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  • 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
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    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
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    The American Private Golf Club Guide
    by Daniel Wexler
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    Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season
    by Robert Lusetich
  • Cracking the Code: The Winning Ryder Cup Strategy: Make It Work for You
    Cracking the Code: The Winning Ryder Cup Strategy: Make It Work for You
    by Paul Azinger, Dr. Ron Braund
  • The Story of Golf, Official 2010 Edition
    The Story of Golf, Official 2010 Edition
  • Swinging from My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star
    Swinging from My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star
    by Christina Kim, Alan Shipnuck
  • 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.

  • 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 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.

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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Wednesday
Mar172010

ESPN Would Really, Really Like Tiger To Play In The Par 3 Contest, Too

Note how Sportscenter anchor John Buccigross asks Andy North if it might be a good idea for Tiger, as part of his image rehabilitation, to play in the Par-3 contest. You know, partake in that whole PGA Tour day care debacle that the Par 3 has become and which television audiences won't be tuning into much because it's so painful to watch.

Thankfully North at least has the good grace to mention that he'd selfishly like it to happen because ESPN broadcasts the event.

Let's not get greedy here, ESPN. You guys have Tiger Thursday and Friday. Besides, Sam Alexis is at least two years away from her first Par 3 Contest.



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Tiger should marry Ann Landers (were she not dead), because everybody, everybody is giving him advice. It's getting ridiculous.
03.17.2010 | Unregistered Commentertlavin
I fully agree with your assessment of the Par 3 contest.

That said, I still DVR it and watch (mostly on mute and with my finger on the skip button). Those beautiful images are like golfer crack, especially for a (normally) snow bound Canadian. The ponds are so damned still! Are we sure it isn't heaven? I swear, I could live on that little course and be happy for the rest of my days.

Bascially, I know how awful the event is going to be but I can't stay away. In fact, I might consider saying the same thing about the entire tournament these days...
03.17.2010 | Unregistered Commenterdsl
Oh man, the next few weeks are going to be painful reading and viewing. It's like the media has declared some sort of 'inane-off'. 'You think that's insipid, get a load of this...'
OT, love the Jack Benny joke. He's one of my all time faves. :)
03.17.2010 | Unregistered Commenterdbh
As an outside observer on this situation, I think I am more entertained by the media's behavior in all of this than anything else. It's hilarious to watch them riding the Tiger Gravy Train.
03.17.2010 | Unregistered CommenterDRM
Playing the Par 3 would give Tiger a chance to have Jamie Jungers, a/k/a Howard Stern's "Miss Tiger Woods", caddy for him.

Take that, Arnold Palmer/Kelly Tilghman.

And oh yes, we WILL get to the point where we will all be sooooo freaking grateful that Jim Nance & Company talk mindlessly of the azaleas and the dogwoods, because we will be sooooo freaking sick of all the Tiger jokes.
03.17.2010 | Unregistered CommenterChuck

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