The Pro Tours' hottest coach scores the perfect follow-up to his bestselling golf guide. Examples from his week-to-week sessions, including black-and-white and color photos, and instructional video tags, reveal the simple processes and transformative insights that every player yearns to master.

"The Pro Tours' Hottest Coach" (Golf Digest) reveals the secrets that helped Phil Mickelson win the 2010 Masters and can utterly transform every player's game. When a resurgent Phil Mickelson won the Tour Championship in September 2009, he was quick to credit a series of simple putting lessons from veteran golf champion and instructor Dave Stockton. As a top coach, Stockton has taught a long list of pro players-including Annika Sorenstam, Yani Tseng (winner of four LPGA tournaments), Adam Scott (Texas Open champion), Hunter Mahan (Phoenix Open champion), and Morgan Pressel (World Ladies Championship of Japan winner)-the putting strategies that finessed their game. Stockton's breakthrough concept is that every player has their own Signature Stroke, which is unconscious. Good putting comes from the mind, Stockton says, not from a series of stiff mechanical positions. With visualization, the right frame of mind, an efficient pre-putt routine, and connection to the individual internal stroke signature, any player can make far more putts. Putting has always been taught as an offshoot to the full swing, when in reality it is far different- almost a different game. Unconscious Putting will help players get out of the rigid, mechanical, overthinking trap. In Unconscious Putting, Stockton shows how players at every handicap level-from pros to weekend golfers-can putt effortlessly and with confidence by integrating a new mental approach with a few simple physical routines that will keep them locked on target. Readers will also gain invaluable advice on reading greens and equipment. Illustrated throughout and filled with anecdotes about how Stockton's lessons have helped today's leading players, Unconscious Putting is a must-have golf book and a category classic-in-the-making.

This guide walks the reader through 400+ tips covering all facets of golf. It contains 350 pages enhanced with over 100 photographs and detailed 10 page Table of Contents to find information quickly. The objective is to help save strokes and lower scores. It starts with a Concepts chapter that impacts most golf shots. Those are then applied progressively to Putting, Chipping, Sand, and Full Swing. Additional chapters include Special Situations, Course Management, Mental Game, Practice, Equipment, and Tournament Play.The book was compiled from 20 years of notes taken by the author on the golf course. After sorting and digitizing, these notes were augmented by contributions from touring professionals, golf instructors, elite amateurs, handicap amateurs, and league players. Score-saving tips were stress tested during stroke and match play tournaments, Pro-Ams, and other formal rounds.The author is a long time student of the game. The Technical Advisor of the book is a PGA of America Life Member. The foreword was written by a former PGA Tour pro. The final manuscript was reviewed by a popular golf author and also by a professor of kinesiology who researches eye focus during putting.The author summarizes the theme of the book with two favorite quotes:"The quickest way to lower your scores is to improve your short game. The most enduring way to lower your scores is to improve your long game. The easiest way to lower your scores is to improve your knowledge.""Do what others don't and get what others can't."Many of the tips require little or no practice and include:- Developing a simple putting stroke that rolls where you aim- Green reading fundamentals to aim at the right spot- Different chipping strokes to get the ball close- Spinning chip shots and irons- Escaping the sand without wasting strokes- The two common full swings for consistent ball striking- Multiple ways to curve shotsThe entertaining text is augmented with true life experiences, backstories, quotes, humorous events, trivia, disclaimers, and alerts.