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Product Description: Literally hundreds of classic courses from golf’s pre-World War II Golden Age have vanished over the years, including nearly 200 designed by legendary architects like Donald Ross, A.W. Tillinghast and Dr. Alister MacKenzie. In this sister volume to his award-winning book, The Missing Links, historian Daniel Wexler profiles more than 70 of the ver y best courses and holes in America, bringing them back to life with detailed histories, color maps and period photographs.
Within Lost Links, the reader can walk William Flynn’s sand-strewn North course at Boca Raton, skirt towering Pacific cliffs at Billy Bell’s mysterious Royal Palms, retrace Seth Raynor’s footsteps at the Greenbrier and revisit George Thomas’s legendary lost holes at La Cumbre.
Amazon.com: Nothing lasts forever. Missing Links is a testament to how ephemeral even great golf courses designed by master architects can be. It's enough to break a hacker's heart.
In this lovely homage to what once was, Daniel Wexler identifies 47 historically significant pre-World War II courses lost largely to the needs of post-World War II development, and then proceeds to tee up their stories. Some of the courses loom as mythically large as Atlantis--Charles Blair Macdonald's Lido Golf Club on Long Island is still considered one of the most innovative designs ever, and A.W. Tillinghast's Fresh Meadow Country Club not only hosted the first PGA Championship, it boasted Gene Sarazen as head pro. Each of the lost gems is presented with a history filled with anecdotes, a complete diagram of the layout, a scorecard, and as many vintage photos as Wexler could fit. Most intriguing, Wexler also projects how each course might measure up today. Lido, insists Wexler, would still have golf traditionalists salivating--it would be, he surmises, "one of America's best... Every bit as good today as the day it was born." Amazingly, Missing Links evocatively extols dozens more nearly as worthy. --Jeff Silverman
Product Description: In Golf Weekends, Golf Digest staff writers give you an insider's look at more than 650 great courses within a day's drive of 15 of the largest American cities. For every course you'll know the best times to visit, green fee, par, yardage, USGA rating, star ratings from Golf Digest's readers, and course policies.
Course charts and maps help you find your place to play that much quicker. And if you want golfer-friendly restaurants and hotels near the links, Fodor's gives you plenty of choices.
Whether you're home, away on business, or simply stranded somewhere that cries out for a getaway, consider a golf weekend: you're a lot closer to the green than you think.
Covers more than 650 golf courses near: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis & St. Paul, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C.
Bill Spiller was forty-seven when he was forced by desperate finances to caddie at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles. One day Spiller was caddying for a member who became outraged by Spiller’s stories of inequities and suffering during his golfing career. The golfer urged Spiller to write California’s attorney general, who later ordered the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) to cease its discrimination. In 1961 the “Caucasian race” clause was deleted from the PGA constitution. This was an historic decision that gave black golfers the chance to compete at the highest level in the sport.
Golf has long been the domain of white men. During the twentieth century, however, African American pioneers such as Lee Elder, Howard Wheeler, and Charlie Sifford broke down the barriers for black golfers who wanted to play, and win, as equals with white golfers. A Course of Their Own looks at golf from the perspectives of these men, who had courage as well as remarkable skills. It tells the stories of their struggles, their bravery, and their passion for the game and puts their lives and contributions into historical perspective.
Amazon.com: Augusta, Cypress Point, Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Seminole--the words are magical for golfers. Even if you'll never be able to play a round at Pine Valley, The Great Golf Courses of America will give you a taste of the good life. The 38 courses included in the book are scattered across the United States, from Oak Hill in Rochester, New York, to Spyglass Hill in Pebble Beach, California, and from Prairie Dunes in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Princeville Resort on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Each profile features color photos, maps of the overall layout, a brief history of the course, and stories about the golfers who've been fortunate enough to play there--from unlucky Porky Oliver, knocking five consecutive balls into the Pacific on the 16th hole at Cypress Point to score a 13-over-par 16, to Raymond Floyd scoring nine threes in a row, from the 6th hole to the 14th, to eventually score a 63 during the first round of the 1982 PGA Championship. This will make a handsome addition to any duffer's coffee table--but it's also guaranteed to make readers turn green with envy. --M. Stein
Product Description: This fact-packed book is the only one available that provides golfers with information about public golf courses in every one of the fifty states, as well as Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. Included is a detailed description of each course, listing individual holes, their length and yardage, the course sloperating, course architects, phone and fax numbers, tee-time reservation policy, course hours and earliest tee-off, green and cart fees, credit cards accepted, playing season, golf packages, facilities (snack bar, club repair, practice green, driving range, locker room, etc.), places to stay nearby, local attractions (including those that would appeal to children), driving directions and the closest commercial airport -- in short, everything the itinerant golfer needs to know.The Best Public Golf Courses in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico is a unique and invaluable bible for every devotee of the game.
