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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
  • 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
  • The American Private Golf Club Guide
    The American Private Golf Club Guide
    by Daniel Wexler
  • Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season
    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
  • 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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2010 Honda Classic Final Round Open Comment Thread

If the Bear Trap references top 100, we all receive advance copies of Gary Koch's forthcoming memoir, Better Than Most.

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Yeah...this would be too much for a drinking game.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterSpence
"Gary Koch's forthcoming memoir, Better Than Most."

Well you made my day with that line Geoff. VERY funny.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered Commentermel
Indeed. If it were a drinking game a bunch of cooped up golfers would die of alcohol poisoning in the first hour of the telecast. I'm gonna hafta miss it, though. Sun is out, birds are singing, and the golf course positively beckons. Somebody keep track of how Sam Saunders does for me.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterKy Laffoon's Ghost
If, as they say, brevity is the soul of wit...well done Geoff!
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterJS
Why is it that I don't like that course? I've never played it...but The Bear Trap and all those lost balls just doesn't do it for me. Frankly, I don't like 17 at TPC Sawgrass either. I like 16, I like 18...but 17 just seems goofy.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterMRP
Broadcasting tip: when you manage to invent a "storyline" where there is none, be sure to repeat it overandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandover again. Makes you look knowledgeable.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterBenSeattle
MRP -

This list of great architects is a short one.

and 17 at TPC Sawgrass.....it was never intended to be a test of golf, it's a test of intestinal fortitude.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterOld Hornet
That course must be hell for the average 18 handicap with a slice.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterJohnV
Re Sawgrass 17: It is a nine iron. Any mid-handicapper can hit a green with a nine iron. Surround it with water and make the green tough to hit it close, and you have a hole. You may call it gimmicky, but I call it the only way to ensure a pro has to hit a short iron with a high pucker factor.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered CommenterThe O
The NBC broadcast crew - particularly Koch and Hicks - with their gushing, repetitive references to "muscular, good-looking, powerful, etc" Villegas had me leaping for the mute button.
03.7.2010 | Unregistered Commenterohgeez
I don't know that I'd give my worthless endorsement of the architectural bona fides of the Bear Trap, but it certainly makes for interesting viewing as Tour players in contention puked all over themselves. None of the holes struck me as plain unfair, just plain difficult and, like most Florida golf holes, fairly plain in general.
03.8.2010 | Unregistered Commentertlavin
I kept looking to see if any marshall on the tee would signal when Villegas' drives went off line. It seems that Camilo does his own signaling.

Bear Trap references on NBC were only about 30% of the amount on the Golf Channel broadcasts.

Grain references from Miller were also on the low end of usual.
03.8.2010 | Unregistered CommenterKevin
I think Dan Hicks had to go for a cold shower after the telecast after the way he talked about Villegas.
03.8.2010 | Unregistered Commenterpitman55
Before I die it would be wonderful to have a PGA tour event done by the Renton Laidlaw and Co.
Just to hear a professional,l understated telecast once here that doesn't assume that we all have ADD.
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