Jack Nicklaus: Golf’s Greatest Champion is an intimately penned biography following the life and times of the Golden Bear. Mark Shaw takes the reader on a trip through history from Jack Nicklaus’s childhood and early golf training with his mentor, Jack Grout, to his success on the Senior PGA Tour. Along the way, the reader finds anecdotes from Nicklaus’s family, closest friends, golf rivals, and associates; career statistics; and analysis of Nicklaus’s playing theories. Shaw pai…
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Jack Nicklaus: Golf’s Greatest Champion is an intimately penned biography following the life and times of the Golden Bear. Mark Shaw takes the reader on a trip through history from Jack Nicklaus’s childhood and early golf training with his mentor, Jack Grout, to his success on the Senior PGA Tour. Along the way, the reader finds anecdotes from Nicklaus’s family, closest friends, golf rivals, and associates; career statistics; and analysis of Nicklaus’s playing theories. Shaw pai…
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From Booklist

Ostensibly about retooling his golf swing, Reed’s account develops in surprising ways that are incidental to the conventions of the golf instructional. Dreaming of walloping a 300-yard drive, Reed seeks out Mike Austin, a long-ball specialist who, in 1974, set a record for the longest shot in professional tournament competition. Reed concedes that Austin (who was in his early 90s when Reed met him in 2001) seemed to be a man of self-aggrandizing habits: every story …
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From Publishers Weekly

This first nonfiction effort by Frost, who is a novelist (The List of Seven), television producer (Twin Peaks) and scriptwriter (Hill Street Blues), deftly tells the story behind the legendary 1913 U. S. Open, in which Francis Ouimet, a 20-year-old golf amateur from Massachusetts, shocked the genteel golf world by defeating British champion Harry Vardon, the most famous pro golfer of his time and the inventor of what today is still considered the modern grip…
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Review

The 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes succeeds in hitting precisely the two targets any book purporting to present golf’s greatest anything must aim for: it’ll have golfers both arguing with and dreaming about its contents. Simultaneously. This is an altogether magnificent volume, big in size, big in contents, visually rich, and thoroughly engaging. Peper’s opening essay explains how he and his editors identified the ultimate one-tenth of 1 percent of the 500,…
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You might think that, since the game of golf has been around for a long, long time, it would stand to reason that the profession of golf course architect has also been around for a long, long time. You would be mistaken. The American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) dates only from the late 1940s. As you might expect, the organization has a small membership. You might also assume that, with profession. In truth, the aura exceeds the reality. What Shiels …
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You might think that, since the game of golf has been around for a long, long time, it would stand to reason that the profession of golf course architect has also been around for a long, long time. You would be mistaken. The American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) dates only from the late 1940s. As you might expect, the organization has a small membership. You might also assume that, with profession. In truth, the aura exceeds the reality. What Shiels …
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Review

The 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes succeeds in hitting precisely the two targets any book purporting to present golf’s greatest anything must aim for: it’ll have golfers both arguing with and dreaming about its contents. Simultaneously. This is an altogether magnificent volume, big in size, big in contents, visually rich, and thoroughly engaging. Peper’s opening essay explains how he and his editors identified the ultimate one-tenth of 1 percent of the 500,…
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Review

The 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes succeeds in hitting precisely the two targets any book purporting to present golf’s greatest anything must aim for: it’ll have golfers both arguing with and dreaming about its contents. Simultaneously. This is an altogether magnificent volume, big in size, big in contents, visually rich, and thoroughly engaging. Peper’s opening essay explains how he and his editors identified the ultimate one-tenth of 1 percent of the 500,…
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