Golf category: 1025 books
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
Its History and Economic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail tells how a bold, imaginative investment by a public employee pension fund turned into a world-class tourist attraction that helped change the image and boost the economy of an entire state. The pension fund was the Retirement Systems of Alabama, and its alternative...
by Robert Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
A masterpiece of architectural literature, The Links is the first book that fully addresses the complexities of the golf course in terms of design, construction, and definition of the game. Written in 1926, Robert Hunter conceptualized The Links as a complete study, a manual for golf course architects...
by Daron F. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Read This Guide To Beaufort Golf Club, Europes Golf Course, Connemara Golf Links, Cork Golf Club, Sligo Golf Club, Irelands Best Kept Secret, and Much More!
by Reed Popovich
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
"Golf Wisdom From Under The Hat" is a humorous, but informative, look at the great game of golf (except when it sucks...)! Written by a retired Navy nuclear submarine officer and first time author - Reed Popovich - it includes instruction, anecdotes, funny stories, jokes and clever illustrations....
by Debbie Waitkus
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
"For all those women who want to play golf but are perhaps too intimidated to start, Get Your Golf On! demystifies the game from tee to green to the 19th hole. This book answers the questions aspiring golfers don't want to or don't know to ask, and it shares core information to prepare golfers...
by Rob Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf is the most comprehensive and up-to-date golf-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This...
by Jerry Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
"Golf is not difficult. It's simply a matter of looking at what the best players do, and building that into your game."
-- Jerry Harmon, author of Jerry's Golf Gems
Jerry's Golf Gems is the remarkable culmination of Jerry Harmon's lifetime of playing and teaching golf. Having played...
Golf Links
Chay Burgess, Francis Ouimet and the Bringing of Golf to America, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book tells the story of the Scottish golf professionals who came to America in 1888 and struggled to earn a living and the respect of the wealthy amateur golf establishment and the United States Golf Association who controlled the sport. Charles “Chay” Burgess—founder of the New England...
The Wicked Game
Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the Business of Modern Golf
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Golf is sometimes referred to as "the wicked game" because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game -- rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever.
When we think about golf -- as it is played at its...
by Arnold Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
There has never been a golfer to rival Arnold Palmer. He's the most aggressive, most exciting player the game has ever known, a dynamo famous for coming from behind to make bold last-minute charges to victory. To the legions of golf fans known around the world as "Arnie's Army," Palmer is a charismatic...
Tommy's Honor
The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of two proud Scotsmen who beat all comers to become the heroes of a golden age—the dawn of professional golf. This essential golf history is now a major motion picture.
Bringing to life golf’s founding father and son, Tommy’s Honor is...
His Father's Son
Earl and Tiger Woods
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
A revealing and intimate biography of the man who influenced Tiger Woods the most-his father, Earl Woods
Tiger Woods has been with us since he appeared on "The Mike Douglas Show" as a two-year-old, hitting golf balls for Bob Hope. In the three decades since, he established himself...
The War by the Shore
The Incomparable Drama of the 1991 Ryder Cup
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The true story of the dramatic 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island, which changed the competition in golf forever.
The 1991 Ryder Cup began in 1985. Up to then, the biennial match between all-star teams of golf professionals from America and Europe was more ceremonial exhibition than real competition,...
Jenkins at the Majors
Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Legendary sports writer Dan Jenkins delivers a golf history lesson that is unrivaled in its scope and style.
In this seminal collection, Dan Jenkins has selected the funniest and most riveting stories from his epic career as a writer for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest, where his wry reportage...