Author: Phil Carlucci
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439651663
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
When the European sport of golf found its way to Long Island and took root in the Hamptons at Shinnecock Hills in 1891, its journey across the Atlantic served as the opening drive of a recreational era that now spans three centuries. Home to more than 130 golf courses, the area boasts prestigious American clubs overlooking picturesque Atlantic bays and inlets, along with public layouts climbing and descending the region's sloping terrain. Long Island is home to the most popular municipal golf facility in the country, the centerpiece of which is Bethpage Black, "the People's Country Club." Celebrated architects like A.W. Tillinghast, Devereux Emmet, Seth Raynor, and C.B. Macdonald built many of Long Island's famous courses, which have challenged the brightest of golf's stars. International tournaments and star-studded exhibitions have all been decided on Long Island turf, helping it grow into one of the world's most prominent golf settings.
Long Island Golf
Author: Phil Carlucci
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439651663
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
When the European sport of golf found its way to Long Island and took root in the Hamptons at Shinnecock Hills in 1891, its journey across the Atlantic served as the opening drive of a recreational era that now spans three centuries. Home to more than 130 golf courses, the area boasts prestigious American clubs overlooking picturesque Atlantic bays and inlets, along with public layouts climbing and descending the region's sloping terrain. Long Island is home to the most popular municipal golf facility in the country, the centerpiece of which is Bethpage Black, "the People's Country Club." Celebrated architects like A.W. Tillinghast, Devereux Emmet, Seth Raynor, and C.B. Macdonald built many of Long Island's famous courses, which have challenged the brightest of golf's stars. International tournaments and star-studded exhibitions have all been decided on Long Island turf, helping it grow into one of the world's most prominent golf settings.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439651663
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
When the European sport of golf found its way to Long Island and took root in the Hamptons at Shinnecock Hills in 1891, its journey across the Atlantic served as the opening drive of a recreational era that now spans three centuries. Home to more than 130 golf courses, the area boasts prestigious American clubs overlooking picturesque Atlantic bays and inlets, along with public layouts climbing and descending the region's sloping terrain. Long Island is home to the most popular municipal golf facility in the country, the centerpiece of which is Bethpage Black, "the People's Country Club." Celebrated architects like A.W. Tillinghast, Devereux Emmet, Seth Raynor, and C.B. Macdonald built many of Long Island's famous courses, which have challenged the brightest of golf's stars. International tournaments and star-studded exhibitions have all been decided on Long Island turf, helping it grow into one of the world's most prominent golf settings.
Golf's Grand Design
Author: Bob Cupp
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781478176381
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Golf's Grand Design," prepared as a companion volume to the PBS documentary of the same name, expands upon the information presented in the television program. Co-authored by Bob Cupp, one of America's leading golf course designers, and Ron Whitten, Golf Digest's longtime senior editor on golf architecture, the book features rare sketches and diagrams of golf holes—some never before published—by 34 past and present golf architects, including Alister MacKenzie, Pete Dye, Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doak, Gil Hanse, Doug Carrick, Steve Smyers and David McLay Kidd. In each chapter, based upon one of the drawings, Cupp and Whitten explore a different facet of the course depicted and present unique perspectives into the craft and art of golf course architecture. These sketches are the vehicles by which design becomes grass. They are not AutoCAD plottings used to clear permits (full of technicalities practically indecipherable by everyday folks), but intimate, immediate and sometimes idiosyncratic streams of consciousness that are handed to a bulldozer operator, along with words of instruction, which become reality; the very crux of golf design. These drawings seldom survive; ending up as grocery lists, note pads or even shelf paper. But if one comes back to the designer after the fact - after the hole has been played and proclaimed fun, the drawings become treasures.Written in a lively conversational format, "Golf's Grand Design" takes readers behind the scenes in the creation of many of America's finest courses, from the modest-budget Bully Pulpit in North Dakota to the mega-budget Shadow Creek in Nevada. The authors retell the discovery of the land that became the groundbreaking Sand Hills Golf Club in Nebraska and relate the extensive process required to complete the environmentally-sensitive Liberty National in New Jersey. They take readers behind the scenes with Jack Nicklaus at work and at play, analyze what made Donald Ross and A.W. Tillinghast such great architects, offer insights into the little-known design talents of PGA Tour Hall of Famers Tom Kite and Tom Watson and pass along revelations regarding such famous holes as “The Cape” and “The Redan.” They conclude with a short discussion of the impact that technology has had on the world of golf. "Golf's Grand Design" is intended for all who enjoy golf or who, by virtue of these stories, might consider the game. It provides a fresh approach to understanding and appreciating good golf architecture. It will certainly be one of those books with a long shelf life because its content is not trendy but factual. It is the story of American golf and a living description of the creative process of a game that somehow worked its way into our very souls.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781478176381
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Golf's Grand Design," prepared as a companion volume to the PBS documentary of the same name, expands upon the information presented in the television program. Co-authored by Bob Cupp, one of America's leading golf course designers, and Ron Whitten, Golf Digest's longtime senior editor on golf architecture, the book features rare sketches and diagrams of golf holes—some never before published—by 34 past and present golf architects, including Alister MacKenzie, Pete Dye, Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doak, Gil Hanse, Doug Carrick, Steve Smyers and David McLay Kidd. In each chapter, based upon one of the drawings, Cupp and Whitten explore a different facet of the course depicted and present unique perspectives into the craft and art of golf course architecture. These sketches are the vehicles by which design becomes grass. They are not AutoCAD plottings used to clear permits (full of technicalities practically indecipherable by everyday folks), but intimate, immediate and sometimes idiosyncratic streams of consciousness that are handed to a bulldozer operator, along with words of instruction, which become reality; the very crux of golf design. These drawings seldom survive; ending up as grocery lists, note pads or even shelf paper. But if one comes back to the designer after the fact - after the hole has been played and proclaimed fun, the drawings become treasures.Written in a lively conversational format, "Golf's Grand Design" takes readers behind the scenes in the creation of many of America's finest courses, from the modest-budget Bully Pulpit in North Dakota to the mega-budget Shadow Creek in Nevada. The authors retell the discovery of the land that became the groundbreaking Sand Hills Golf Club in Nebraska and relate the extensive process required to complete the environmentally-sensitive Liberty National in New Jersey. They take readers behind the scenes with Jack Nicklaus at work and at play, analyze what made Donald Ross and A.W. Tillinghast such great architects, offer insights into the little-known design talents of PGA Tour Hall of Famers Tom Kite and Tom Watson and pass along revelations regarding such famous holes as “The Cape” and “The Redan.” They conclude with a short discussion of the impact that technology has had on the world of golf. "Golf's Grand Design" is intended for all who enjoy golf or who, by virtue of these stories, might consider the game. It provides a fresh approach to understanding and appreciating good golf architecture. It will certainly be one of those books with a long shelf life because its content is not trendy but factual. It is the story of American golf and a living description of the creative process of a game that somehow worked its way into our very souls.
The Single Plane Golf Swing
Author: Todd Graves
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
ISBN: 161254892X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
“Through this wonderful book, frustrated golfers can learn to swing like Moe [Norman] and improve their games.” —Anthony Robbins, #1 New York Times–bestselling author The mysterious and reclusive genius Moe Norman is acknowledged as the best ball-striker in the history of golf by many of the game’s greats. The Single Plane Golf Swing: Play Better Golf the Moe Norman Way reveals the secrets of the swing that enabled him to hit the ball solidly with unerring accuracy and consistency—every time. Norman’s simple, efficient, and easily understood Single Plane Swing has improved the games of thousands of golfers. Golf professional Todd Graves, known as “Little Moe” and regarded as the world authority on Norman’s swing, comprehensively teaches readers the mechanics, drills, and feelings of the Single Plane Swing that Moe called “The Feeling of Greatness.” Graves shares Norman’s brilliant insights and liberating approach to the game and demonstrates why the conventional “tour” swing is too complex and frustrating for the majority of amateurs. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and written with Tim O’Connor, Norman’s biographer, the book also engagingly tells Norman’s bittersweet life story and explores the teacher-student bond forged between Norman and his protégé Graves. “One of golf’s greatest untold stories, Moe Norman’s life illustrated a simple and powerful truth: greatness is built from practicing the right swing in the right way. In this book, Todd Graves has given us a blueprint for that swing, for those practice habits, and most of all for a process that builds success.” —Dan Coyle, New York Times-bestselling author of The Culture Code
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
ISBN: 161254892X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
“Through this wonderful book, frustrated golfers can learn to swing like Moe [Norman] and improve their games.” —Anthony Robbins, #1 New York Times–bestselling author The mysterious and reclusive genius Moe Norman is acknowledged as the best ball-striker in the history of golf by many of the game’s greats. The Single Plane Golf Swing: Play Better Golf the Moe Norman Way reveals the secrets of the swing that enabled him to hit the ball solidly with unerring accuracy and consistency—every time. Norman’s simple, efficient, and easily understood Single Plane Swing has improved the games of thousands of golfers. Golf professional Todd Graves, known as “Little Moe” and regarded as the world authority on Norman’s swing, comprehensively teaches readers the mechanics, drills, and feelings of the Single Plane Swing that Moe called “The Feeling of Greatness.” Graves shares Norman’s brilliant insights and liberating approach to the game and demonstrates why the conventional “tour” swing is too complex and frustrating for the majority of amateurs. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and written with Tim O’Connor, Norman’s biographer, the book also engagingly tells Norman’s bittersweet life story and explores the teacher-student bond forged between Norman and his protégé Graves. “One of golf’s greatest untold stories, Moe Norman’s life illustrated a simple and powerful truth: greatness is built from practicing the right swing in the right way. In this book, Todd Graves has given us a blueprint for that swing, for those practice habits, and most of all for a process that builds success.” —Dan Coyle, New York Times-bestselling author of The Culture Code
Golf Digest's Places to Play
Author: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher: Fodor's
ISBN: 9780676908794
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Golf Digest's Places to Play is the only guide to the public and resort golf courses of North America and the Islands that you need. Packed with comments and ratings by more than 20,000 avid players, Golf Digest's Places to Play offers complete profiles of 6,000 public and resort courses; addresses, greens fees, pars and yardage; USGA slope and course ratings; caddies, carts, lodging, practice ranges, and course policies, as well as travel tips and candid appraisals by golf experts. Golf Digest's Places to Play makes it easy for you to find what you want, listing courses that offer great value, great service, great pace, and great conditioning, and comes with alphabetical and geographical indexes that make it a cinch to locate courses.
Publisher: Fodor's
ISBN: 9780676908794
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Golf Digest's Places to Play is the only guide to the public and resort golf courses of North America and the Islands that you need. Packed with comments and ratings by more than 20,000 avid players, Golf Digest's Places to Play offers complete profiles of 6,000 public and resort courses; addresses, greens fees, pars and yardage; USGA slope and course ratings; caddies, carts, lodging, practice ranges, and course policies, as well as travel tips and candid appraisals by golf experts. Golf Digest's Places to Play makes it easy for you to find what you want, listing courses that offer great value, great service, great pace, and great conditioning, and comes with alphabetical and geographical indexes that make it a cinch to locate courses.
101 Golf Courses
Author: Geoffrey Giles
Publisher: Parragon Pubishing India
ISBN: 9781445405520
Category : Golf courses
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"101 Golf Courses is a selection of some of the world's finest golf courses: long-established classics, the latest resort courses, intensely private clubs, daily-fee public courses. What they all have in common is that they are great places to play golf. Some have long international championship pedigrees, others will never witness anything bigger than the annual club championship, but each course has fought its way into this book on merit against fierce competition." -- Back cover.
Publisher: Parragon Pubishing India
ISBN: 9781445405520
Category : Golf courses
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"101 Golf Courses is a selection of some of the world's finest golf courses: long-established classics, the latest resort courses, intensely private clubs, daily-fee public courses. What they all have in common is that they are great places to play golf. Some have long international championship pedigrees, others will never witness anything bigger than the annual club championship, but each course has fought its way into this book on merit against fierce competition." -- Back cover.
True Links
Author: George Peper
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579653952
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The most challenging, most invigorating holes a golfer can tackle. In this beautiful book, Peper and Campbell, two writers who know golf inside and out, provide a concise and entertaining tour of the world's best links courses. Full color.
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579653952
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The most challenging, most invigorating holes a golfer can tackle. In this beautiful book, Peper and Campbell, two writers who know golf inside and out, provide a concise and entertaining tour of the world's best links courses. Full color.
101 Essential Tips: Golf
Author: Peter Ballingall
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 075660222X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From choosing the right equipment to perfecting your swing, this useful and authoritative guide covers everything there is to know about golf. Every aspect of the game is covered, in 101 concise and clear units. Advice ranges from details about every aspect of your game—grip, swing, visualizing the course, setting your feet in varied terrain—to broader subjects like proper clothing, scorekeeping, and course etiquette. You’ll learn to act like a pro as well as play like one.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 075660222X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From choosing the right equipment to perfecting your swing, this useful and authoritative guide covers everything there is to know about golf. Every aspect of the game is covered, in 101 concise and clear units. Advice ranges from details about every aspect of your game—grip, swing, visualizing the course, setting your feet in varied terrain—to broader subjects like proper clothing, scorekeeping, and course etiquette. You’ll learn to act like a pro as well as play like one.
1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die
Author: Jeff Barr
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 9781844037414
Category : Golf courses
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Every golfer longs for the opportunity to play as many great golf holes as possible. Fully updated for 2012 it contains over 800 illustrations from international golf courses across the world, 1001 Golf Holes is a truly comprehensive guide to the world's ultimate golf holes. Fact boxes provide instant information on the course, location, architect, designer, length and par of each hole, while longer entries give further insight into playing the hole, the designer's intention and the history of the greats who have played there. Whether you play the game for the strategy, the locations, or simply the fun of it, each hole has a story to tell, and a challenge for golfers to master. Covering 3-par, 4-par and 5-par, the challenging, the scenic, the celebrity-designed, and the most demanding, this magnificent guide will let you discover the 1001 holes you simply must play.
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 9781844037414
Category : Golf courses
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Every golfer longs for the opportunity to play as many great golf holes as possible. Fully updated for 2012 it contains over 800 illustrations from international golf courses across the world, 1001 Golf Holes is a truly comprehensive guide to the world's ultimate golf holes. Fact boxes provide instant information on the course, location, architect, designer, length and par of each hole, while longer entries give further insight into playing the hole, the designer's intention and the history of the greats who have played there. Whether you play the game for the strategy, the locations, or simply the fun of it, each hole has a story to tell, and a challenge for golfers to master. Covering 3-par, 4-par and 5-par, the challenging, the scenic, the celebrity-designed, and the most demanding, this magnificent guide will let you discover the 1001 holes you simply must play.
Golf in Scotland
Author: Allan McAllister Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971032644
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to golf courses tee times, lodging, and transportation in Scotland, including 13 itineraries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971032644
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to golf courses tee times, lodging, and transportation in Scotland, including 13 itineraries.
Golf Course Directory
Author: National Golf Foundation
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577010791
Category : Golf courses
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
The National Golf Foundation, the recognized leader in golf research since 1936, has just published the GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY. Taken from NGF's continually updated database of over 16,000 facilities, THE GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY is a two-volume, 563-page resource tool that provides facility name, address, phone number & key contact personnel. There is also information relative to facility type (e.g. daily fee, municipal or private), size (regulation, par 3 or executive), total number of holes, year opened, & whether the complex includes a practice range. THE GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY is also available in lists & mail labels. The price of the print directory is $199. ISBN 1-57701-079-5. As part of the introduction of this new directory, NGF has also created three additional niche directories from their extensive database: THE DRIVING RANGE DIRECTORY, of 1,700 facilities, Price: $99.00, ISBN 1-57701-080-9; THE PAR-3/EXECUTIVE GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY, listing 1,700 facilities, Price: $99.00, ISBN 1-57701-082-5; THE OFF-COURSE GOLF RETAIL SHOP DIRECTORY, listing 2,000 stores, Price: $99.00, ISBN 1-57701-081-7. The entire family of print directories, mail label services & lists are under the umbrella of NGF's new MarketLinks products.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577010791
Category : Golf courses
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
The National Golf Foundation, the recognized leader in golf research since 1936, has just published the GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY. Taken from NGF's continually updated database of over 16,000 facilities, THE GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY is a two-volume, 563-page resource tool that provides facility name, address, phone number & key contact personnel. There is also information relative to facility type (e.g. daily fee, municipal or private), size (regulation, par 3 or executive), total number of holes, year opened, & whether the complex includes a practice range. THE GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY is also available in lists & mail labels. The price of the print directory is $199. ISBN 1-57701-079-5. As part of the introduction of this new directory, NGF has also created three additional niche directories from their extensive database: THE DRIVING RANGE DIRECTORY, of 1,700 facilities, Price: $99.00, ISBN 1-57701-080-9; THE PAR-3/EXECUTIVE GOLF COURSE DIRECTORY, listing 1,700 facilities, Price: $99.00, ISBN 1-57701-082-5; THE OFF-COURSE GOLF RETAIL SHOP DIRECTORY, listing 2,000 stores, Price: $99.00, ISBN 1-57701-081-7. The entire family of print directories, mail label services & lists are under the umbrella of NGF's new MarketLinks products.