The Par Plan: A Revolutionary System to Shoot Your Best Score in 30 Days
Technically adept, experienced golfers seeking to improve their scoring prowess should check out Golf Magazine’s The Par Plan, a combined effort between the magazine and GolfTec, a golf-improvement company well-known for its video analysis apps ($29.95 SRP).
Edited by David DeNunzio, the book is certainly useful by itself, but the real hook is its coordination with the My Pro to Go App, which can be downloaded onto smartphones.
Each chapter describes certain situations, outlines specific drills to deal with the situations, and charts a practice plan to learn and fully integrate the combined lesson.
The software tie-in assumes that a buddy will shoot video of your swing for each area of interest, such as the short-game stroke.
The book will then explain what to be looking for while watching the video, and provide tips to help bring your own video clips closer to the intended results.
All this is supposed to be accomplished in 30 days.
That’s a pretty ambitious schedule for anyone still working for a living, but the suggested timeframe is the least important element of this interesting instruction manual.
I thought one of its best segments related to discovering “your stock shot”, using the My Pro To Go App to help identify how you really play, as opposed to how you think you swing.
It is a step removed from visiting a teaching pro and spending time with a launch monitor, but it should be a useful tool for those seeking to establish a consistent approach to their game.
The segments on game management out on the course should also be a big help.
Review Date: July 26, 2013