As the holiday season nears, what can you give the golfer on your list. When golf trips are not in your shopping budget, consider a great book on golf travel around the world. When golfers aren't playing golf, they love watching it and reading about it!
Here are some books to stir the imagination of the golfing enthusiasts you know. List prices are noted, but you can find some significant discounts. Check out your local bookstores as well as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Powell's for gorgeous coffee table golf books that even non-golfers would be tempted to leaf through.
THE TRADITIONAL GOLFER. For the more traditional golfer, the one who loves a bit of history, who thinks that links courses are the real golf, we recommend these:
The Spirit of St. Andrews by Alister MacKenzie and Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. (Foreword)
Hardcover, 29.95
True Links by George Peper and Malcolm Campbell Hardcover, 40.00
Another Journey through the Links by David Worley and Peter Thomson
Hardcover, 65.00
THE VANGUARD GOLFER. Is your golfer the cutting-edge type, always looking for what is new or exciting, imagining what the "best course ever" might look like? Try these:
Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes, Revised and Expanded by Stephen Goodwin. Hardcover, 24.95
Golf's Dream 18s: Fantasy Courses Comprised of Over 300 Holes from Around the World by David Barrett
THE ADVENTURE GOLFER. Perhaps your golf fanatic is dreaming of swinging clubs in all 50 states or on distant shores--if so, these could get him or her planning the next 10 years of golf vacations!
Planet Golf USA: The Definitive Reference to Great Golf Courses in America by Darius Oliver (Author) and Ben Crenshaw (Foreword)
Hardcover, 60.00
Planet Golf: The Definitive Reference to Great Golf Courses Outside the United States of America by Darius Oliver (Author) and David Scaletti (Photographer)
60.00, hardcover
World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They Are Played by Mark Rowlinson (Editor)
Hardcover, 39.95
Who knows? Even if you are not a golfer, taking time to look at some of these classy, well photographed and expertly written golf books could change your mind--and you'll be asking Santa for your own set of clubs and planning your own golf trips!
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