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The Whole Golf Book

Everything You Never Knew about the Fascinating Game of Golf... Including How to Improve Your Game

by (author) John MacIntyre

Publisher
Sourcebooks
Initial publish date
Mar 2005
Category
Golf
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781402203541
    Publish Date
    Mar 2005
    List Price
    $13.95

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Description

The Whole Golf Book is a romp through one of the most popular sports of the twenty-first century. From profiles of Nicklaus, Hogan, Sorenstam to the story behind the Masters, it is all here. The World Ice Golf Championship to the hole-in-one and a special chapter on Tiger (where did he get his name, and why does he wear red and black on the final day), there simply is not a divot left unturned.

Also included in The Whole Golf Book:
* Presidential golf
* The greatest golfers, greatest rivalries and greatest victories
* The business deal and the golf course
* Black and white. . .race in the game of golf
* Great courses and a history of golf course architecture
* Quotes by the famous and not so famous about their sport
* A historical time line dating to 1353 and containing the most significant dates in golf history
* Training and golfing tips
* And so much more!

About the author

John MacIntyre is a journalist, a writer, and an editor. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Lawyer, and he writes a syndicated column, "Figuratively Speaking," which appears in more than 70 newspapers in the United States and Canada. He lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Janice Wells is a well-known Newfoundland and Labrador writer, a columnist for the Western Star, and the author of Another Splash of the Gin & Tonic Gardener, Definitely Not Martha Stewart, Frank Moores: The Time of His Life, and The Gin & Tonic Gardener.

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