Golf category: 1025 books
The Slam
Bobby Jones and the Price of Glory
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
An unlikely champion. An unprecedented accomplishment. A powerful story of a man on the verge of becoming a legend—at a time when the nation needed every hero it could get. In the 1930s, Bobby Jones did what no golfer had done before—and what no golfer has done since—he won all four major...
The Legend of Bagger Vance
A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game—Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen—meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete—a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with...
Unconscious Putting
Dave Stockton's Guide to Unlocking Your Signature Stroke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"The Pro Tours' Hottest Coach" (Golf Digest) reveals the secrets that helped Phil Mickelson win the 2010 Masters and can utterly transform every player's game.
When a resurgent Phil Mickelson won the Tour Championship in September 2009, he was quick to credit a series of simple putting...
by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
“A confident and substantial book...It has torque and velocity...It makes a sweet sound, like a well-struck golf ball. I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure. It’s a big American story.” —*The New York Times***
Based on years of reporting and...
The Passion of Tiger Woods
An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made him a global brand and the world’s richest athlete. The child of a multiracial marriage, Woods and his blond, blue-eyed wife, Elin Nordegren, seemed to represent a new postracial America....
by Peter Lightbown, Cecilia Croaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Simple ways of developing an effective, natural putting stroke, free of anxiety and tension.In Golf's Simple Putting Secrets you will learn how to have a predictable putting stroke, how to judge distance and how to develop touch.
It's All About Impact
The Winners of Over 100 Majors Prove It
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Do you want to make the ball "sizzle" off your clubface? The theory in this book originates from the belief that there are multiple ways to swing a golf club - just look at the best golfers of all time. Yet, there is only one way to strike a golf ball correctly. This book will teach you how to do that....
The Scorecard Always Lies
A Year Behind the Scenes on the PGA Tour
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
As Tiger Woods broke down in tears on the 18th green at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, legions of spectators strained their eyes to read the emotion on his face. Like the millions watching on television, they knew that Tiger had just won the British Open, and that his father had recently died. Beyond...
by Peter Lightbown
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
If you want a lower handicap, Golf's Simple Secrets - The Short Game, is the book that shows you the secrets of the pros. You will learn one basic action to use for pitching, bunker shots and the chip shot. You will be surprised how simple and effective this action is to use and how by using it you...
Four Days in July
Tom Watson, the 2009 Open Championship, and a Tournament for the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In July 2009, the sports world watched breathlessly as Watson, just shy of his sixtieth birthday and twenty-six years after his last Open title, battled Father Time through four amazing rounds at Turnberry. In Four Days in July, award-winning golf writer and commentator Jim Huber takes the reader...
by Justin Exner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Who needs an excuse to play golf? But just in case, this book will get you out on the course where you belong!
by RD Richley
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
A new approach to the great game of golf. Saturday/Sunday golfers, break a score of ninety every time. Remove the useless clutter from your bag and hit to the vicinity of your target with confidence.
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Back in 1996, the world of golf began to evolve in the minds of Americans from a game of rich corporate executives and board retirees to something more palatable to a wider audience. Where Tiger Woods began to redraw the boundaries, young Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy pushes it even further....
Arnie and Jack
Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Surprisingly, one of sport’s most contentious, complex, and defining clashes played out not in the boxing ring or at the line of scrimmage but on the genteel green fairways of the world’s finest golf courses. Arnie and Jack. Palmer and Nicklaus. Their fifty-year duel, in both the clubhouse and...