This lively and thought-provoking book has been a talking-point among golfers for decades.

Challenging conventional ideas about golf, Mindy Blake looks at how golf can learn from sports such as the javelin and the shot putt.

The line drawings make this book the ideal guide for anyone who wants to know how to improve their swing. Mindy Blake was the New Zealand pole vault champion and was a Squadron Commander during the Battle of Britain.

He retired from the RAF in 1958 and later became the captain of Wentworth Golf Club. He died in 1981.