Five lessons
by Ben Hogan · first published 1979
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2012–2017first – last mentioned
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…for $2300 right outside Google HQ. Spend $50 or is it $100 to join the men's club -- they'd love for you to join -- and get your NCGA handicap. Done. Read the greatest kung fu manual ever written, "Five Lessons" by Ben Hogan, or use some other book. I met one kid that modeled his swing off of YouTube videos and with that got himself to a scratch handicap. The real cost is time.
on “An Average Guy Who Spent 6,000 Hours Trying to Be a Professional Golfer” ↗…really understands the game. For clubs, buy used or secondhand. These will last you until you either fall in love with the game or give it up and something else. Suggested reading would include: Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf — Ben Hogan Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf — Harvey Penick Golf My Way: The Instructional Classic — Jack Nicklaus
on “Ask HN: What are your hobbies?” ↗…feels that, on his own, he wouldn't have followed the route he has just been led down; and he forgets that there a thousand paths in intellectual space open to his will." – The Ignorant Schoolmaster (Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation), Jaqcues Rancière
on “Interactive Mind Map for learning” ↗