Golfers forever dream about playing in the most iconic locations, such as the beautiful Augusta National, the testing Valderrama or legendary St Andrews, and The World’s Greatest Golf Courses on Google Earth provides them with a unique perspective of these great golf challenges.
Each of the world’s most celebrated courses is illustrated using Google Earth’s incredible satellite imagery and then described in expert detail as the author, Golf Monthly’s Alex Narey, explains the course history and design, the signature holes and the tactics for playing them.
Featuring 30 iconic courses and with over 200 stunning photographs, golfers will get a feel for taking on some of the greatest holes in world golf. As well as featuring essential information such as yardage and course cut, the book gives the reader a unique insight into the challenges and personality of each hole. The World’s Greatest Golf Courses on Google Earth brings the most celebrated courses vividly to life and it is the next best thing to actually playing them.
Sam Torrance is British golf’s greatest personality. Well known and loved for his insights and anecdotes in his commentary, he divulges tall tales from the great, the good and the not-so-good in the world of golf.
For more than 35 years, John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins covered the biggest stories in golf, from Major Championships to Ryder Cups and amateur competitions. During these four decades, he wrote about all the golfing greats and covered the biggest stories of the times.
Colin Montgomerie is a golfing legend. Ranked Europe’s number-one for an unparalleled seven years in a row, he is equally renowned as a player of great passion. The son of a keen Scottish golfing family, Colin was already showing his prodigious talent as a young boy. After completing his education in America, where he benefited from a golf scholarship, Colin turned professional in 1987, beginning a truly remarkable career.
The Remarkable and Revealing Relationship Between Golf & Investment Markets.
Sand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the Game explores what makes golf, and golf course architecture, so special on sandy terrain. Golf was born on sandy ground and the features of the game are a direct product of that terrain. Fairways and greens were derived from the naturally occurring areas of short grass found among the coastal dunes of Scotland.
This lavishly illustrated volume spotlights 55 of the most stunning golf courses across the globe. Transporting us to the birthplace of golf—Great Britain and Ireland—as well as renowned sites from St. Andrews in Augusta to Ballybunion in Melbourne, from Pebble Beach to Valderrama, Golf Around the World demonstrates the tremendous appeal of the game through depictions of the top world-class courses.
Charting Poulter’s life from when he first picked up a golf club at the age of seven and hit the ball 140 yards to his triumphant charge in the 2012 Ryder Cup, this is a story every golf fan will want to read. Poulter has earned his success the hard way and the book details how he grafted to become a professional golfer, having to pay to play at the golf club that employed him.
