Golf category: 1025 books

The 1960 U.S. Open Golf Championship played at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado, remains perhaps the most dramatic, competitive, and passionate of all Open championships. In 1960 the young lions of the game were eager to reach the top tier occupied by venerable players such as Ben Hogan...

Expressing the passion felt for golf using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the sport explores immortal icons in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most...

With training tips, exercises, and injury remedies, this is a book that every golfer and coach should have! There are few things more satisfying than a great round of golf. But the joy and thrill of golf are often marred by injuries that can bother you for weeks and ruin your game. A strong,...

East Lake Golf Club was heralded as "one of the finest in the United States" when its first holes were completed in 1907. Bobby Jones called East Lake his home course, as did Alexa Stirling, Watts Gunn, and Charlie Yates. It flourished in the early 1900s as the Atlanta Athletic Club's country club....

Perfect golf trivia book to dip in to—would make a great gift. A light-hearted book covering all you need to know, and a lot you will be surprised to know, about the sport. Experienced writer with a number of successful books to his credit. Golf is one of the most popular games in the world. That...

In 2010, the Ryder Cup is staged in Wales for the first time. Celtic Manor at Newport hosts the prestigious championship. Wales has over 170 golf courses, many in the most beautiful of landscapes, from Anglesey to Monmouthshire, with a series of links courses along the coast of west Wales. Famous...

Golf is at last being re-introduced into the Olympic programme, and with information taken from the JWB Historical Library, compiled over four decades, this publication commemorates and reviews the first ever Olympic golf match played in Paris on 2 October 1900. The twelve prominent men who took part...

For many golfers, the innocent thrill of striking a drive clearly, avoiding a deep bunker, or holing out an unlikely putt is all they need to make a round (or a whole year) of golf memorable. But there’s an obsessed subculture of modern players in search of something more. They’ve rediscovered...

Twists & turns on the world’s roads to oil and golf .... this book takes you there! • World cultures; people and places tourists do not typically see • Oil business risk and wildcat wells • Rebels, jungle, desert and offshore • Golf in strange places; even if your caddy speaks no English...

This is the story of a journey to Southern California, home of the American Dream, in search of fame and fortune to be achieved by playing golf. An Australian couple of mixed German-Chinese origin with their six-year old son Maximilian leave their settled life in Sydney to move to California....

According to the legendary Sam Snead, golf is the most frustrating sport of all. "One day you are up on Cloud Nine and the next day you couldn't scratch a whale's belly," he once famously said. Like many of us who play the game, he understood that few sports offer more opportunity to make...

Playing Golf is a rewarding game of skill that must, somehow, be learned. GOLF: LEARN TO PLAY AND HAVE FUN is a book that can get you to the top of your game; wherever it may take you. The doors of learning and playing golf are always open for all types of players - Old, Young, Male, Female, Handicapped,...

Golf first came to Georgia in the late eighteenth century when a group of avid golfers banded together to form a club in Savannah. By the end of the nineteenth century, when the game had become popular, the state developed courses from border to border. More than four hundred courses now dot the landscape...

This book is the story of a young man and his guided journey to learning, and through to implementing, the principle that the destination of the golf clubhead is of far more importance than its journey. Guided every step of the way by his mentor, the 'Old Man', whose teachings and approach to golf are...