The author’s inner vision combined with a grasp of the forms and settings of nature, give his golf courses a universal appeal.Depending on your handicap, the name Tom Fazio either strikes fear in your heart or sets your blood rising to the challenge. One of the most celebrated course designers of the past three decades, Fazio has left his imprint on such showcase tracks as Kiawah Island Club, Grayhawk, Butler National, Barton Creek, Hartefeld National, and the TPC at Myrtle Beach. His beautifully illustrated Golf Course Designs opens a window onto the thinking that went into those and other courses–and understanding a designer’s intentions is as powerful a weapon as any club in the bag. Using his own designs as his laboratory, Fazio, through text and pictures, unveils the mystery of his methods and the ways in which technology has affected changes in golf course architecture through the 20th century. As difficult as Fazio’s courses can play, he emphasizes that h
Ireland is Europe’s hottest golfing destination and one of the most popular golf venues for Americans eager to sample the emerald links. In his third edition, Armstrong revisits old courses that have undergone revision or expansion and uncovers the best of Ireland’s new golf clubs. He also reviews several new hotels and restaurants that cater to golfers and are near some of Ireland’s finest fairways. Courses designed by such golf greats as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tom Watson are included.
David Leadbetter–who has taught some of the brightest stars in golf, including Nick Price, Ernie Els, Charles Howell III, and Michelle Wie–is known and admired for his superclear, superefficient style. His tips are enjoyed throughout the golf world (and are the subject of his very popular monthly column in Golf Digest magazine).
Truly representing the “best of the best,” Leadbetter’s Quick Tips encapsulates all the time-tested, straightforward advice that has long been available to the pros and avid golfers. Leadbetter, the master teacher, demonstrates invaluable tips for:
• Longer and straighter drives • Consistency from the fairway • More accurate iron play • Better bunker shots • Making more putts
With lavish yet clearly presented photographs and illustrations, Leadbetter’s Quick Tips is the one book any golfer will want to have.
Photographer David Cannon began his career in sports photography twenty-five years ago and is considered the premier golf photographer in the world. Having played at more than seven hundred golf courses in over fifty countries, Cannon photographs with a true golfer’s eye, offering an extraordinary window into some of the world’s most celebrated courses—with more than 40 in North America, dozens in Asia and the South Pacific, and several in both Africa and the Middle East. Savor a view from the 11th hole of the incomparable and historic St. Andrews’s Old Course bathed in golden afternoon light; glimpse giraffes and elephants from any green at Leopard Creek, South Africa; vicariously experience Pirate’s Plank, the harrowing 15th hole at Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand, which is set at the very end of the clifftop fairway surrounded by dramatic 500-foot drops to the ocean; and take in the serene sea view from the signature 18th hole of the very private Seminole Golf Course in Florida. Golf
Tiger Woods not happy about former coach's book about him
… that Tiger knows golf won't be the only thing in the book, and if that's the case, it probably is the wrong thing to do. No matter how bad things got between coach and student, I just don't see the point of burning that bridge for a best-seller, … Read more on Yahoo! Sports (blog)
This vid belongs to the series of the Forgotten Great Swings that shows my personal choice of biokinetically sound motions that are worth learning from. From Wikipedia: Thomas Dickson Armour (September 24, 1894 — September 11, 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh. During his service in World War I, Armour rose from a private to Staff Major in the Tank Corps. His conduct earned him an audience with George V. However, he lost his sight to a mustard gas explosion and surgeons had to add a metal plate to his head and left arm. During his convalescence, he regained the sight of his right eye and took to golfing. Armour won the French Amateur tournament in 1920. He moved to the United States and met Walter Hagen, who gave him a job as secretary of the Westchester-Biltmore Club. He became a US citizen at this time. In 1924 Armour became a professional golfer. Armour won the 1927 US Open, 1930 PGA Championship, and the 1931 Open Championship. His 1930 campaign was overshadowed by Bobby Jones’ Grand Slam, and Armour seems to have been overlooked. At the Shawnee Open in 1927, Armour shot the first ever “Archaeopteryx” (15 or more over par) when he shot a 23 on a par 5, for 18-over par. This still stands as the highest score on one hole in PGA history. This historic performance happened just one week after winning the US Open. Armour … Video Rating: 5 / 5
Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die is the sixth of Chris Santella’s popular Fifty Places” books (more than 250,000 copies in print), and the first to return to golfthe series’ most popular subject. In this new book Santella interviews 50 luminaries in the golf world about their favorite courses and experiences. Experts range from seasoned touring professionals (Amy Alcott, Fred Funk) to journalists and photographers (James Dodson, Brian Morgan) to golf course architects (Robert von Hagge, Bob Harrison) to travel specialists (Gordon Dalgleish, Mike Lardner). Old Country favorites like Royal Dornoch and Machrihanish in Scotland are featured, but so are venues far off the linksters’ beaten path, like Nirwana, Bali, where the course runs beside rice paddies in the shadow of ancient temples, and China’s Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, where players tee off at 10,000 feet, at the base of the Himalayas. More than 40 spectacular photos capture the allure of these unforg
Driving the golf ball further isn’t about how hard you are swinging the club. There are so many factors that could be causing you not to have the ability to get the ball down the fairway. You might have a curve in the ball and you cannot figure out how to straighten out the ball. Could you imagine if you could just straighten out the shot how far the ball really would travel?
You Can Add More Distance to Your Golf Strokes…
Adding more distance to your shots means less par and a better game. No one wants to end up in the rough or the sand every time they play. This will only cause you not to want to play the game. you can hit the ball properly and the problem may not even be in the way you are hitting the ball. You might have the perfect swing and still cannot drive the ball as far down the fairway as you would like to do.
It isn’t about muscle power to get the ball down the fairway. There are plenty of skinny guys nailing the golf ball
Now in paperback, the Los Angeles Times bestseller that takes a riveting look at the life and times of golf legend Bobby JonesIn the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports in the summer of 1930. Bobby Jones, a 28-year-old amateur golfer, mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, he conquered the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the United States Open, and finally the United States Amateur Championship, an achievement so extraordinary that writers dubbed it the Grand Slam. No one has ever repeated it.Mark Frost uses a wealth of original research to provide an unprecedented intimate portrait of golf great Bobby Jones. In the tradition of The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam blends social history with sports biography, captivating the imagination and engaging the reader. The Grand Slam is a biography not to be missed.
Michael G. Miller utilizes his past experience as a golf professional and his talents as a landscape artist to depict some of the great holes by leading golf architects of different time periods. The paintings are largely based on b/w photos of each period. Essayist Geoff Shakleford provides a riveting description of each landscape by Miller.
“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 lessons from veteran golf champion and instructor Dave Stockton. As a top coach, Stockton has taught a long list of pro players-including Annika Sorenstam, Yani Tseng (winner of four LPGA tournaments), Adam Scott (Texas Open champion), Hunter Mahan (Phoenix Open champion), and Morgan Pressel (World Ladies Championship of Japan winner)-the putting strategies that finessed their game.Stockton’s breakthrough concept is that every player has their own Signature Stroke, which is unconscious. Good putting comes from the mind, Stockton says, not from a series of stiff mechanical positions. With visualization, the right frame of mind, an efficient pre-putt routine, and connection to the individual i
Seaside links courses offer golfers unmatched challenges and enchanting scenery. And while they can be found in many parts of the world, the links of the British Isles are the most famous in their class. Donald Steel takes readers on a tour of seventy-five spectacular greens along windswept beaches and sheer cliffs of Britain and Ireland. These links prove true the old belief that courses are for expanding a player’s abilities, rather than defining and confining them as in so many other sports. Steel offers up destinations like St. Andrews, Royal St. George’s, and Formby, Ballybunion, and Muirfield among the seaside playing fields that have been the home to championship tournaments and amateur aspirations. With scorecards, maps, color photos, and helpful hints for most holes, this guide is an essential reference tool for the traveling golfer. It tells the history of the courses it covers and provides information on the designers who built them and the pros who have set their reco
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