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Author : Rick Shefchik
Release : 2012
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Fields to Fairways by : Rick Shefchik
Download or read book From Fields to Fairways written by Rick Shefchik. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of Minnesota's celebrated golf clubs and courses, including rarely seen photographs and long-lost details about the game's most famous architects
Author : Bradley S. Klein
Release : 2020-04-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 842/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wide Open Fairways by : Bradley S. Klein
Download or read book Wide Open Fairways written by Bradley S. Klein. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In golf the playing field is also landscape, where nature and the shaping of it conspire to test athletic prowess. As golf courses move away from the "big business, pristine lawn" approach of recent times, Bradley S. Klein, a leading expert on golf course design and economics, finds much to contemplate, and much to report, in the way these wide-open spaces function as landscapes that inspire us, stimulate our senses, and reveal the special nature of particular places. A meditation on what makes golf courses compelling landscapes, this is also a personal memoir that follows Klein's own unique journey across the golfing terrain, from the Bronx and Long Island suburbia to the American prairie and the Pacific Northwest. Whether discussing Robert Moses and Donald Trump and the making of New York City, or the role of golf in the development of the atomic bomb, or the relevance of Willa Cather to how the game has taken hold in the Nebraska Sandhills, Klein is always looking for the freedom and the meaning of golf's wide-open spaces. And as he searches, he offers a deeply informed and absorbing view of golf courses as cultural markers, linking the game to larger issues of land use, ecology, design, and imagination. Purchase the audio edition.
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Release : 2011-03-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 390/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Golf Courses by :
Download or read book Golf Courses written by . This book was released on 2011-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer David Cannon began his career in sports photography twenty-five years ago and is considered the premier golf photographer in the world. Having played at more than seven hundred golf courses in over fifty countries, Cannon photographs with a true golfer's eye, offering an extraordinary window into some of the world's most celebrated courses—with more than 40 in North America, dozens in Asia and the South Pacific, and several in both Africa and the Middle East. Savor a view from the 11th hole of the incomparable and historic St. Andrews's Old Course bathed in golden afternoon light; glimpse giraffes and elephants from any green at Leopard Creek, South Africa; vicariously experience Pirate's Plank, the harrowing 15th hole at Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand, which is set at the very end of the clifftop fairway surrounded by dramatic 500-foot drops to the ocean; and take in the serene sea view from the signature 18th hole of the very private Seminole Golf Course in Florida. Golf Courses stunningly captures the singular genius and beauty of golf courses. It is a comprehensive collection of the world's best courses by revered designers including Donald Ross, Pete Dye, and Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and such new talent as Steve Smyers and Tom Doak, among many others—all of whom skillfully orchestrate the exceptional union of nature and course design on five continents. This deluxe, limited-edition volume features over two hundred sumptuous color photographs of courses, some of which have never been photographed or published previously, in full spreads and gatefolds—some measuring over five feet in length—and includes a numbered print signed by the photographer. Golf Courses: Fairways of the World will be strictly limited to 5,000 copies.
Author : Charles Slack
Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 674/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blue Fairways by : Charles Slack
Download or read book Blue Fairways written by Charles Slack. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A duffer's odyssey on the public links from Maine to Key West. A golfing everyman takes us on a pilgrimage, playing public golf courses along Route 1 down the east coast of the United States. From his first round with French-Canadian partners amidst the potato fields of northern Maine to his final round against a setting tropical sun in Key West, Charlie Slack chronicles the best and worst of the public-golf experience. Each round introduces a new set of partners and opens a window onto a new locale, whether it's the manicured suburbs of Connecticut, the worn-down urban centers of the Northeast Corridor, or the sun-drenched golfing havens of the South. Here in the land of new beginnings, Charlie Slack lives out every golfer's fantasy, a fresh start and a pristine fairway each and every morning. An utterly charming tale of a quintessentially American journey of discovery.
Author : Matthew E. Adams
Release : 2006
Genre : Golf
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 951/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fairways of Life by : Matthew E. Adams
Download or read book Fairways of Life written by Matthew E. Adams. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times best-selling coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul of America and Golf Channel Personality Matthew E. Adams, Fairways of Life uses the game of golf as a basis for discovery on how to have the parts of your life that you love without the parts that you despise. Great stories of inspiration from chanpions of the game illustrate their accomplishments and their lessons of discipline, hard work, and perspective. Fairways of Life is a book about how to play better life, not better golf.
