The Swing Factory

The Swing Factory - 5* book!

David Morgan - Sunday, 26 November, 2006

There are more instructional books around about the golf swing than balls that find the water on the 17th at Sawgrass. Golf isn't (thankfully) just reward or failure like that 132 yards of green and lake and tuition books are just the same. There are always good bits plus we are all dfferent people and golfeers, so different style of teaching and teacher appeal to different players. An inustructinal book with more good bits and a large number of success stories is, by right, more popular. When a doyen of instructors is the man behind the method, any golfer should take note.

Leslie King was the Harmon or Leadbetter of his time. From a very posh residence in Central London, pupils of the likes of Chrisopher Lee and more recently D K Spoony have learnt to swing a golf club under King's instruction and more lately from the co-authors of 'The Swing Factory' in professionals D J Wilkinson and Steve Gould.

Don't think that King only taught celebrities. His pupils incldued Gary Player and Julie Inkster, both mutiple Major winners, as well as one of the persent day teaching stars in Leadbetter. All of this was done from the aforementioned teaching school straight of the pavements of Kinghtsbridge.

'The Golf Factory' is all about a method of teaching how to swing a golf club, not to hit a golf ball, heance the actual teaching school where learning the method can be put into practiec with indoor nets but the drills to mimic motion and the breakdown of the swing into its constituent parts has to be perfect. This is always about quality and 'The Golf Factory' just oozes this.

The sketching representation isn't Ravielli and Ben Hogan when the book is full of superb actual photogrpahy of just about every golfing great from the past 20 yeards. The quality is there in the diagrams though so that anyone reading this book can see the fundamentals

this book is all about whilst not being overly infleunced by wanting to be exactly like the golfing star pictured.

Simple is always best. King developed a method which is not a technique, nor mind warping in its complexity. For King, faults were always simple and the swing complexity that some eschew an anethma. His methods come over crystal clear in 'The Swing Factory'.

All this is brought together by the third writer for this book, William Sieghart, whose won experiences of becoming hooked on golf, then struggling for years to improve until given the address of the Swing Factory had made Sieghart a golf 'nut' just like the rest of us.

Published by Simon & Schuster UK, available from all good book shops priced GBP ?15.99 - perfect for Christmas (but why wait!)

ISBGN No : 0-7432-5702-2

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