Author: Charles PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The American Golfer is a selection of 75 of the best golf articles from Condé Nast's American Golfer magazine.
The American Golfer
Author: Charles PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The American Golfer is a selection of 75 of the best golf articles from Condé Nast's American Golfer magazine.
The American Golfer
Author: A Course Called America
Author: Tom CoynePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982128062
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In 'A Course Called America', Tom Coyne plays his way across the United States in search of the great American golf course. Packed with fascinating tales from American golf history, comic road misadventures, illuminating insight into course design, and many a memorable round with local golfers, this book is an epic narrative travelogue brimming with heart and soul.
The Walter Hagen Story by The Haig, Himself
Author: Walter HagenPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789122317
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“I never wanted to be a millionaire—I just wanted to live like one...”—Walter Hagen THIS IS Walter Hagen’s own story of the two decades when he ruled the golfing world as King. Hagen not only won a major tournament every year for twenty years—a record never even approached by any other golfer—but his personality dominated the game over that period. Before he came along, professional golfers had the status of hired hands. The Haig was the man who crashed the front door of the clubhouses, and he brought along with him the entire fraternity of golf professionals. He was a magnificent showman and, in addition to changing the social standing of the golf pro, his competitive skill and flamboyant character built up public in interest in golf throughout the world. The result was perhaps best expressed in Gene Sarazen’s own memoirs when he said, “All the professionals who have a chance to go after the big money today should say silent thanks to Walter Hagen each time they stretch a check between their fingers. It was Walter Hagen who made professional golf what it is.” The picture of sartorial elegance, he became the fashion plate that others copied for years. He was the honoured guest of emperors and the tutor and personal friend of the young Edward, then Prince of Wales. An idol both at home and abroad (he won the U.S. Open twice, made the P.G.A. Championship almost his exclusive personal property through the twenties, and won the British Open four times), he toured the world with Joe Kirkwood as the most outstanding ambassador of good will that golf ever produced. All this and much more is set down in this book in a style which has the same swashbuckling flavour as characterized his long playing career.
Game of Privilege
Author: Lane DemasPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469634236
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA)--a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975. Lane Demas charts how African Americans nationwide organized social campaigns, filed lawsuits, and went to jail in order to desegregate courses; he also provides dramatic stories of golfers who boldly confronted wider segregation more broadly in their local communities. As national civil rights organizations debated golf’s symbolism and whether or not to pursue the game’s integration, black players and caddies took matters into their own hands and helped shape its subculture, while UGA participants forged one of the most durable black sporting organizations in American history as they fought to join the white Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA). From George F. Grant’s invention of the golf tee in 1899 to the dominance of superstar Tiger Woods in the 1990s, this revelatory and comprehensive work challenges stereotypes and indeed the fundamental story of race and golf in American culture.
The American Golfer's Guide
Author: Hubert PedroliPublisher: Turner Publications Incorporated
ISBN: 9781570363016
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Over 500 of the best American golf courses open to the public.
The American Golfer
Author: Anthony RobinsonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781439269701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Charlie Kingston, an American PGA tour player suffering personal and professional losses at home, goes to the village in Ireland where his great-grandmother was born, for a rest and change of pace. Charlie falls in love with Lora, a beautiful Irish woman whose husband, a wealthy Brit, owns an estate with its own ultra-private golf course. The simmering politics of Ireland, political intrigue on the local level, and personal revelations, all act to change the direction of Charlie's life. There is plenty of golf in the novel, but one need not be a player or lover of the game to embrace The American Golfer.--publisher.
The Complete Golfer
Author: Herbert Warren WindPublisher:
ISBN: 9780940889316
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Happy Golfer
Author: Bernard DarwinGolf in America
Author: George B. KirschPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252032926
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
An inclusive narrative of golf's history and popularity in the United States