St. Andrews & The Open Championship: The Official History - Hardcover

Joy, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1886947260 ISBN 13: 9781886947269

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press, 1999

Synopsis

When one thinks of the Open Championship (British Open), it’s hard not to think of the Old Course at St. Andrews as well. And no wonder. The Open Championship was first played at St. Andrews in 1873. Since then, the Open has returned to St. Andrews again and again. Each time, the game has been better for it.

St. Andrews & The Open Championship: The Official History, is a detailed, chronological record of all the Opens that have taken place on the Old Course in the past 130 years. The text, by third generation St. Andrean David Joy, is fully researched and highly informative. The color photography, by Iain MacFarlane Lowe, is some of the most beautiful of the Old Course — or any other course — that you will ever see. Plus, the book is filled with vintage photos and additional documents that help define the true importance of this historical event.

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Review:

The history of St. Andrews may not tell the whole story of golf, but it certainly provides the early chapters--as well as significant new episodes along the way. To help commemorate the Open Championship's return to the Royal and Ancient grounds in 2000, St. Andrews fetes the game's most hallowed pasture. With sprightly text and enough pictures to weigh down a caddie, it tells the stories of the 25 British Opens--from 1873 to John Daly's improbable triumph in 1995--that have gone out from the shadow of the intimidating stone clubhouse and returned, after battling winds, bunkers, gorse, and all kinds of troubles big and small, to the beckoning arms of the legendary Home Hole. --Jeff Silverman

From the Inside Flap:

St. Andrews—it is the Home of Golf. There is no other place in the golfing world like it. This hallowed site encapsulates the spirit of the game and these fairways have been witness to all of the highs and lows that the Open Championship has had to offer.

Many golfers over the years have tried to tame the undulating links of St. Andrews. Old Tom Morris and his son, Young Tom, came as close as anyone could to mastering the majestic course with eight Championships between them. A list of extraordinary champions—Taylor, Snead, Thomson, Locke, Lema, Nicklaus, Ballesteros, and Faldo—are a true testament to the course’s greatness. It toyed with Jones before sharing the secrets of victory, and eternally kept Palmer at bay, though the crowds were always on his side.

St. Andrews & The Open Championship: The Official History contains the finest collection of photographs ever assembled, with stories intertwined that read as if Old Tom Morris wrote them himself. The course photography by Iain Macfarlane Lowe will set a new standard of quality, artistic merit, and sheer beauty. His six years of studying the course with his camera has captured the many moods of this temperamental, stunning, rare, and always changing, but ever-appealing home they call St. Andrews—The Old Course.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1886947260
• ISBN 13: 9781886947269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240