Top Selling Golf Books of All time
In previous blogs we have ventured our opinion on the best golf instruction books ever written. But the best books are not always the most popular. We became curious as to what were the top selling golf books of all time. With a large thank you to “Rare and Collectable Books” a blog by Valuable Book Group LLC (http://valuablebook.wordpress.com/ ), they have compiled an informal list of the top 15 all time selling golf books.
1. Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1959
2. Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book, Harvey Penick, 1992
3. Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie, 1923
4. Golf My Way, Jack Nicklaus, 1974
5. And If You Play Golf You’re My Friend, Harvey Penick, 1993
6. Chicken Soup for the Golfers Soul, Jack Canfield, 1999
7. Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy, 1972
8. Golf Dreams, John Updike, 1996
9. Clicking of Cuthbert, P.G. Wodehouse, 1922
10. The Golf Omnibus, P.G. Wodehouse, 1973
11.Five Lessons of Golf, Ben Hogan,1957
12. How I Play Golf , Tiger Woods, 2001
13.Down the Fairway, Bobby Jones, 1927
14. Golf is not a game of Perfect, Bob Rotella, 1995
15. Haunted Major Robert Marshall, 1902
While six of these books are clearly fiction, it still is fascinating that the top selling “golf” book is Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book, an absolute gem but not really a technical instruction book. To me that means Golf My Way by Jack Nicklaus is the all time best selling golf instruction book. A worthy book and number three on my list of all time best instruction books.
One big omission is our number one best instruction book, Jimmy Ballard’s How to Perfect Your Golf Swing Using Connection and the Seven Common Denominators. That is a shame that the best book has not been widely accepted by the public. But with such an awful name perhaps it is understandable.
What book do you recommend that simplifies the short game/getting out of bunkers.
Hi Dick!
Thanks for reading our blog and also the question. Sorry for the long delay but today’s blog explains where we have been.
My first recomendation is to not use Jack Nicklaus’s Golf My Way as bunker play was the only weakness in his game. I am a fan of David Leadbetter videos on the subject. For short game/bunker play, videos are a more effective teaching tool than books. When Becky and I adopted his style our games improved significantly. One video in particular (The Short Game) we review often when things start going downhill.
No doubt there are other great videos out there that you can also consider.
Take care
Tom of Tom N Becky
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Tom N Becky Rupe
Thank you for reading our blog. It means a great deal to us,
Take Care
Tom N Becky Rupe