Learn Golf Backwards
Reg Knight
Sold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketSold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketLearn Golf Backwards (1965) by Reg Knight is exactly the sort of title that makes you pause mid-swing and wonder whether the entire sporting establishment has been doing it wrong all along. Golf, as we are constantly reminded, is a game of tradition, etiquette, and quietly simmering despair. It is played in fresh air, with polite shoes, and a deeply personal relationship with frustration. So when along comes a book in 1965 suggesting that perhaps the best way to master this ancient torment is to learn it backwards , one can only admire the audacity. What does it mean to learn golf backwards? Does one begin on the 18th green and work one?s way toward the clubhouse? Does one perfect the putt before daring to look at a driver? Does one approach the tee already apologising for the shot one hasn?t yet mis-hit? Whatever Reg Knight?s exact pedagogical gymnastics, the title alone promises a refreshing departure from the usual solemn diagrams of grip, stance, and moral fortitude. This is mid-1960s golf instruction: calm, sensible, and delivered with that confident British tone which suggests that improvement is simply a matter of discipline and a mildly adjusted wrist. No slow-motion drone footage. No sports psychologists. No biomechanical analysis. Just reasoned explanation and the reassuring belief that if you understand the logic of the game from the hole backwards, everything else will obediently fall into place. There is something beautifully ironic about it. Most golfers spend their lives replaying their mistakes in reverse anyway. Knight simply formalises the habit. Condition (Good, and clearly not used as a sand wedge) This copy is in Good condition , which is impressive considering how many golf manuals spend their twilight years in the boot of a car or under a pile of scorecards. The binding is sound, the pages clean, and it carries itself with the steady confidence of a book that has survived decades without being hurled into a bunker in despair. It presents nicely ? a tidy survivor from a time when instruction manuals assumed you were capable of improvement without motivational slogans. Why you want it Because it?s a charming relic of sporting optimism. A moment when golf could still be solved by rearranging the order of learning, rather than purchasing three new clubs and blaming the wind. Perfect for: vintage golf enthusiasts collectors of mid-century sporting books anyone who enjoys the idea of intellectualising a fundamentally irrational pastime golfers who suspect they have, in fact, been playing backwards all along Crappy Old Books offers it with quiet pride: a 1965 guide to mastering the most politely infuriating game ever invented ? by simply starting at the end and working your way back to dignity.
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