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  • 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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Saturday
21Nov2009

"Q-School: The good, bad, ugly and disheartening"

Golfweek does their typically stellar week covering Q-school.  Sean Martin reports from second stage qualifying in Brooksville, Florida and Jim McCabe offers notes on the other qualifying sites, where plenty of big names did not advance.

 

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Not that I want to discourage anyone from fullfilling their dream but shouldn't there be a rule for these has beens to throw in the towel??? Can Robert Gamez and Jim Gallagher get real jobs in this world?

At least Andrew Magee works for the Golf Channel and plays with real estate investors during the summer at a development in Idaho. I guess Gallagher could become an equipment rep.
11.21.2009 | Unregistered CommenterRaider Fan
Raider Fan - perhaps you could ask that question of Mr. Allen Davis as well.
11.21.2009 | Unregistered CommenterTighthead
Big Luke List fan. I predict great things from this player in 2010.
11.21.2009 | Unregistered CommenterHTBATG
Tighthead: Exactly the case. Al David should retire and move on.

So should Peter Lonard, Brad Adamonis, Robert Gamez, Frank Lickliter, Ted Tryba, Dean Wilson, Eric Axley, Guy Boros, David Berganio, Kirk Triplett, Bob Burns and Dennis Paulson.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterRaider Fan
Raider Fan, Peter Lonard, while streaky...still has a ton of game when he's on. Triplett...while dull and a plodder, can still contend. The others are fading or in pronounced funks. It's a hard game at the top level...give'm some props for at least trying to compete!
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterSir Real
I don't see why they should quit. Pro golf is eat what you kill. There are no rules about when you stop hunting.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterTighthead
Man on the street opinions about what other guys should do. Gag me. I'll bet ... no, I know ... you guys are wimps. Fat guts. Cargo shorts. Goatees. Fat wives and girlfriends. Children who look like frogs. Do you wear jerseys of NFL players on Sundays at your local chicken wing joint? Go shoot in the sixties for four rounds of golf … over the next ten years … and then thump your chests.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterMiss Priss ... I Dig Hot Golf Guys!
Great points by all. Maybe Steve Stricker should have quit as well. Scott Verplank too.

You guys are morons. The best thing about golf is the comeback kid in a world of riches and success.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterBob
Tour school is the ulitmate pressure cooker, and second stage may be the most pressure filled. Imagine Jamie Lovemark-in a playoff a few weeks ago and not even going to the finals which means no status on the Nationwide Tour! The fields were full of former tour winners that didn't make the finals. Believe me, all these guys can whip most of us every day, anywhere.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered Commentertaffy
@ Taffy:

Indeed. Playing left-handed.

I do wonder at those who would denigrate the players mentioned above, all of whom have performed well at the highest levels of their chosen profession. Would that each of us be in that category.

I'm willing to make an exception for Al Davis, though. His "Just win, baby" schtick was old when John "BOOM" Madden was coaching the raiders.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterKy Laffoon's Ghost
Miss Priss...

Your first and last sentence...solid.

The rest is not a style that I prefer...but I get your point.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterMRP
Isn't Frank Lickliter the one who had successive 60s in Q school two years ago? Makes you shudder. don't it.
11.22.2009 | Unregistered CommenterPickworth
Big ups to Kevin Kisner for dominating the Callaway Gardens site. 64-67-66-66. -25 and seven clear of the field.
11.23.2009 | Unregistered CommenterWill Smith

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