Complex sentence: Flitcroft prepared for the tournament by studying a golf instruction manual by Peter Alliss which was borrowed from his local library--he further studied from instructional articles by the 1966 PGA Championship winner Al Geiberger, and honed his skills on a nearby beach.
Split into simpler sentences: Flitcroft prepared for the tournament by studying a golf instruction manual by Peter Alliss which was borrowed from his local library. He further studied from instructional articles by the 1966 PGA Championship winner Al Geiberger, and honed his skills on a nearby beach.