Dave Pelz is the author of four bestselling classics of golf instruction -Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible, Dave Pelz's Putting Bible, Dave Pelz's Damage Control and Dave Pelz's Golf Without Fear. He is the world's foremost instructor of putting and the short game. A former research scientist at NASA, he has devoted more than three decades to science-based golf instruction. He is founder of the Pelz Golf Institute and the Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools. A Golf Magazine Top 100 Emeritus Instructor, Pelz has served as the publication's short game and technical consultant since 1983. Pelz was named by Golf Digest as one of the twenty-five most influential instructors of the twentieth century. He lives outside Austin, Texas.