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Dear Tom,

Thanks for writing this very beneficial golf booklet on "Fast Play". It is unbelievable to me how may folks today don't know how to play golf in a timely manner. They try to play like the pros and turn golf into an endurance contest, rather than a fun, enjoyable, moving game.

The pictures and the captions really clarify the point being made on each page. It is short and sweet and shows, as well as tells, how to move the game along and how to express proper golf etiquette too.

All golfers should be required to read this booklet of yours an then be tested before being allowed to play. Then perhaps we would have more people playing good, practical golf causing fewer problems for everybody on the course. Again Tom, thanks for doing such a fine job in writing and putting a much needed informational golf booklet as this on the market at a very reasonable price.

M. Oursler

Golf Instructor - Palomar College, California

                                                                                                                                           December 24, 2001

Dear Thomas,

You have produced a very good booklet at a very good time. I have reviewed several similar books and booklets over the years, but yours is by far and away, the best I have seen at identifying and solving one of the biggest problems we have in the golfing world today. - Rob.

My name is Robert Hitzel. I am and have been a PGA Professional in the San Diego area for more than 15 years. I have served the San Diego PGA Chapter on the board of directors, as Junior Chairman and President. This exposure to all the golf facilities in San Diego has allowed me to make studied observations of the challenges that many of these facilities are facing as the game of golf evolves in our area and around the country.

The one common problem which I believe is the universal problem with the game today is SLOW PLAY. There are various ways in which golfing facilities are trying to improve the pace of play, including the use of course Marshals, the posting of conspicuous KEEP PACE signs, however there methods have not produced positive results. The reason these approaches have not worked, in my view, is quite simple. They have not attacked the slow play problem at it's root which lies with the individual golfer. The average golfer doesn't really understand what causes slow play and thus cannot be expected to solve a dilemma he doesn't fully comprehend. This is the golfer we need to educate.

Recently, I came across a publication that addresses this problem by reeducation the individual golfer. "A Pocket Guide to Four Hour Golf" by Thomas C. Goodhope and Guy W. Thomas is a wonderfully illustrated guide on the common sense principles of enjoying golf while maintaining a four hour pace of play. This 52 page booklet (about the size of the Rule Book), addresses most of the common mistakes players make like excessive practice swings and not playing ready golf. It also includes some great tips and advice on how to speed up play while improving each players game. This booklet is concise, direct, professional and well presented. Everyone who enjoys the game of golf will enjoy and hear the message this booklet promotes.

We as golf professionals, need to get this publication into the hands of as many golfers as possible through Golf Associations, Golf Membership Clubs, Junior Golf Clinics, the PGA, the National Golf Foundation, the USGA and any other method that could reach the hands of golfers everywhere.

The game of golf can be very enjoyable or frustration depending on the speed of play. Let's join together and do what we can to improve the slow play challenge at it's source, by educating the individual golfer. We can improve the game as a whole and make every round of golf more enjoyable for everyone.

Sincerely

Robert Hitzel, PGA

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By Paul E. Saevig (Newport Beach, CA) - See all my reviews


A POCKET GUIDE TO FOUR HOUR GOLF
Written by Thomas C. Goodhope. Illustrated by Guy W. Thomas.

If anything spoils the great sport of golf, it's foursomes dawdling through rounds longer than 4 hours, holding up all the players behind them.

Now the problem has a persuasive written answer that every golfer should own, with extra copies to give his or her friends.

Mr. Goodhope's 51-page booklet is written by a golf lover for other golf lovers, including veterans and those new to the game. Each page of crisp, friendly text - 23 in all -- is accompanied by a full page humorous drawing that emphasizes the point being made.

One of my favorites is #9, "Play Ready Golf", with the common sense admonition to "always be ready to hit from tee, to fairway, to green. "Ready golf" is planning the shot before it's made. Think ahead, survey and plan the shot while others are hitting."

Mr. Goodhope's idea is that golf is fun - a lot of fun for beginner to veteran to scratch player - and much more fun for everyone when all the players on a course play with brisk enthusiasm and respect for each other. No one comes out to a golf course to wait, to be stymied by lollygaggers who don't understand courteous play, or to watch other players fumble and straggle.

Another gem is #4, "Practice, Practice", with the gentle but firm advice: "In golf, anyone can have a bad hole, but a player turning in scores of more than eight or nine strokes per hole should consider spending more time on lessons and the driving range."

There is more to each page, and here as on the course, Mr. Goodhope's intent is to pass along valuable solutions in clear language in a pleasant, unrushed format - and then to move along to the next idea.

He covers everything, too. Take #21, "Snack Time", which reads in part, "Everyone needs an energy boost now and then, but try not to make it a seven course meal."

Let there be no doubt: A POCKET GUIDE TO FOUR HOUR GOLF is as indispensable to every new golfer as tees, golf balls and a bag of clubs. It's an ideal gift for any occasion or season, and the advice in it makes a good review even for the advanced golfer who takes forever lining up his shots, or walks the course at the stately pace of an empress in her royal court, or a finance wizard who negotiates mergers on his Blackberry between holes.

Keep one in your pocket at all times, and an extra to give away!

(Tom Goodhope is from Riverside, CA, where he lives with his wife and two sons. He's been playing golf since he was 7 years old.)

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A POCKET GUIDE TO FOUR HOUR GOLF
Written by Thomas C. Goodhope. Illustrated by Guy W. Thomas.

If anything spoils the great sport of golf, it’s foursomes dawdling through rounds longer than 4 hours, holding up all the players behind them.

Now the problem has a persuasive written answer that every golfer should own, with extra copies to give his or her friends.

Mr. Goodhope’s 52-page booklet is written by a golf lover for other golf lovers, including veterans and those new to the game. Each page of crisp, friendly text -- 23 in all -- is accompanied by a full page humorous drawing that emphasizes the point being made.

One of my favorites is #9, “Play Ready Golf”, with the common sense admonition to “always be ready to hit from tee, to fairway, to green. ‘Ready golf’ is planning the shot before it’s made. Think ahead, survey and plan the shot while others are hitting.”

Mr. Goodhope’s idea is that golf is fun – a lot of fun for beginner to veteran to scratch player – and much more fun for everyone when all the players on a course play with brisk enthusiasm and respect for each other. No one comes out to a golf course to wait, to be stymied by lollygaggers who don’t understand courteous play, or to watch other players fumble and straggle.

Another gem is #4, “Practice, Practice”, with the gentle but firm advice: “In golf, anyone can have a bad hole, but a player turning in scores of more than eight or nine strokes per hole should consider spending more time on lessons and the driving range.”

There is more to each page, and here as on the course, Mr. Goodhope’s intent is to pass along valuable solutions in clear language in a pleasant, unrushed format – and then to move along to the next idea.

He covers everything, too. Take #21, “Snack Time”, which reads in part, “Everyone needs an energy boost now and then, but try not to make it a seven course meal.”

Let there be no doubt: A POCKET GUIDE TO FOUR HOUR GOLF is as indispensable to every new golfer as tees, golf balls and a bag of clubs. It’s an ideal gift for any occasion or season, and the advice in it makes a good review even for the advanced golfer who takes forever lining up his shots, or walks the course at the stately pace of an empress in her royal court, or a finance wizard who negotiates mergers on his Blackberry between holes.

Keep one in your pocket at all times, and an extra to give away!

(Tom Goodhope is from Riverside, California, where he lives with his wife and two sons. He’s been playing golf since he was 7 years old.)

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