You Know You're a Golfing Fanatic When... (You Know You're ...)
by Ben Fraser
You know you're a golfing fanatic when... ... there is a suspicious looking dent next to the cat flap from the last time you `put the cat out'. Read on to find out whether you're one iron short of a set or if you can still escape the fairway unscathed!
2019 Weekly Planner Funny Theme Sexual Plans Black White 134 Pages
by Distinctive Journals
A guide to playing golf covers the swing, club selection, shotmaking, putting, and bad lies, and discusses fitness, practice, and strategy.
Golf: from its Scottish Highland origins to its distinctive wardrobe, and from St Andrews Old Course to the lush greens of Augusta, the word conjures a history and a world – and this book is the perfect window onto that world. Packed with colour illustrations and photographs, it traces golf’s evolution from preserve of the privileged few to aspirational pursuit of the masses, taking in the game’s Victorian and Edwardian popularity and the rise of the professional sport in the twentieth century....
In 1979, after 20 years of thrashings of British and Irish teams by America's seemingly unbeatable golfers, the representation of the British and Irish Ryder Cup team was extended to include continental European players. The experiment began badly for Europe, with defeats in 1979, 1981 and (more narrowly) in 1983. In 1985 at the Belfry, however, European golfers won the trophy for the first time since 1957. Over the ensuing 25 years, the Ryder Cup has been transformed into a highly charged - and...
Scottish Golf Links
Lowe takes us along the rugged eastern coast, from St. Andrews up to Montrose and Cruden Bay and Royal Aberdeen, "from heather, whin and sand, to points north," to Nairn and Dornoch. Then to the west coast, to Prestwick and Troon. It's not only the courses themselves that Lowe illuminates along the way, but the winding roads, the ancient villages, the farms and whiskey distilleries, and the people who call this land their home as well. Each step of his pilgrimage is given its due.
