America S Greatest Golf Courses

Explores the evolution of the golf course, with advice on evaluating a course and a walking tour of sixty of the favorite courses in the United States

Discover the stories behind such iconic courses as Cypress Point and Augusta - and learn how best to play them. Selected by a panel of experts and illustrated with stunning computer artworks, this book gives you a unique insight into the world's most spectacular and important golf clubs and lets you discover what makes these courses so special and how you would play each hole. The courses are organized by region and each section explores key clubs, bringing you the essential facts complemented by gorgeous photography and details of some of the most important people, clubs, designers and golf holes. Find out more in the focus pages on the featured courses, which include 'card of the course' panels to fill you in on vital statistics, while evocative quotes from the course architects help to bring the extensive historical information to life.

This new edition features superb photographs and detailed reviews of America's finest courses A magnificent tour of the greatest golf courses in the United States, this new edition of Planet Golf USA features superb photographs and detailed reviews of America's finest courses. Revised and updated with new reviews and all-new images, it remains the most comprehensive directory ever published on the nation's outstanding golf layouts. Included are reviews of the top 100 courses in the United States, as well as important hidden gems and a number of restored Golden Age masterpieces. Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters Champion, and his design partner, Bill Coore, contribute an insightful foreword. They are the leading architects in golf, and their courses feature prominently in the book. Completely revised and updated with the best new golf courses in America, Planet Golf USA will provide many hours of essential reading for any active or armchair golfer and is a perfect addition to any golfer's library.

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.

Text and photographs examine the author's top sixty golf courses in the world.

Golfers forever dream about playing in the most iconic locations, such as the Augusta National, the testing Valderrama or legendary St Andrews. In this book, each of the world's most celebrated courses is illustrated using Google Earth's satellite imagery and described in detail. It offers insight into the challenges and personality of each hole.

This book offers readers behind-the-scenes tales from Americas master architects themselves in their own words. Elite designers such as Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, Pete Dye, Rees Jones, Robert Trent Jones Jr., Arthur Hills, Arnold Palmer, and others share their personal anecdotes related to the creation of some of the worlds most famous courses: from run-ins with snakes to bulldozers sinking in quicksand, to holes created by accident, such as the famed island green 17th at the TPC at Sawgrass.