Golf in America - Hardcover

Peper, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810981238 ISBN 13: 9780810981232

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 1994

Synopsis

Offering a comprehensive overview of all aspects of golf in the United States, a visual delight for players and fans includes more than four hundred illustrations, rare historic photographs, cartoons, magazine covers, and portraits of famous golfers.

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Review:

Like baseball, golf is a game that loves to look back on itself, and this oversized volume, originally published in the late 1980s, does the retrospection splendidly. Touching on all aspects of the game--its history, its stars, its appeal, its courses, its equipment, and even some basic instruction--it both introduces and commemorates a sport with deep roots

From Publishers Weekly:

The first American golfer put stick to ball on Feb. 22, 1888 and since that time the game has burgeoned to include hundreds of courses and hundreds of thousands of players. This handsome volume, written principally by the editors of Golf magazine, pays tribute to that growth. Every conceivable aspect of the sport is covered: there is a brief historic overview, a look at amateur and professional champions, articles on the courses and their designers, on the best players of each decade (women are included from 1938), on the chroniclers of the game, the equipment. Also here are a compilation of the winners of major championships and a ranking of the world's top 100 courses. In addition, there are almost 500 illustrations, many in color. It's a lavish production. BOMC dividend selection; GolfSmart Book Club selection.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0810981238
• ISBN 13: 9780810981232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304