Driving the Green

Driving the Green
Author: John Strawn
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780060921620

A unique and enthralling story that describes how Ironhorse, a new Florida golf course in West Palm Beach, was created from bare earth to finished greens and fairways. "A must-read . . . a story rich with conflict and, ultimately, triumph".--Golfweek.

Long Island Golf

Long Island Golf
Author: Phil Carlucci
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1439651663

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 Courses

Golf Courses
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0789322390

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.

Golf Greens

Golf Greens
Author: Green Golf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1993-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780963613394

Wide Open Fairways

Wide Open Fairways
Author: Bradley S. Klein
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1496209842

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.

Golf Courses of the PGA Tour

Golf Courses of the PGA Tour
Author: George Peper
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780810949508

As lush as the gorgeously landscaped courses it covers, this completely new edition, lavishly illustrated with 250 full-color photographs, takes readers on a highly entertaining tour of the 2005 PGA Tour. In addition to an anecdotal history of each tournament, the authorQa noted authority who was editor-in-chief of "Golf Magazine" for 25 yearsQalso provides valuable tips on how to play certain shots. 0-8109-4950-4$50.00 / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.