Books

Just Hit The Damn Ball!

How to Stop Thinking and Play Your Best Golf


"Dave Johnston writes an instructional manual that flies in the face of "conventional golfing wisdom."
Eileen Johnson, Reader's Favorite Review


Have you ever hit a perfect shot?

You have the ability.

The biggest roadblocks to improvement are common misconceptions about golf lessons, the value of practice, and the definition of consistency.

The Just...

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Golfing Out of Your Mind

Moving Beyond Swing Mechanics

Golfing Out Of Your Mind (Moving Beyond Swing Mechanics) is a series of nine simple lessons to help the once-a-week golfer discover the natural ability that lies beyond swing mechanics.

The protagonist (Jonathan) has played for 16 years and regularly scores in the low nineties. Shunning professional instruction (for fear of getting worse)...

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Stop Beating Yourself Up!

How to Play Your Best Golf Despite Years of Lessons

Readers Favoritie International Award Winner!

Have you ever hit a perfect shot?

Your beliefs are the key to re-creating those shots. Beliefs can amplify your natural ability or create mental roadblocks to improvement.

Stop Beating Yourself Up! reveals common misconceptions about practice, the value of lessons and the paradigm of traditional...

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Free Your Golfing Gorilla!

Your Innate Swing Unleashed

FREE YOUR GOLFING GORILLA is based on the belief that every golfer has some natural ability. This book illustrates simple techniques to help you discover the ability that lies beyond swing mechanics.

The first step is understanding unconscious habits. In golf vernacular, these actions are called comfort zones.

Understanding how comfort zones are...

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The Last Round

What Golf Teaches Us About Life, Legacy and Letting Go

Overview

There is a version of golf that beginners play.

It is about learning the basics. Getting the ball airborne. Making contact. Understanding the rules. Finding something in the game that feels worth coming back to. This is where every
golfer starts and there is nothing wrong with it. Every journey begins somewhere.


Then there is a version of...

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THE QUIET GAME

How to Think Better, Play Smarter and Win More in Golf

Overview

Golf looks simple from the outside.

The ball is not moving. Nobody is defending you. You have time. There is no clock. And
yet somehow, that stillness is where the trouble begins.

I have watched players with picture-perfect swings shoot scores that would embarrass a
beginner. I have watched players with crooked, unconventional swings go out...

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The Long Game

A Life, A Game and Everything in Between

Overview

I have been meaning to write this book for twenty years.
Not the golf books. Those came naturally. When you have a philosophy about the game
and you have spent years refining it in lesson after lesson, putting it on paper feels like the
obvious next step. The Just Hit The Damn Ball series grew out of something I was already
saying to...

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THE GOLF OBSESSION: Master the Mental Game of Golf and Stop Overthinking Your Swing

A Unique Form of Insanity

Struggling with consistency in your golf game?

Golf is not just physical. It is mental.

You can know the right technique and still fail when it matters most. Overthinking your swing. Losing confidence. Second guessing simple shots.

This is where most golfers get stuck.

The Golf Obsession focuses on the mental game of golf and shows you how to break...

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One Shot At A Time

The Art of Presence, Focus and Playing Golf in the Moment

Overview

Every great golfer I have ever studied says the same thing.
One shot at a time.

Jack Nicklaus said it. Tiger Woods said it. Arnold Palmer said it. Ben Hogan lived it so
completely that his playing partners described him as almost unreachable between shots. Every
great player across every era has pointed to the same principle as the...

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