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    The Art of Golf Design
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    The Golden Age of Golf Design
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    Follow up includes yours truly nominating Rustic Canyon. Shocking, I know.

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

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

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    Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger
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    The Leaderboard: Conversations on Golf and Life
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    The 19th Hole: Architecture of the Golf Clubhouse
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    SI Golf Plus calls this the #1 golf book of 2008.

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    World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They are Played
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    New and updated, including contributions from Ran Morrissett and Daniel Wexler.

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    Fresh and well researched perspective on the history of golf in America

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    Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season
    by Bob Smiley
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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
  • 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
03Aug2009

"FartGate -- CBS Denies Tiger Supplied It" **

You forget that in our little golf world, when Tiger might be involved it becomes national news. Case in point: TMZ actually went to CBS for a statement about who was responsible for Buick telecast's final round flatulence (not Tiger!), which the PGA Tour took down from YouTube.

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It's humorous that PGAT would go to such lengths to muffle a fart. I could understand removing any odor. I hope TMZ can get to the bottom of Fartgate.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterJohnny
this is what we get in the new world of imMEDIAcy. people (not geoff of course!) have nothing better to twitter, facebook and blog about. next thing you know people will be selling tiger's half-eaten apple on ebay. oops...that was last year.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterRM
It's too bad Sean O'Hair wasn't around. He would've had a lighter.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterScott
Given the Ulster inflection, his name IS pronounced David Farty.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterMacDuff
Big surprise CBS & PGA Tour, The Queen farts too!

Seriously, the look on Tiger and Stevie face, it was undoubtedly Tiger. they are laughing hysterically about the "fart."

Makes me think of that iPhone app, Fartphone.... It's got some real winners, The Dirty Sanchez is good, but the best is The Mosquito. That fart is the Energizer Bunny of Farts. It just keeps on going and going and going.

Did anyone think for a second that maybe it was somebody using their iPhone app?
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterNick Naylor
@ Nick.........

Yes Nick it appears domebody did think of the iphone app.

http://golf.fanhouse.com/2009/08/03/tiger-woods-fart-on-18-at-the-buick-open-sounds-like-an-iphone/
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterOWGR Fan
Tig did supply this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBBz-7PqJk
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterFarmingdale
We now have the definition of "a slow news day in golf."
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterChuck
First Lebron gets dunked on and Nike confiscates the camera from someone who was legally permitted to be there filming and now this! I don't get it. There are too many indians now and too many chiefs.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterArdmoreAri
"Jeese, I never thought I'd be blogging about a fart. What a high point in my career."

Rest assured, Geoff, the fart has pretty well been codified and canonized in Western literature. Today you're merely standing on the shoulders of giants.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterMorg
Are we sure the sound wasn't residue from Watson's putt to win the British?
08.3.2009 | Unregistered Commenterjason
Sorry Nick, no way it was Tiger. The mic was too far away to come through that loud and clear, plus Tiger and Stevie both look to their right...probably right at Feherty or one of the camera crew. Otherwise, I'm a big fan of your debating skills.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterRM
Smeller's the feller! Tiger moved away first.
08.3.2009 | Unregistered CommenterUB
As someone that handles a Sennheiser shotgun every day, the only way to solve this mystery is to see a wide shot that determines exactly where the shotgun was pointed.
If aimed in the direction of TW and the Bib-Stripper, it most certainly could pick that up.
08.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterLudell Hogwaller
It was apparently the boom mic operator who dealt it.

08.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterTDA

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