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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
    The Golden Age of Golf Design
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    The Good Doctor Returns: A Novel
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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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    Sports Illustrated The Golf Book
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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.

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    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
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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


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    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
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    Pebble Beach: The Official Golf History
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    Free: The Future of a Radical Price
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Classics
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    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
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    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
26Aug2009

"PGA Tour big bird didn't like this tweet"

Steve Elling reports that master Tweeter Stewart Cink heard from The Man Wednesday after Tweeting about AT&T's wretched (I can attest!) cell coverage.

That's when Commissioner Tim Finchem called to ask him to stop ragging on key PGA Tour sponsors on his Twitter site. AT&T is the title sponsor at events in Pebble Beach and Washington, D.C., and now stands as the lone sponsor of multiple events on the U.S. tour.

Cink was somewhat amused by it all. Later, when he got to the course, he was asked by another tour official to take down the posting, which he did. Eventually.

The offending Tweets:

 

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Reader Comments (10)

I can sympathize with Cink. I have a Blackberry Bold running on AT&T, and service is really mediocre. Cink probably gets the same message I do when I try to access the internet from some spot "Data connection not available - try again from a different spot" or something like that. Amazing that iphone partnered with AT&T and their crappy network.
08.26.2009 | Unregistered CommenterKevin
that's funny, i never heard tiger bitch about the performance of his buick. . .
08.26.2009 | Unregistered Commenterthusgone
Goofy corporate suits don't realize that AT&T will probably look worse because of this than because of Cink's tweet. Plus, it's not like he said anything people don't know -- a recent study showed that the biggest thing people in the U.S. hate about their iPhone [which Cink uses] is AT&T coverage [55%!].
08.26.2009 | Unregistered Commenterbsoudi
He may have been referring to the iPhone's lack of MMS. When someone sends you an MMS message, you get a text with a link, a message id, and a password. You have to go to that website and put the credentials in to see the barely recognizable photo of a beautiful sunset.
08.26.2009 | Unregistered CommenterScott
I wanted an iPhone and borrowed a friends to check AT&T reception at my house. Rotten, Nada. Zero. Zilch. I have a few little things I do from home and need at least basic coverage and I wanted to use Apple as I have for everything else and combine my phone and iPod.

Finchem & AT&T should have just shut up. It would have disappeared. Now it's being blogged throughout the world. Are they really that stupid? Do they understand that just because Stewart has 750,000+ followers, only a small percentage saw the actual tweet.
08.26.2009 | Unregistered CommenterVince Spence
I side with the tour on this one. Cink should put his Tweeter where it won't tweet anymore.
08.26.2009 | Unregistered CommenterZelda
I thought that the players were independent contractors. Why can't he provide a personal opinion, even if it has to do with a sponsor for another tournament during the year and not this one?
08.27.2009 | Unregistered CommenterPete the Luddite
You gotta love freedom of speech but that doesn't mean you don't face consequences with your spoken word.

And iPhone users and Apple (unofficially of course) will blame AT&T for poor coverage but the radio on the iPhone is not very good either ...
08.27.2009 | Unregistered CommenterBob S
I think Stewart will be fined for this one. But we will never know as fines are not made public.

Section VI-D in the PGA Tour’s player handbook reads, “It is an obligation of membership to refrain from comments to the news media that unreasonably attack or disparage tournaments, sponsors, fellow members, players of PGA Tour.”

Does Twitter count as a comment to the news media?
08.27.2009 | Unregistered CommenterScott
How in the world was Cink's comments in any fashion an unreasonable attack or disparage against AT&T? He stated a fact - he didn't have coverage - then pointed out that he can't believe that in NYC, he would have spotty coverage.
08.27.2009 | Unregistered CommenterTaylor Anderson

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