods. His domination of golf is unparalleled. His achievements at the beginning of his career are extraordinary. And his approach to the game, from the power of his drives to the discipline of his mind, stand a cut above that of his competitors. Now he has written his book about how he plays golf, offering us an intimate view of both his game—mental and physical—and his unique personality on and off the course.

In the first and only how-to authorized by Tiger Woods, he reveals how he learned the game backward—from the green to the tee. He methodically analyzes every aspect of the sport, from lining up a putt to following through on a tee shot, from choosing the right club to keeping focus after a bad shot. With hundreds of brilliant photos, Tiger uses a frame-by-frame approach to explain his golf fundamentals, examining his personal intricacies of grip, stance, ball position, balance, rhythm, and routine. As Tiger shows us how he does it, and how he has learned to make changes in his own game, he helps us improve ours with some of his favorite techniques and tips, including:

· Tiger's six keys to a great backswing

· The biggest, most common mistake in putting and how to avoid it

· How to psyche yourself up for a key shot, and how to "throttle back" when you need to

· How to practice your golf shots—and have fun doing it

· How to control spin, trajectory, and direction with your irons—using the shape of your divot as a guide

· The "knockdown" shot—learn how to keep a ball out of high winds and heading in the direction you want it to go

· Tiger's do's and don'ts of course management, including knowing when and when not to lay up

· Tiger's best exercises to upgrade your strength and flexibility

With wonderful asides about golf as a contest of character, and Tiger's recollections of how he learned the game from his dad and how he competes today against the best players in the world on courses from Augusta to St. Andrews, How I Play Golf is as personable and charming as it is instructive. Indeed, the book may be the ultimate golf lesson.

Ratings and reviews

Has just about everything I wanted to know. Great teaching aide for each aspect of the game, mixed with some cool personal golf stories. Inspirational insight.

great book

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About the author

Tiger Woods has had an unprecedented career since becoming a professional golfer in the late summer of 1996. He has won 105 tournaments, 79 of those on the PGA TOUR, including the 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2005 Masters Tournaments, 1999, 2000, 2006, and 2007 PGA Championships, 2000, 2002, and 2008 U.S. Open Championships, and 2000, 2005, and 2006 British Open Championships. With his second Masters victory in 2001, Tiger became the first ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time. In winning the 2000 British Open at St. Andrews, Woods became the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam of professional major championships and only the fifth ever to do so. Tiger also was the youngest Masters champion ever, at the age of 21 years, three months and 14 days, and was the first African-American or individual of Asian heritage to win a major championship.
Lorne Rubenstein has written 13 books while contributing to magazines around the world. In 2018, he received the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.