Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas

Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas
Title Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas PDF eBook
Author James W. Finegan
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 310
Release 2007-01-09
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1416532986

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A passionate advocate and a charming storyteller, Finegan combines a writer's eye, a historian's knowledge, and a golfer's sense of wonder to provide an impossibly ambitious grand tour of this beautiful land.

Sacred Mobilities

Sacred Mobilities
Title Sacred Mobilities PDF eBook
Author Avril Maddrell
Publisher Routledge
Pages 242
Release 2016-03-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317060318

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This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Consideration of a wide range of spiritual meanings and practices also sheds light on the motivations and experiences associated with particular mobilities. Drawing on rich, situated case studies, this multi-disciplinary collection discusses what mobility in the social sciences, arts and humanities can tell us about movements and journeys prompted by religious, more broadly ’spiritual’ and 'secular-sacred' practices and priorities. Problematizing the fixity of sacred places and times as territorially and temporally bounded entities that exist in opposition to ’profane’ everyday life, this collection looks at the intersection between the embodied-emotional-spiritual experience of places, travel, belief-practices and communities. It is this geographically-informed perspective on the interleaving of religious/ spiritual/ secular notions of the sacred with the material and more-than-representational attributes of associated mobilities and related practices which constitutes this volume’s original contribution to the field.

The 500 World's Greatest Golf Holes

The 500 World's Greatest Golf Holes
Title The 500 World's Greatest Golf Holes PDF eBook
Author George Peper
Publisher Artisan Books
Pages 460
Release 2003-04-01
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9781579652371

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Provides descriptions and anecdotes about the greatest golf holes from courses around the world.

Historical Dictionary of Golf

Historical Dictionary of Golf
Title Historical Dictionary of Golf PDF eBook
Author Bill Mallon
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Pages 865
Release 2011-01-21
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0810874652

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Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf being played in the low countries of Europe back in the 13th century. Over the many centuries of golf's evolution, the balls used have changed greatly, as have the clubs, the holes, the courses, and the entire game itself. The Historical Dictionary of Golf presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photos, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on places, teams, terminology, and people, including Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sörenstam, Lorena Ochoa, Phil Mickelson, and, of course, Tiger Woods. Appendixes of the members of the World Golf Hall of Fame, the Major Championships of Golf, the International Team Events, and the Professional Tour Awards are also included.

Ancestral Links

Ancestral Links
Title Ancestral Links PDF eBook
Author John Garrity
Publisher Penguin
Pages 308
Release 2009
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9780451225917

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An award-winning golf writer for Sports Illustrated follows his family's obsession with golf on a personal odyssey that takes him to his ancestral home in Ireland, now home to a magnificent golf course, to Musselburgh, Scotland, home of his maternal ancestors, and to Wisconsin, where his father learned to play.

Be the Pine, Be the Ball

Be the Pine, Be the Ball
Title Be the Pine, Be the Ball PDF eBook
Author Paul J. Zingg
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 284
Release 2018-04-27
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1984516884

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Focusing on the landscapes and memory of golf and examining the games nature and appeal, this collection of seventy-two haiku poems and essays aims to lead readers to a fuller appreciation of the culture and history of golf and a deeper awareness of a players place in the game. Be the Pine, Be the Ball also reveals the compelling beauty and power of haiku, the most popular poetic form in the world. Through the brevity of its style, precise language, and ability to reveal how ordinary moments and elements of our lives are pathways to a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us, haiku can have both a meditative and consequential effect on the reader. A key to the connection between haiku and golf is that both foster powers of concentration and detailed observation with a related reduction of distractions. Both seek to cultivate a more tranquil and disciplined mind and to translate that condition into how a life is lived and a game is played.

Aftermaths

Aftermaths
Title Aftermaths PDF eBook
Author Marcus Paul Bullock
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 268
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 0813544068

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Aftermaths offers compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora. Ten contributors-well-established scholars and promising new voices-working in different disciplines and drawing from diverse backgrounds present rich case studies from around the world. Seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays take on a wide range of subjects such as the influence of religion upon diasporic consciousness, the conflict between the local and the transnational, the fate of historical tragedy in globalization, the reinvention of social bonds across migrations, and the agoni.