Books
  • Lines of Charm: Brilliant And Irreverent Quotes, Notes, And Anecdotes from Golf's Golden Age Architects
    Lines of Charm: Brilliant And Irreverent Quotes, Notes, And Anecdotes from Golf's Golden Age Architects
  • The Future of Golf: How Golf Lost Its Way and How to Get It Back
    The Future of Golf: How Golf Lost Its Way and How to Get It Back
    by Geoff Shackelford
  • Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design
    Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design
    by Geoff Shackelford
  • The Art of Golf Design
    The Art of Golf Design
    by Michael Miller, Geoff Shackelford
  • Alister MacKenzie's Cypress Point Club
    Alister MacKenzie's Cypress Point Club
    by Geoff Shackelford
  • The Golden Age of Golf Design
    The Golden Age of Golf Design
    by Geoff Shackelford
  • The Good Doctor Returns: A Novel
    The Good Doctor Returns: A Novel
    by Geoff Shackelford
  • Masters of the Links: Essays on the Art of Golf and Course Design
    Masters of the Links: Essays on the Art of Golf and Course Design
  • The Captain: George C. Thomas Jr. and His Golf Architecture
    The Captain: George C. Thomas Jr. and His Golf Architecture
    by Geoff Shackelford
  • The Riviera Country Club: A Definitive History
    The Riviera Country Club: A Definitive History
    by Geoff Shackelford
Current Reading
  • The American Private Golf Club Guide
    The American Private Golf Club Guide
    by Daniel Wexler
  • Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season
    Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season
    by Robert Lusetich
  • Cracking the Code: The Winning Ryder Cup Strategy: Make It Work for You
    Cracking the Code: The Winning Ryder Cup Strategy: Make It Work for You
    by Paul Azinger, Dr. Ron Braund
  • The Story of Golf, Official 2010 Edition
    The Story of Golf, Official 2010 Edition
  • Swinging from My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star
    Swinging from My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star
    by Christina Kim, Alan Shipnuck
  • Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die: Golf Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations (Fifty Places Series)
    Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die: Golf Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations (Fifty Places Series)
    by Chris Santella

    Follow up includes yours truly nominating Rustic Canyon. Shocking, I know.

  • Sports Illustrated The Golf Book
    Sports Illustrated The Golf Book
    by Editors of Sports Illustrated
  • Planet Golf USA: The Definitive Reference to Great Golf Courses in America
    Planet Golf USA: The Definitive Reference to Great Golf Courses in America
    by Darius Oliver

    The highly anticipated second volume comes to America for more design analysis and stunning photography.

  • Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger
    Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger
    by Dan Jenkins
  • 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.

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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Nov182008

"He's common folk just like we are"

PGA.com's Kathy Orton talks to the Ryder Cup players who visited the White House Monday.

Boo, on the outgoing President who attended Yale and Harvard Business School.

"He's common folk just like we are," added Boo Weekley. "He's just like his daddy, I think. I met his daddy before, a couple times. Like his daddy told me at the Ryder Cup, he said, 'Son, you act just like my son.' I said, 'Yes, sir, I probably do. I don't know that for a fact, but I probably do.'"

There you go. 41 says 43 acts like Boo Weekley.

This is lovely...

Hunter Mahan was worried that he upset the President because he told him he was from California, even though he now lives in Texas.

"He asked if I was from Texas, and I'm not originally, but I do live there," Mahan said. "I consider myself a Texan more than a Californian, which is where I'm from. I hope I didn't offend him."

I can see where he might be offended. I've never understood why the President should have to deal with a state that does not give him the electoral votes he desires. So offensive. 

Maybe Hunter should just not play in California?

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Reader Comments (19)

pro golfers is smart... *sigh*
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterMRP
Smart? No doubt about it. I bet at least one of those guys has read The Fountainhead. Or Atlas Shrugged.
ky: nice one. these are not books for reading. these are books for lying down and avoiding . . .
11.18.2008 | Unregistered Commenterthusgone
Hunter Mahan has no business ever stepping into the Great State of California ever again. He belongs with those shit-kickers who would just as soon fuck a football then hit a golf ball.
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterBo Weekly's Brain
It wouldn't break my heart is President Obama did away with this practice...
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterBob
President Obama....I like how that looks....yes, sir...
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterPete the Luddite
obama will present the pros with another opportunity to demonstrate the respect and patriotism shown by the gang who got invited to visit president clinton . . . apparently the ryder cup is only an opportunity to represent your country if there's a republican in the oval office.
11.18.2008 | Unregistered Commenterthusgone
Yes any portrayal of patriotism should be forbidden in the future as we are all now one global village united in the worship of the state. The Messiah shall bring us a utopian paradise where an enlightened state of conciousness will allow us to put aside personal choice and individual freedoms for the betterment of our fellow world brethern. I have my channel tuned to Oprah and I am awaiting further instructions. Amen.
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterMike C.
Wake up everybody!
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterTeddy P.
There are those who prefer fake populism to professional excellence!
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterRandy
Hey Bo Weeklys Brain,

Why don't you have the balls to call people names using you're real name and phone number.
610/223-7916
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterKelly Blake Moran
Classy, very Classy.
11.18.2008 | Unregistered CommenterAdam Clayman
Gee, I step out for a few hours and why is it I knew this thread would get ugly?
11.18.2008 | Registered CommenterGeoff
Never mind the political crap -- thusgone, I hope you're not still relying on the Pythons for advice about Australian wine!
11.18.2008 | Unregistered Commenterjneu
jneu: you caught me! better the pythons than ayn rand, i guess.
11.19.2008 | Unregistered Commenterthusgone
Wouldn't John Cleese make a GREAT Howard Roark?
11.19.2008 | Unregistered Commenterjneu
brilliant casting! i'd watch that remake.
11.19.2008 | Unregistered Commenterthusgone
John Cleese? Yes, as long as he dresses and acts like Ian MacCallister, the NXT guy!

But who will play Dominique Francon? How about Jamie Lee Curtis as a worthy successor to Patricia Neal.

The golf version could also be a remake of "A Fish Called Wanda." Anybody out in Geoff-land a Hollywood Producer? There are at least 32 people who would pay to see that movie.
my choice for dominique would be the 1980s-era carol cleveland.
i think cleese played a struggling architect in the architect sketch:
"did you say knives?"
"rotating knives, yes."
"do i take that you are proposing to slaughter our tenants?"
"does that not fit in with your plans?"
11.19.2008 | Unregistered Commenterthusgone

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