In golf construction art and utility meet; both are absolutely vital; one is utterly ruined without the other. GEORGE THOMAS
It’s back!
Twenty years later Tatra Press has kindly allowed me to bring back Grounds For Golf now that golf architecture is of more interest to the masses. A new Introduction looks at what’s driven the interest growth and two new chapters I had a blast adding (plus a few edits to keep things up-to-date).
The Amazon purchase page for the book arriving June 15, 2026.
R&A's Dawson To Step Down In September 2015
/World's Most Interesting Golfer Ryder Cup Worthy?
/With his Masters performance and now a win in his Champions Tour debut, should Miguel Angel Jimenez be consideration of Captain Paul McGinley?
Jimenez wants on the team and Derek Lawrenson says the idea doesn't seem as nutty as it did last summer after a win in Hong Kong Open when Jimenez made his ambitions clear.
And now? If the match was taking place tomorrow, you'd want him in the team.
Never mind that he doesn't hit the ball very far and his Ryder Cup record isn't great.
Think about what he does bring to the party, what he'd be like in the team room, the crowd reaction when he walks to the first tee, and the fact that in the only home Ryder Cup he has played in, at Celtic Manor in 2010, he won two matches out of three.
And so, this summer, the world's most interesting golfer - to quote the headline accompanying an American magazine feature - will become the most intriguing sub-plot. Will he achieve his once-impossible dream? One thing's for sure: every overweight, 50-something club golfer from here to California will be cheering him on.
Coore: Pinehurst Will Produce Spectacular Recovery Shots
/Famed Forest Oaks CC Closed Until Further Notice
/Reminder: Jarrod Lyle, Harold Ramis On In Play Tonight
/LA Times Water Story: "It's the same fatal error being repeated all over the Southwest--there is no new water"
/More Positive Reviews For 15-Inch Cup Golf
/Can't Make It Up Files: Reed's Shot Finishes At Top Five Yacht
/Luke Kerr-Dineen with the details of Patrick World Top Five Reed pull-yanking a hazard recovery shot at Harbour Town further into the hazard and right at the base of a yacht named Top Five.
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