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Jan.21.2012
Bobby Jones always hoped that someday an amateur would win the Masters. In this novel, bestselling author John Coyne—The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan and The Caddie Who Played With Hickory—tells the story of Tim Alexander, an amateur from the public links courses in Southern Illinois, who...
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Jan.21.2012
Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high-tech equipment but with skill, finesse, and creativity. And the greatest hickory player of all...
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Jan.21.2012
Returning as an honored guest to the exclusive country club where he worked in his youth, Jack Handley remembers the summer of '46 when he caddied for Ben Hogan in the last Chicago Open. Now a respected historian, Jack recounts to the assembled sons and daughters of members he once...
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May.24.2010
Nomads 50th Commemorative Book
The Nomads Golf Club was founded in Johannesburg in 1960 by Michael Florance, a man who had a dream of giving back some of his own good fortune to those around him, and of creating a club of like-minded people. The club began with 106 members and now has...
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Oct.08.2008
The golfer lines up the shot. It's a long one, and the chances of acing it are nil. He says a prayer, swings, and- hallelujah!-he scores a hole in one. Many golfers confess to murmuring earnest prayers that they, too, may join the 42,000 people a year who catch lightning in a bottle and score a...
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Jun.04.2008
Why A Curveball Curves examines how science impacts sports and how people can use science to understand a sport better. In addition to baseball, sports such as football, basketball, soccer, golf, tennis (13 in all) are examined. the book is aimed at a general audience and uses non-scientific...
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Feb.04.2008
This is the story of the Monterey Peninsula, and of golf and the good life, for golf and Monterey have been inseparable since 1897.
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Feb.04.2008
You're there with Alice Cooper, as he tells how he gave up the bottle for the links; in Banff, on the lookout for golf course marauding bears, and in France, where they really know how to play the game -- they take lunch. Includes candid interviews with Michael Murphy, Jack Lemmon and Alan Shepard...
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Jan.13.2008
You love to play golf. You love to travel. For every golfer who dreams of the most famous golf courses of the world, and for those who travel with golf addicts, the ultimate guide to legendary fairways, from the windswept moors at Gleneagles in the Scottish Highlands to the palm-fringed greens of...
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Dec.27.2007
Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life—he has a job that he despises, a marriage that has lost its passion, children from whom he feels disconnected, and at age fifty, a sense that he has accomplished nothing of consequence with his life. But on Christmas Day, he goes out to...
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