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    by Geoff Shackelford
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    The Art of Golf Design
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    The Golden Age of Golf Design
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    Masters of the Links: Essays on the Art of Golf and Course Design
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    Follow up includes yours truly nominating Rustic Canyon. Shocking, I know.

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    Planet Golf USA: The Definitive Reference to Great Golf Courses in America
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    The highly anticipated second volume comes to America for more design analysis and stunning photography.

  • St Andrews Golf Links: Six Centuries of Golf
    St Andrews Golf Links: Six Centuries of Golf
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    Another St. Andrews book to warm us up for the 2010 Open.

  • Swinley Forest Golf Club
    Swinley Forest Golf Club
    by Nicholas Courtney
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    Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger
    by Dan Jenkins
  • The Leaderboard: Conversations on Golf and Life
    The Leaderboard: Conversations on Golf and Life
    by Amy Alcott


  • The 19th Hole: Architecture of the Golf Clubhouse
    The 19th Hole: Architecture of the Golf Clubhouse
    by Richard Diedrich

    SI Golf Plus calls this the #1 golf book of 2008.

  • World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They are Played
    World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They are Played
    by Mark Rowlinson

    New and updated, including contributions from Ran Morrissett and Daniel Wexler.

  • Golf in America (Sport and Society)
    Golf in America (Sport and Society)
    by George B. Kirsch


    Fresh and well researched perspective on the history of golf in America

  • Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season
    Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season
    by Bob Smiley
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    Pebble Beach: The Official Golf History
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    Free: The Future of a Radical Price
    by Chris Anderson
Classics
  • The Book Of Golfers: A Biographical History Of The Royal & Ancient Game
    The Book Of Golfers: A Biographical History Of The Royal & Ancient Game
    by Daniel Wexler


  • A Season In Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands
    A Season In Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands
    by Lorne Ruberstein

    A summer in Dornoch.

  • Emerald Gems:The Links of Ireland
    Emerald Gems:The Links of Ireland
    by Laurence Casey Lambrecht

    Beautiful images of the classic Irish links.

  • Golf Architecture in America: Its Strategy and Construction
    Golf Architecture in America: Its Strategy and Construction
    by Geo. C. Thomas
  • The Spirit of St. Andrews
    The Spirit of St. Andrews
    by Alister MacKenzie
  • Club Life: The Games Golfers Play
    Club Life: The Games Golfers Play
    by John Steinbreder
  • Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and his Golf Courses
    Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and his Golf Courses
    by Bradley S. Klein
  • Evangelist of Golf: The Story of Charles Blair MacDonald
    Evangelist of Golf: The Story of Charles Blair MacDonald
    by George Bahto
  • The Course Beautiful : A Collection of Original Articles and Photographs on Golf Course Design
    The Course Beautiful : A Collection of Original Articles and Photographs on Golf Course Design
    Treewolf Prod
  • Reminiscences Of The Links
    Reminiscences Of The Links
    by Albert Warren Tillinghast, Richard C. Wolffe, Robert S. Trebus, Stuart F. Wolffe
  • Gleanings from the Wayside
    Gleanings from the Wayside
    by Albert Warren Tillinghast
  • The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes
    The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes
    by Daniel Wexler
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Wednesday
22Aug2007

First Look at TPC Boston: 17th Hole Before/After

I will be posting more images in a few days, but thanks to TPC Boston superintendent extraordinaire Tom Brodeur, who managed a a major econstruction and grow in of his course since last year's Deutsche Bank event, we get to see some before/after shots of Gil Hanse and Brad Faxon's redo.

Home to next week's PGA Tour playoff event, TPC Boston was overhauled to reflect more of a New England-style look and feel. Much of the new-meant-to-look-old bunkering was crafted by Jim Wagner, who was recently featured in this YouTube video.

Here's the 17th hole's fairway view, before and after. Note New England style fescue bumps just off the fairway of this 420-yard par 4:

TPCBoston17fwyviewbefore.jpg 

TPCBoston17fwyafter.jpg
 

And the rear view of the 17th where the green has been reduced in size:

TPCBoston17th-before 

TPCBoston17th-after 

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Reader Comments (8)

Looks much more like a golf hole rather than a hole to play golf on.

Please tell Gil nice work!!!!
08.22.2007 | Unregistered CommenterAl
I would love to see more of these photos. The course has a more natural look to it with alot more character. Great job Mr. Hanse, Mr. Wagner and Mr. Faxon.

JAD
08.22.2007 | Unregistered CommenterJAD
"New England style fescue bumps"= chocolate drops. Other N.E. courses with this feature include Brookline, Kittansett, and Essex (Ross home pre Pinehurst)
08.22.2007 | Unregistered CommenterHank
JAD,
I'm going to post more in the coming days.
08.22.2007 | Registered CommenterGeoff
Typical of Gil, these changes look phenomenal. That new 17th looks like it has been there for 1000 years.
08.22.2007 | Unregistered Commenterpc
Those bunkers are phenomenal. And Boston's only nine hours out of here...hmmmmmm...wonder what kind of bribery the gf will take for this kind of road trip?
08.22.2007 | Unregistered CommenterReverendTMac
Almost anything would have been an improvement on that rocky feature. I like the new rough, but strongly dislike the large bunker for two reasons. I don't understand the purpose of such a large bunker and it looks to dwarf the green - it isn't in scale to its surrounds.
08.22.2007 | Unregistered Commentersean arble
I agree with the bunker post. Perhaps a grass depression bunker would have completed the hole in a more subtle way. It seems to be a fairly subtle hole, and the bunker flashes a bit more brilliance than needed.
08.23.2007 | Unregistered CommenterRonald Montesano

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