Australia's Finest Golf Courses

Australia's Finest Golf Courses
Author: Darius Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2012
Genre: Golf courses
ISBN: 9781742572338

From professionals and dedicated amateurs to weekend hackers and armchair golfers, Australia's Finest Golf Courses is a book for anyone who has ever dreamt of playing the best golf courses Australia has to offer.Australia's Finest Golf Courses is a magnificent tour through Australia's best golf courses, from the timeless classics at Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath and Royal Adelaide to the modern masterpieces at The National, Kennedy Bay and The Capital. There is also a rare and fascinating look at the country's most exclusive golf course, Ellerston, designed by Greg Norman and located on the Packer family estate in the New South Wales Upper Hunter Valley. The book presents state-by-state reviews of our finest courses, covering both history and design, and accompanied by superb photography and course comments from leading designers including Greg Norman, Peter Thomson, Ross Watson, Michael Clayton, Tony Cashmore and Michael Wolveridge. The book also includes a foreword by 1991 British Open champion Ian Baker-Finch and a ratings section that details the best golf holes and courses, both classic and modern. Darius Oliver has researched (and played) each course reviewed in the book and provides an insider's guide to more than 60 of the country's best public and private courses. From professionals and dedicated amateurs to weekend hackers and armchair golfers, Australia's Finest Golf Courses is a book for anyone who has ever dreamed of playing the best golf courses Australia has to offer.

Planet Golf

Planet Golf
Author: Darius Oliver
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780810994034

A breathtaking tour around more than 130 of the world?s finest golf courses, this exciting book focuses on courses outside the United States. Many fabulous courses will be new to the American reader, and are featured in magnificent photographs made especially for this book.

Belt Collins

Belt Collins
Author: Belt Collins Hawaii (Firm)
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781876907310

During the firm's 50 years of creating development projects, from Hawaii to Bali, Belt Collins, with its talented landscape architects, environmental specialists, physical planners and civil engineers, has served three masters: the land, the owners and the users - with great skill and sensitivity. Featured projects include a selection of resorts in Waikiki and elsewhere in Hawaii; destination resorts in the Asia/Pacific region; a number of Shangri-La Hotels in Asia; and recreational developments in Hawaii, Australia and Asia.

Golf Business and Management

Golf Business and Management
Author: Tim Breitbarth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317351584

Golf is big business around the world. With high profile series such as the PGA, LPGA and European tours to the re-introduction of golf to the Olympics at Rio 2016, golf occupies a prominent place in the global sport community. This is the first book to introduce the fundamentals of golf business and management from a truly international perspective, covering key topics such as media, club management, sponsorship and retail, at elite and non-elite levels. With sections exploring the development of golf on every continent, including North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this book presents the latest thinking on current issues in golf, ranging from sustainability and innovation to global governance. Each chapter incorporates helpful features for students including learning objectives, discussion questions, guides to further reading, recommended websites and insights from industry voices. This book is essential reading for students of any golf-related degree course or professional accreditation programme, and will also be of interest to those studying or working in sport business, sport management and sport tourism. Underpinned by up-to-date literature, golf researchers will also find the book a useful starting point.

Golf Tourism

Golf Tourism
Author: Simon Hudson
Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1908999950

Golf continues to represent the largest sports-related travel market valued at £30 billion with over 50 million golf tourists travelling the world to play on some of the estimated 40,000 courses. Golf Tourism is the leading text for both students and practitioners and the completely updated and revised new edition discusses the latest issues

National Geographic Traveler: Australia, 6th Edition

National Geographic Traveler: Australia, 6th Edition
Author: Roff Martin Smith
Publisher: National Geographic Traveler
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: TRAVEL
ISBN: 885441512X

From famous Bondi beach in Sydney to massive Ayers Rock in the remote desert outback, from rough-and-tumble gold-mining towns in Australia's Far West to the incredible underwater vistas of the Great Barrier Reef, this book guides you through the varied land - and cityscapes that are modern Australia.

Asian Sport Celebrity

Asian Sport Celebrity
Author: Koji Kobayashi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1000372200

What does the ‘Asian’ mean in Asian sport celebrity? With a collection of nine essays on Asian sport celebrities variously associated with Australia, Belgium, China, Japan, New Zealand, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-faceted construction of what it means to be Asian from the perspectives of race, ethnicity and regionality. Sport celebrity, as a modern invention, is disseminated from the West to the rest of the globe including Asia, and so are its functions of symbolizing particular values, desires and personalities idolized and idealized within their respective societies. While Asian athletes were historically depicted as weak, fragile and biologically ‘unsuited’ to modern sport, the emergence of more than a few world-class Asian athletes in the twenty-first century demands an in-depth inquiry into the relationship between sport celebrity and the representation of Asia. This book is therefore essential for those interested in a range of socio-cultural issues—including globalization, transnationalism, migration, modernity, (post-)coloniality, gender politics, spectacle, citizenship, Orientalism, and nationalism—within and beyond Asia. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.