Good curling strategy begins with the team you have.

HouseCall Curling Strategy is a practical, illustrated guide for club curlers and developing competitive teams who want to make clearer decisions together. Mary Deuhs explores how shot choices evolve with a team's skills, consistency, communication, and understanding of the game.

Across 12 teaching chapters and 16 worked situations, readers learn to connect the score, end, hammer, ice conditions, and team capability to a purposeful call. Clear diagrams compare club calls with competitive options, showing why a more complicated shot isn't automatically a better choice.

Granite and Sweep bring warmth and gentle humor to discussions of guards, draws, takeouts, blank ends, forces, and steals. Each lesson encourages readers to identify the objective, consider the likely miss, and anticipate the opponent's next reply.

Review questions, reasoned answers, a practical glossary, a game-review tool, and structured practice activities help teams carry the ideas onto the ice.

Whether you're learning to skip, building confidence in league play, or preparing for stronger competition, this book offers a shared language for discussing strategy and learning from every game.

Learn the game. Love the game.