The History of the Newport Country Club
Title | The History of the Newport Country Club PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Waterman |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2013-12-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780692241837 |
The Newport Country Club
Title | The Newport Country Club PDF eBook |
Author | Alan T. Schumacher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Country clubs |
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The American Country Club
Title | The American Country Club PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Mayo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Country clubs |
ISBN |
Newport History
Title | Newport History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Newport (R.I.) |
ISBN |
To The Nines
Title | To The Nines PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Pioppi |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2015-05-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1630760846 |
To the Nines will introduce you to a whole new golfing experience by sharing the stories of nineteen nine-hole layouts across the country. Fenwick, Katherine Hepburn's playground, dates back to the 1890s. Just before a hurricane destroyed her family home in 1938, Hepburn aced Fenwick's ninth hole and shot even par. Long before Mike Keiser set out to turn a chunk of Oregon coast into one of the world's great golf destinations, he built The Dunes Club, easily the finest nine-hole course of the modern era. To the Nines will send you on a mission to discover the roots of the game, and to seek out your own unique and unheralded courses. This second edition includes recent renovations and rebunkering of several of these classic “nines” as well as a chapter on a newly built course.
Tiger Woods
Title | Tiger Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Benedict |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 150112644X |
The inspiration for the HBO documentary from Academy Award–winning producer Alex Gibney. The #1 New York Times bestseller based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life—this “comprehensive, propulsive…and unsparing” (The New Yorker) biography is “an ambitious 360-degree portrait of golf’s most scrutinized figure…brimming with revealing details” (Golf Digest). In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. But it turned out he had been living a double life for years—one that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really? Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come. “Irresistible…Immensely readable…Benedict and Keteyian bring us along for the ride in a whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true” (The Wall Street Journal). Ultimately, Tiger Woods is “a big American story…exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure” (The New York Times).
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 |
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.