Inserted into the back of Golf Magazine each month are several brown nongloss pages filled with fundamental tips, advanced advice, and fault corrections, all carefully diagrammed and illustrated. Private Lessons gathers them in one place, and it"s an ace of an instructional. The 63 individual lessons are collected under the umbrellas of 11 separate chapters that run the gamut from the basics of standing over the ball to the shots every golfer needs to the complexities of strategy, shot making, and course management. The line drawings keep everything clear; there"s no tall grass of thick prose to get lost in and no bunkers full of complex theory and mechanical jargon to be buried under. Its directness is its strength and practicality, and, in golf, the direct approach has been known to save strokes and lower scores. --Jeff Silverman