Unlike other books on golf, "Tee to Green" is about learning to play the game later in life, written from the perspective of recent learner David Goslin, who took up golf at 65, in collaboration with LPGA Master Teaching Professional Mary Beth McGirr. A sociologist by training, Goslin has spent 40 years studying the process by which individuals learn new skills.

The perfect gift for any golf lover Do you know your albatross from your eagle? Your birdie from your bogey? Whether you're a golfing pro or simply a Sunday driver you'll enjoy working your way around the nine chapters of The Golf Pocket Bible. Beginning with the myths and legends surrounding the sport's origin, The Golf Pocket Bible follows a course from the rules of the game, through the rough and smooth of famous wins and losses to the final test of a golfing quiz. Discover the history of golf, explore famous golf courses from Gleneagles to St Andrews and Pebble Beach and learn fascinating facts about major golf tournaments from the Ryder Cup to the US Open. Inside this pocket golf guide you'll also find profiles of famous golfers from Colin Montgomerie and Nick Faldo through to Seve Ballesteros and Tiger Woods all at your fingertips, as well as a list of the best (and worst) golfing films. From mini golf and crazy golf to extreme golf and golf at the 2016 Olympics, The Golf Pocket Bible will take you through every aspect of the game from the driving range to the putting green. If you want to learn more about the fascinating world of golf, make sure you read The Golf Pocket Bible. The whole game. In one book. "I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters." -Bob Hope "Golf is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent perspiration." -Johnny Miller "I know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators." -Gerald Ford "Golf always makes me so damned angry" King George V "Golf is a game whose aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose" Winston Churchill This beautiful hardback edition has both dust-cover and gold embossing on the spine making it the perfect gift. Every Pocket Bible is lovingly crafted to give you a unique mix of useful references, handy tips and fascinating trivia that will enlighten and entertain you at every page. There is a Pocket Bible for everyone... Other titles in the series: The Football Pocket Bible, The DIY Pocket Bible, The Railway Pocket Bible, The Dog Lover's Pocket Bible and The Cricket Pocket Bible.

Live with purpose on and off the course. In golf and life, you don’t always hit a hole in one, but God uses all challenges to demonstrate his grace and mercy. In Birdies, Bogeys, and Life Lessons from the Game of Golf, writer and lifelong golfer Os Hillman shares reflections on golf and the spiritual realities that can be learned from it. Through fifty-two devotions, Os will encourage and challenge you with • inspiring stories of golfers and the golf experience, • personal insights about the joys and hardships of life and golf, and • spiritual truths that help renew your relationship with God. Discover how the lessons learned in golf reveal deeper truths about God.

This is the story of a man with a dream--as well as the vision and passion to make it come true. The dream was to build a great American links course, one that would contain all the excitement of the famous golfing destinations in Scotland and Ireland, storied places like St. Andrews and Ballybunion. The man was Mike Keiser, an entrepreneur and amateur golf enthusiast, founder of the successful company Recycled Paper Greetings, and "Dream Golf" is the story of how, with the help of some of the most colorful--and occasionally controversial--men in golf, he transformed a remote area on Oregon's Pacific coast into not one, but three of the most stunning, challenging, and highly ranked courses in the world.
It began modestly, when Mike Keiser decided to build a nine-hole "dunes" course and golf club on the shore of Lake Michigan, near his home in Chicago. The experience prompted him to look further, with the goal of realizing a dream that he had harbored for some time: to bring to American golfers the same kind of experience he had enjoyed while playing some of the legendary courses of the British Isles, "links" courses that had evolved naturally to fit the rugged, heaving coastal terrain. These ancient courses were the antithesis of most modern American courses, where the features were shaped by bulldozers and all too often look sleek, manicured, and artificial.
No, Bandon Dunes would be a "pure" golf experience, pitting the golfer against the elements, allowing the land to dictate the course, banning the use of carts, making the golfer feel at one with both nature and the game. To achieve that goal would take a great amount of planning and hard work, the struggle of man against nature in shaping the land into three courses that would become the Bandon Dunes complex. Conventional wisdom said it was impossible. And even if he built it, would anyone come to this remote Oregon outpost?
"Dream Golf" is the first complete account of how drive and determination, coupled with the best minds in the game, created a utopian golf experience in a place of breathtaking natural beauty. It is the gripping and compelling account of how one man followed his dream to its greatest conclusion.

In the summer of 1955, early in the modern civil rights era, six African American golfers in Beaumont, Texas, began attacking the Jim Crow caste system when they filed a federal lawsuit for the right to play the municipal golf course. The golfers and their African American lawyers went to federal court and asked a conservative white Republican judge to render a decision that would not only integrate the local golf course but also set precedent for desegregation of other public facilities, as well.In Fair Ways, Beaumont native Robert J. Robertson chronicles three parallel stories that converged in this important case. He tells the story of the plaintiffs-avid golfers who had learned the game while working as caddies and waiters-and their young lawyers, recent graduates from Howard University law school, and the Republican judge just appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower. Would the judge apply the new principles of Brown v. Board of Education to the questions before him? Would he use federal judicial power to override state laws and outlaw local customs?Fair Ways gives an uncommonly vivid picture of racial segregation and the forces that brought about its end. Using public case papers, public records, newspapers, and oral histories, Robertson has recreated the scene in Beaumont on the eve of desegregation, describing in detail the parallel white and black communities that characterized the Jim Crow caste system. Through this account, the forces at work in the South-education, military experience, rising expectations, the NAACP, and the rule of law-are personified dramatically by the golfers, the lawyers, and the judge.

In the ten years since Golf Anecdotes was first published, the game and its players have changed dramatically. This new edition, now with a foreword by Arnold Palmer and a new chapter covering the latest and greatest golf stars like Annika Sorenstam and Tiger Woods, reflects those changes. Readers can enjoy a sweeping look at this royal and ancient game, in a volume that is both an informal history as well as a vivid recounting of golf's most striking incidents and personalities.
Robert Sommers takes us on a grand tour that stretches from the game's dim origins in the 12th century right up to the modern PGA tour. Indeed, no other anecdote book offers this much historical depth or serves up such fascinating lore. We learn for instance that the first known golf match took place in 1504, between James IV of Scotland and the Earl of Bothwell. Sommers likewise paints a colorful portrait of golf in the era of the first professionals--Old Tom Morris, Allan Robertson, and Willie Park--describing the earliest rules, the equipment used, the most memorable events. Much of the book focuses on the 20th century. Here readers will find wonderful tales of Harry Vardon and Francis Ouimet, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, Joyce Wethered and Babe Zaharias, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Lee Trevino, Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam, Nick Faldo and Greg Norman, and of course, the amazing Tiger Woods. Thus the wide world of golf is presented, the first professionals and the latest stars, the double eagles and the double hits. Informative and highly entertaining, Golf Anecdotes will appeal to anyone who loves the game.

The PGA TOUR system thrives because it creates compelling, life-changing stories that lie within a golfer's quest for achievement. Life on the PGA TOUR is about navigating a complex qualification system that produces a series of dividing lines. These include making the tournament cut, qualifying for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and even making it onto the PGA TOUR. The dividing lines of the PGA TOUR are profoundly stark in the opportunities provided or not provided for a golfer, yet the outcomes of which side of one of those dividing lines a golfer ends up can be determined by the slightest margin. It is often only one stroke that provides the difference with every time that a golfer on the PGA TOUR swings a club having financial consequences. In speaking with more than 20 golfers on the PGA TOUR, the collection of stories about some professional golfers and their recent career storylines provides new insight into the PGA TOUR system. This collection of stories about golf tournament outcomes, the confluence of events that created the outcome, and the opportunities that result from that outcome show how season and careers on the PGA TOUR are quickly changed.

Finally, the nitty-gritty guide revealed by the pro showing you the full insights of secret strategies & techniques on how to improve your golf game for fun & profit You're about to discover the secret techniques on how to perfect your golf game for higher score & it works even on your virtual golf game experience Golf is an excellent game with a simple objective, that is to drive the ball into the hole. But as simple as this objective is, many peoples find it is not that easy or simple to be a champion nor playing to get their best score. Except you know what it takes to be a pro golfer. Being a pro golfer begins in the mind. You have to believe in yourself and believe you are capable of being a master of the game. This may look insignificant but it's very true. It has been discovered that people who believe in themselves in sports and other endeavors in life do better than others who are plagues by self doubt, low self esteem and lack of self confidence. So your journey to being a master golfer has to start in your mind. Do you believe you can do it? If you do, the initial setbacks and obstacles that come with learning new things or mastering a game will not deter you from your goal of being a pro golfer. I am sure by now you would like to learn how to play a great game of golf or play a better game of golf. The interest of golfing has seen an incredible rise in popularity over the past few decades, and that popularity continues to grow until today. There are so many resorts, vacation packages and even housing developments built around incredible golf courses to help peoples getting started on their golfing experience. Today, Many golfers find that once they start to play the game it becomes much more than a simple pastime, it becomes an obsession. Millions of people around the world are fans of the sport, and beginners and seasoned athletes alike often ask the same question. "How can I improve my golf swing?" For beginners learning to get a better swing usually involves reviewing the fundamentals and incorporating the correct equipment. Not only that, you also really need to understand the golf industry, and more importantly, the changes that are taking place within the game of golf. So, how to overcome this problem and how am i able to quickly learn the fundamentals about golf? That's right, I am about to show you the definitive guide with secret strategies on how to perfect your golf game, get a much higher score and choosing the right clubs in the shortest possible time This book is being written with the full insight about golf and it's unrevealed the right way and secret techniques to help you getting started to swing the ball on the green the easy way.

In the Little Book of Breaking 80, the author, a struggling amateur golfer who finally discovered the true keys to breaking 80 after more than 30 years of trial and error, blows the cover off of the hopelessly doomed conventional approach to golf improvement that keeps most golfers stuck on the endless merry-go-round of frustration and failure, and provides a realistic blueprint for breaking 80 that any golfer of any level can easily apply and quickly see real and lasting scoring improvement. This is not a book of swing techniques. There are plenty of other resources that teach you how to swing, chip and putt. What this book does provide is a true framework for breaking 80 based on sound principles that will work for any golfer of any level. Provided you faithfully follow and apply these principles, you will begin to improve surely and steadily, to the point where you will eventually gain the ability to break 80, not just as a one-time fluke, but over and over again as a reflection of your true new-found ability. Whether you're struggling to break 100, 90, 80 or even a complete beginner, the Little Book of Breaking 80 will help take your game to the next level