Every golfer knows the feeling. A good round slipping away on the back nine. A missed green, a chunked chip, a three-putt out of nowhere.
The scorecard tells one story. The short game tells another. But the scorecard still rules.
Greenside Genius is the book that brings those stories onto the same page.
Written for the committed golfer who knows they have the potential to produce better scores, Greenside Genius delivers teaching-pro quality instruction through the stories, voices and championship moments of the players who have defined short game excellence - from Mr. Seve Ballesteros conjuring the impossible, to Ms. Annika Sorenstam's relentless precision, from Tiger Woods perfect green-reading, to Rory McIlroy's short game patience that lead to his Grand Slam achievement and back to back wins at The Masters.
This is Book Three in Caden Sweeney's Tee It Up Series - the volume that completes your golfing picture.
Where Book One built mental toughness and Book Two refined ball-striking, Greenside Genius delivers the short game that turns a good golfer into a lethal one.
The book covers technique behind chipping, pitching and bunker play, explored through feel rather than jargon and mechanics. A complete guide to putting addresses green reading, distance control and the mental game that separates reliable putters from inconsistent ones. Structured practice protocols transfer to the course. Short game strategy and decision-making add the final touch to your game.
Woven throughout, are the documented philosophies of over twenty-five elite players - legends and modern masters - on what it truly takes to score well around the greens.
Inside Greenside Genius:
- The technique behind consistent chipping, pitching and bunker play without the jargon and confusing mechanics.
- A complete guide to putting, green reading, distance control and the mental game needed to being a reliable putter.
- Practice protocols that transfer from the range to the course. Structured, tracked and progressive.
- Short game strategy and decision-making around the greens that compounds on correct technique.
- Documented philosophies of over 25 elite players - legends and modern masters - on what it takes to have a good short game.
Scratch golfers save par from off the green roughly fifty-five to sixty percent of the time. The 8-handicapper, roughly thirty to forty percent of the time. That gap, which amounts to two to three strokes per round - every round - is not explained by better ball-striking. It is explained by the short game.
Greenside Genius puts the committed golfer's game in position to close that gap.
Sweeney, Caden: - Caden Sweeney was born and raised in South Africa. He has played the game of golf for over 50 years at a low handicap and feels qualified to offer his golfing perspective, in this his third non-fiction work in the golfing genre. When he is not on the golf course, he is either running his graphic design service or spending time with his wife on a walking trail or on the beach. Tee It Up Toughness is the first in a series.
