Golf by Design: How to Lower Your Score by Reading the Features of a Course [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Jones, Jr., Robert Trent

Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2005

About this Item

As new condition color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Foreword by Tom Watson; Introduction; Afterword: Golf in the New Millennium; Golf Courses Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and Acknowledgments. This is the First Little Brown paperback edition, first printing, May 2005, which is stated on the copyright page. "America's preeminent designer of golf courses reveals his secrets to playing better, smarter golf. Few people understand the game of golf better than Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the world-renowned architect of such courses as Princeville Resort in Hawaii, Weston Hills Country Club in Florida, Pueblo de Cochiti Golf Course in New Mexico, and Moscow Country Club in Russia, as well as the putting green on the White House lawn. In Golf by Design Jones draws on his lifetime of experience as both a designer and a player to teach golfers how to improve their game by analyzing each hole from a designer's perspective - how to beat the course by outwitting its architects. From tee to green, from fairway to rough, Jones decodes the designer's intentions, explaining how architects use optical illusions, elevation changes, forced carries, trees, sand, and even different types of grasses to challenge a golfer's playing skills. He then presents expert strategies for counterattack - from constructing the ideal approach shot to taking advantage of the wind and playing across water. Golf by Design will help you play your best game on any course. If you're a novice golfer, you'll find in these pages an invaluable introduction to a course's most rigorous challenges, along with sharp insights into all of the basic, critical elements of strategy and technique. If you're a seasoned player, you'll find the inside knowledge you need for lowering your handicap and permanently improving your game. Peppered with delightful personal anecdotes about the construction of many of the world's most dramatic courses, illustrated throughout with dazzling color photographs and instructive diagrams and drawings, Golf by Design is a not-to-be-missed guide to one of the world's best-loved pastimes." - from the outer rear cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Golf by Design: How to Lower Your Score by Reading the Features of a Course [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New