Golf category: 1025 books
A Game For Life
Golf's Rules and Rewards
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
In A Game for Life: Golf's Rules & Rewards, Gene Westmoreland imparts his wisdom and experience on how golf's treasures lie well beyond the score. In this collection of essays, Westmoreland enlivens the often-complex rules of golf through engaging, memorable and often humorous stories and anecdotes...
by Thomas J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Greg Norman does it. Tiger Woods does it. Annika Sorenstam does it. Now you can, too. In 1 Step to Perfect Putting, learn the secret of all great putters.
Improving your putting stroke is usually thought of as a complex task. Most golfers feel they need to make multiple changes if they are...
by Thomas J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Bubba Watson does it. Tiger Woods does it. Jack Nicklaus does it. Now you can, too. In 1 Step to Hitting it Long, learn the secret to the swing that will vastly increase your distance.Hitting the ball long is usually thought of as a complex task. Most golfers feel they need to make multiple...
Unplayable Lies
(The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments--and its most absurd. Filled...
18 Holes with Bing
Golf, Life, and Lessons from Dad
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In this love letter to his father, former professional golfer Nathaniel Crosby shares memories of Bing Crosby on the golf course, and the lessons he taught him about the game and about life. With a Foreword by Jack Nicklaus.
“Bing Crosby was a great ambassador for our game, as well as a great...
Deals on the Green
Lessons on Business and Golf from America's Top Executives
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
No matter how sophisticated the tools become-the e-mails and teleconferencing, the BlackBerries and PowerPoints-golf remains the true communications hub of American business
In the history of American business there have been more deals consummated on the golf course than in any boardroom or...
The Range Bucket List
The Golf Adventure of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Beloved, award-winning golf writer James Dodson, author of Final Rounds and American Triumvirate, shares his funny, intimate, nostalgic journey of self and sport in his golfing “bucket list.”
Many years ago, when James Dodson was thirteen years old, he wrote a list titled “Things to Do...
The Complete Hogan
A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf's Greatest Swing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Top golfing instructor Jim McLean uses rare film footage of Ben Hogan to break down the greatest swing of all time
Golf legend Ben Hogan had the perfect golf swing, but how exactly it worked has long been a mystery?until now. Using footage from three never-before analyzed films of Hogan at...
And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend
Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
ANOTHER ROUND OF INSPIRATION AND INSTRUCTION
When Harvey Penick signed copies of his now classic first book, Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, Bud Shrake, his coauthor, noticed that he often inscribed them with the line "To my fried and pupil." When Shrake asked him why, Penick replied "Well,...
Bud, Sweat, And Tees
Hootie, Martha, and the Masters of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The PGA Tour is the most interesting subculture in sports, though you wouldn't know it from most golf books. The Tour is home to rowdy, randy young men often drunk with money and fame; fueled by alcohol and adrenaline, they barnstorm from town to town like rock stars, with all the attendant excesses....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This book is a comprehensive collection of stories, each of which captures a different facet of the game of golf. Some of the best golfers in the history of the sport as well as those who have established themselves as aficionados through their writing or commentary all offer their stories from both...
by Garden G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The game of golf consists in playing a ball, in as few strokes as possible, from certain starting places, called teeing-grounds, with various clubs, suited to the nature of the stroke, into a succession of holes cut in the ground at varying distances.
Golf may be played on any park or common,...
by P. A. Vaile, Horace G. Hutchinson, Henry Leach
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This volume, the third in AfterMath’s sports nostalgia series, contains three collections of essays on golf by P.A. Vaile, Horace G. Hutchinson, and Henry Leach. The essays reflect their views of golf in both the United Kingdom and internationally in the early twentieth century. While...
How to Master a Great Golf Swing
Fifteen Fundamentals to Build a Great Swing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
As millions of golfers will attest, mastering a strong, consistent, and accurate golf swing is no easy feat. Yet, as leading golf-swing analyst Maxine Van Evera Lupo shows in this revolutionary book, any golfer, by focusing on the 15 fundamentals and following the step-by-step instruction for each,...