David Leadbetter's Faults and Fixes: How to Correct the 80 Most Common Problems in Golf

Obviously, from the title one can see that it is a book of cause/effect and correct. I wouldn't expect to build a basic or beginner swing with it and one may still need instruction from a professional. My coach uses it and that is the primary reason I bought it. I suffered from self-diagnosing my swing and was incorrect more than half the time. It is overall a good book and used as a reference can correct flaws that inevitably creep into the golf swing especially when the flaw is correctly identified.

If you want to improve your swing, do yourself a big favor and go to a qualified instructor and get at least 6-12 lessons. I don't know any good golfer who hasn't had some formal private instruction. This book offers a good overview of some of the most common mistakes a golfer can make. I found it invaluable whenever my swing was little off.Although the illustration was good and better than most golf books you can buy, I still thought it could be better. Perhaps paying an artist to create many accurate drawings is expensive, but I think the book could have been immensely better if the publishers had.

I bought this at the recommendation of my PGA pro to go along with my golf lessons. The book is oriented into problems that occur in different phases of the golf swing or different parts of the golf game. A problem is described on the left page, with the solution and practice drills on the right page.It has been extremely helpful in reinforcing the corrections my pro is making in my swing. Since it's written in a topic/problem-oriented fasion, it's pretty easy to find the appropriate page and get right to the problem/solution. Since the sections are only two pages long, it's not a long drawn-out explanation, and makes for quick reading. Reading through the other sections that might not apply to me yet was also interesting.The main thing I wonder about is since I'm using it in conjunction with lessons, I know which faults to look up, and I get the feedback at my lessons. If I weren't taking lessons, I'm not sure I would be able to self-analyze my swing well enough to know which items to concentrate on. I suppose the same might be said about most books on golf, though.

Recommended to me by a pro as a good reference book. It's a great value. This book and Hogans fundamentals are timeless essentials to the golfer's library.

First of all I think the layout is brilliant. If I ever wrote a book I would copy it.I thought of giving 5 stars but I give it only 3 stars because it presents the golf swing in a disjointed piece by piece fashion. This could be described as "position teaching" in some ways. Or described as overly segmented. I have found that this approach leads to many years of frustration. I understand that it was written in the ancient days of 1993 and that times have changed since then. And that there are limitations to any books scope. I don't think the book is a complete package all by itself. But that is not a complaint about the book as a complaint about the intention of the book - to fix faults.To actually fix faults:a) I would suggest that this book must be accompanied by a video camera (beginner or advanced) and slow motion swing software (V1 home 2.0 free)b) beginners must learn to feel all the body parts during a swing to accurately identify a fault / fix (even advanced who still don't feel)c) Realize that all people are not the same and read this book along with Jim Hardy"s Plane Truth for Golfers and The Stack and Tilt Swing book. (both on Amazon) This is not a comment on any problems with Leadbetter's book as much as a new player needs to understand the variations of the swing in order to apply Leadbetter's faults and fixes.In summary I think Leadbetters book is really a good resource but not all by itself. (see a-c)

Very helpful!

Old book but still a great source to go to when you lost 'it' and need help, but you are too cheap to go to a professional. Chances are that if peruse this book long enough you will find the problem and a fix.

I have all of Ledbetter's books and use them whenever my golf swing goes south.

this was a present and was well received

Love the book a lot of good tips and prompt delivery will use them again

Very helpful in putting right my faults

could not ask for better

The best there is