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
  • 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.

  • St Andrews Golf Links: Six Centuries of Golf
    St Andrews Golf Links: Six Centuries of Golf
    by Tom Jarrett, Peter Mason

    Another St. Andrews book to warm us up for the 2010 Open.

  • Swinley Forest Golf Club
    Swinley Forest Golf Club
    by Nicholas Courtney
  • 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 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
  • Pebble Beach: The Official Golf History
    Pebble Beach: The Official Golf History
    by Neal Hotelling
  • Free: The Future of a Radical Price
    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
20Aug2008

PGA Tour Shot Tracker Debut

There's a video posted at PGATour.com announcing what appears to be a new way to track players with Shotlink type information. And it's free. We'll see how much information it shares, but if it has some of ShotLink's data it ought to be a lot of fun to use.

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Take the %20 out of the URL, Geoff. That's a space character and it results in your URL being bad.

http://tinyurl.com/6otthd
08.20.2008 | Unregistered CommenterErik J. Barzeski
Its been in "beta" for ages (which also has been free). For those used to TourCast, this thing is a big piece of junk in my opinion.

Graphics are too convulated, too small, the replay mode (which was just added two weeks ago) is bad, the shot data is wrong a lot of the time, etcetcetc

One saving grace... its free.

Still would rather pay for Tourcast though.
08.20.2008 | Unregistered CommenterHuh
I didn't mind paying for TourCast either and felt the value was "worth it." Not overwhelmingly, but enough that I bought it for 2 or 3 years.

I haven't done any beta testing of this service, but that's disappointing to hear it might suck.
08.20.2008 | Unregistered CommenterErik J. Barzeski
Thanks Erik, should be working now.
08.20.2008 | Registered CommenterGeoff
http://pgatourusergroup.wordpress.com/past-user-comments/

and

http://pgatourusergroup.wordpress.com/

are two good reads, especially the first link.

They are the beta users responses to how the product was conducted. (note since the start of the beta, only two functions have been added, the "replay" mode and a group mode.)
08.21.2008 | Unregistered CommenterHuh
Wow you people are hard to please. It has its glitches and occasional mistakes, but I have to say this feature is pretty cool. Worth every free penny of it.
08.21.2008 | Unregistered CommenterScotty
Yeah totally agree with those who said this is a big piece of junk. I'm an old school TourCast guy and this "new" app is a major step backwards. Some of my biggest complaints are

-No audio notifications. How are you supposed to follow this?
-No ability to see how others have done on the hole (shot comparisons).
-Can't toggle to view the group ahead or behind.
-The course graphics are MUCH smaller and it makes finding the hole location difficult.
-No ability to toggle up and view the entire course at once.
-Can't "sit" on one hole and watch others play through.
-No little player icons that show when the player starts their swing/putt.
-No moving line of the ball path... rather a line just appears (with no sound).
-Can't click one button and watch a player's entire round from start to finish. Rather you have to click about 36 times to follow each shot.

It's funny how big corps like the PGATour will spin this as an "improvement" when we all really know this is a bigtime step backwards from TourCast.

Here's to watching less golf online.

-Steve (Atlanta)
08.21.2008 | Unregistered CommenterSteve
It's not as good as TourCast but not as bad as you make it out. Definitely better than just the play-by-play text on the leaderboard. What I don't understand is why they just couldn't have made TourCast free?
IBM and Pgatour parted ways (and some say on very bad terms), IBM must hold the rights to Tourcast, so thus the pgatour had to invent something new.

Too bad really, Tourcast is miles above this product.
08.22.2008 | Unregistered CommenterHuh

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