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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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Monday
09Nov2009

Dottie Pepper Wants To Spend More Time Away From Brian Hammond

Jim McCabe notes Pepper's decision to step down from her Golf Channel duties and while she'll be missed during their major championship coverage, a commenter on the Golfweek notes that on the eve of the new LPGA television contract with Golf Channel, "the LPGA really needs her and good announcing now more than ever."

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Reader Comments (13)

Golf Channel's loss.
11.9.2009 | Unregistered CommenterChuck
35 topurneys per year. wow.

As an aside, that could be double the entire LPGA calendar.
11.9.2009 | Unregistered Commentersmails
The only bad part about Pepper leaving is that she couldn't get Tilghman to go with her.
11.9.2009 | Unregistered Commentercourt
I've never understood why everyone likes Dottie Pepper yet doesn't like Kelly Tilghman. I'm in the opposite camp... I kind of like Kelly and won't miss Dottie. By the way, I don't get the headline and Brian Hammond.
11.9.2009 | Unregistered CommenterNathan
I like Dottie. I find her comments insightful as a former player and poignant. I think she is also learning to let the game be the story and not feel the need to overpower it with commentary, something a number of her colleagues need to learn.
11.9.2009 | Unregistered CommenterAverage Golfer
Her "chokin' freakin' dogs" comment remains a classic -- you'll be missed Dottie.
11.9.2009 | Unregistered CommenterSmolmania
I don't have cable so I don't care that she left Golf Channel, but it is their loss. Really wasn't in her camp for the longest time but when she spoke out against Commish Blivet it really opened my eyes and made me step back and think "wow, she really gets it".

Glad to hear DP is back in the home state, go girl.
11.9.2009 | Unregistered CommenterFarmingdale
Dottie was as good as it gets for frank golf perspective from a female golf commentator. Kelly is a weak as it gets...nothing insightful, dull and outside of a pretty face...generates little upside for a telecast. Pepper will find another role that she can contribute from...golf needs gals like her to engage women and convince the chauvinists that some ladies know the game well and add to its fabric.
11.10.2009 | Unregistered CommenterSir Real
Dottie is a great commentator who has fantastic insight into the game and the players.
11.10.2009 | Unregistered CommenterJay Townsend
Dottie always seemed to add to what was seen on the TV, whether it was about the shot or the situation.

Kelly always seemed to be trying to say something memorable or adding a trite comment about the shot.
11.10.2009 | Unregistered CommenterJohnny Knoxville
I must have been watching a different Dottie Pepper than you guys.
11.10.2009 | Unregistered Commentercourt
Dottie is thoughtful, articulate, and at her best she is conversational in a good way, as if she's talking with you rather than talking at you. She knows the game and the players well, and she doesn't relive her past as most former players do.
11.10.2009 | Unregistered CommenterCBell
Dottie Pepper is by far the most interesting golf pro on tv bar none . And the most informative and not bad looking too. I would rather have a conversation with her then anybody else on tv. Thanks dottie you do a great job. Joe
12.8.2009 | Unregistered CommenterJoe coppola

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