FINALLY: THE GOLF SWING'S SIMPLE SECRET - A revolutionary method proved for the weekend golfer to significantly improve distance and accuracy from day one (1)

The steps Were very informativo and easy to follow , very little technical. Some of his items I have used intermittely during my career and they worked but thru trial and error I got a way from them . Im 81 and I intend to Start practicing his his swing secrets, Ive lost my swing and I think this might be my salvation to laying decente again..

Mr. Tamayo has created an interesting little pamphlet here. He claims that you can improve your golf swing when you stop focusing on the little details, and just follow his three simple steps toward the secret of the golf swing. He says himself that his book is intended as a "quick fix" book... so if you want to shave a couple strokes off your handicap, you should be able to in short order if you read this.If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That's the case here. The tips and advice he gives are sound, and the golf pro I discussed them with agreed with me. However, you won't go from being a 25+ handicap to a 10 handicap in one weekend.This book is intended for someone who is inconsistent off the tee and in the fairway. It helps to break the golf swing down into simple elements, and allows you to begin crafting a more consistent swing, due to focusing on the checkpoints he gives. You will hit the ball straighter and longer, but like he says, you'll need to engrain his advice into your muscle memory first. Like everything, it will take work. if you are below a 10 handicap, don't bother with this. Possibly buy it as a gift for one of your fellow golfers who struggles a little more.As many golfers know, however, the true way to really start lowering your scores is to putt, putt, putt, chip, chip, chip, and pitch, pitch, pitch. This book gives little advice on the short game, but that's okay. It's not what its intended purpose is. Combine this book with  Secrets of the Short Game  and you'll have a good one-two punch to start improving your game.In summary, if you struggle to swing the club consistently off the tee or with your irons from 120 yards out or further, this would be a good book for you (especially if you have a Kindle... it's only $.99). It will teach you more consistent ball striking and give you a technique that will lower your scores. Combine it with some good short game advice for a true complete instruction.UPDATE: 7/29/10I've continued to implement Tamayo's methods over the summer, and there has been some good improvement. My handicap has dropped from 20 to 16 in the last couple months. I am able to get from tee to green with much more consistency now.However, I wished I had taken video of my swing right when I started using this method. In following Mr. Tamayo's back swing instructions, I developed a severe flaw in my swing that was not perceptible to me. Thanks to the significant upright shoulder turn that the backswing calls for, I was bringing the club head far to the right of where it should have been. It was almost directly over my head. I only noticed this because I asked my wife to video tape me swinging a club in the back yard. The next day, I went to the range and focused on keeping my club head more to the left during the back swing. I asked someone at the driving range what it looked like, and he said the back swing looked right where it should be, even though for me, it felt like it was extremely flat. My ball striking became even more consistent, and the next time I played a round, I broke 85 for the first time in my life. At this rate, this could be the summer of 80.So, I would encourage everyone trying this method to have someone video tape or otherwise monitor your swing, in order to see if it looks right.

As one who took up golf only two years ago--at age 61--I can attest to the fact that the most difficult aspect of the game for beginners is getting to a point where they can strike the ball consistently and correctly off the tee and from the fairway. I think most would agree that is the first major golfing "hurdle" to overcome.Then, as other reviews here have mentioned, the next hurdle--and the real secret to lowering one's score--is around the green; i.e., improving consistency and accuracy in pitching, chipping and putting.Tamayo's little book covers, in simple, plain, easy to understand words, a critical part of getting over that first hurdle. And I should add it's one about which very little seems to have been written. Or at least very little that is as easy to understand as this book.That's probably why there are millions of golfers out there suffering from the same basic swing flaw: Coming over the top, swinging outside to in, usually leading to slicing the ball and making poor contact.Tamayo gives some easy to understand pointers and basic drills on how to achieve the proper shoulder turn during the takeaway. And then, perhaps most importantly, once you're at the top of the backswing, how to correctly start the move down toward the ball on the proper swing plane. And finally, once you get there, how to achieve that mysterious quantity called "lag" in order to make better contact.For those tips and drills alone the book is well worth the price, and I definitely recommend that anyone having problems in these areas, which is most of us, should buy it. You won't be disappointed.That said, the author asked for feedback and reviews at the end of the book. I rated it 4 stars out of 5 and here are some things that would have made it even better:First, the photos are all b&w, and I ceratinly understand the added publishing expense issues related to going beyond that. However, many are the small thumbnail variety which makes it hard to see exactly what the subject is doing differently from one frame to the next. So better photos would improve the book substantially. I would add that any instruction book also benefits from extensive use of graphics and drawings to help illustrate key points. And while there are some, more would be helpful, particularly given that the subject matter--proper swing plane and how to get it--is a little obtuse, to say the least.Second, the writing and editing, while certainly adequate to convey the main points, could be improved as well. Tightening down the editing, for example, rather than shortening the book, would then have left more space for the author to elaborate on some its key points, such as the one about the exact feeling and sensation of proper lag at the start of the downswing.

I re-read this book yesterday after putting it down for several years. I find Tamayo’s advice for guiding the swing is very helpful. I am a single digit handicap so it is very easy for me to glean the wisdom of this book. He uses the shoulder turn as a guide for the full swing. Yamato gives an excellent discussion of creating lag. He presents steps to developing lag. He shows how to create more lag. I highly recommend this golf book!

Ok, I purchased this book yesterday evening. I'm a relatively good golfer handicap of 10. However, I'm that handicap based on the fact that I've collected all the low hanging fruit so to speak; setup, grip, course management, reasonable short game, etc. However, I felt/knew my swing was controllable and safe but lacking in real dynamic power. I've looked everywhere to find a fix to my lack of 'lag' (I've videoed my swing) the holy grail of increasing power it would seem. I'm quite fit (martial arts instructor) and flexible. Within 2 hours of employing the drills outlined in this book I was hitting the ball better. Cleaner contact with zero effort other than concentrating on the thoughts suggested in the book. Maybe everything I needed was already in my head/body. However, this book found them for me where hours of lessons, practice and YT videos ultimately failed.

Apologies to the author, because it's completely well intended to help people with their golf swing, but honestly, this is just another "this is the secret" book that might help a handful of people but hurt most, should they follow the advice.As we all know, there is no "one golf swing". There certainly isn't a "secret". Why these books keep getting written is quite baffling.The biomechanical information in it is mostly wrong. Particularly the stuff about "lag" which was debunked years ago.The thing that I found most frustrating was, the author says "most people who write books just tell you how *their* successful golf swing feels"... and then goes on to do exactly the same.

Bought the book on kindle, read it a couple of times (it's not particularly long), and took the advice out for a spin on the range.Like most change in the golf swing it didn't feel comfortable, I guess if it did I probably wasn't doing it right. Anyhow, after a couple of buckets of balls I was starting to come to terms with what the author was trying to get across, albeit I was thinning it a fair bit.It wasn't till I got to play a round at my club where it finally clicked and I started to feel lag in my golf swing, probably for the first time - btw it feels incredible!I'm a steady golfer, i play off 14 and I have had plenty of lessons and read a lot about the golf swing. It's probably in my nature to tinker and have too many things going on in my head when I play. That's probably this books strongest point, it's simple and only tries to convey a few points - backed up with some good drills to enforce the feel of what he is trying to explain.Give it a go, for £3 it's definitely worth a try - and he is donating some of the proceeds to charity too.Note for the author - when is your short game book coming out!!

This is one of the best golf instruction books I have read. It is easy to read - you can read the whole book in a couple of hours - and is very practical guide for anyone looking to develop a one plane swing. Since adopting the technique my iron play has improved dramatically - especially with the shorter irons 5-pw. If you currently swing the club on two planes it may take a bit of practice to master the shoulder turn but once you have got it you will notice a big improvement in your ball striking and distance. I am hitting my irons 10 yards longer than before I adopted this technique. Definitely worth the money!!

I've been playing golf now for 40 years and in that time I've evolved my own ideas about the golf swing. My swing has changed from very upright to a flatter plane, and I now hit the ball better than I ever hit it in my youth. I'm using more of a one plane swing which basically means bending over more at address and rotating your left shoulder down and your right shoulder up on the backswing and reversing this process on the downswing - and using the big muscles to square up the clubface, not the hands. There is a very good description of the ideal backswing process in 'The Golf Swing's Simple Secret', I'm less convinced of his downswing secret but overall it is well worth a read. Jim Hardy's book 'The One Plane Swing' is required reading also for anyone like me who finds this technique useful.