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The Secret of Golf: A Century of Groundbreaking, Innovative, and Occasionally Outlandish Ways to Master the World’s Most Vexing Game
47 Holy Grails—or, the Last Instruction Book You’ll Ever Need The X-Factor. The Gate. Golf-O-Metrics and Square-to-Square, Tour Tempo and the Pinch. For every golfer, at every level, hope springs eternal—that there’s a secret or two out there that will take your game to an entirely new level. Well here they [...]
Continue reading...The Ultimate Golf Book: A History and a Celebration of the World’s Greatest Game
Sunday, June 27, 2010
From Publishers Weekly The misnomer that this browser is “the ultimate” among countless others like itself is quickly pointed out by McGrath, editor of the New York Times Book Review, who presents this collection of unexpectedly intimate compositions with great relish. Featuring over 300 photographs that range from [...]
Continue reading...The Ultimate Golf Book: A History and a Celebration of the World’s Greatest Game
Monday, June 21, 2010
From Publishers Weekly The misnomer that this browser is “the ultimate” among countless others like itself is quickly pointed out by McGrath, editor of the New York Times Book Review, who presents this collection of unexpectedly intimate compositions with great relish. Featuring over 300 photographs that range from [...]
Continue reading...Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World’s Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger
Sunday, June 13, 2010
From Booklist Dan Jenkins has covered 197 of golf’s major championships over the last 60 years—a record that is likely to stand as long as Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. This collection brings together 94 of Jenkins’ pieces on the majors, written mostly for Sports Illustrated and Golf [...]
Continue reading...The 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Review The 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes succeeds in hitting precisely the two targets any book purporting to present golf’s greatest anything must aim for: it’ll have golfers both arguing with and dreaming about its contents. Simultaneously. [...]
Continue reading...Secrets of the Great Golf Course Architects: A Treasury of the World’s Greatest Golf Courses by History’s Master Designers
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Review You might think that, since the game of golf has been around for a long, long time, it would stand to reason that the profession of golf course architect has also been around for a long, long time. You would be mistaken. The [...]
Continue reading...The 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Review The 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes succeeds in hitting precisely the two targets any book purporting to present golf’s greatest anything must aim for: it’ll have golfers both arguing with and dreaming about its contents. Simultaneously. [...]
Continue reading...Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die: Golf Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations
Sunday, October 18, 2009
There’s an incredible similarity between the mechanics of a fly cast and the swing of a golf club. Perhaps that’s why Chris Santella, author of Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, can be found on the links when he’s not on the stream. With Fifty Places to Play Golf [...]
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Monday, June 28, 2010
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