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Golf Courses of the PGA Tour | 
 enlarge | Author: George Peper
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
Buy Used: $1.52
You Save: $48.48 (97%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 936419
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9.6 x 1.3
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35206873
ASIN: B001H55MDC
Publication Date: November 1, 2004
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Amazon.com Review
As lavish as the layouts it celebrates, Golf Courses of the PGA Tour offers a comprehensive tour of each of the permanent PGA stops. Profusely illustrated with lush photography and painted routing plans for each 18, it's a veritable feast to look at, and a fascinating read, as well. Teed up to match the week-in, week- out schedule of the competitive season, the book begins in California with the Mercedes Championship at La Costa and ends with the Tour Championship (which rotates courses) and the unofficial events, including the Skins Game and the Plantation Course of the Kapalua International. For each venue, it presents concise tournament and course histories, hole-by-hole scorecards, a quick playing tip from a winner at each venue (Phil Mickelson on playing low shots at Torrey Pines, Raymond Floyd on hitting a draw at Doral, Arnold Palmer on whacking long irons at Bay Hill, Nick Price on driving for accuracy at Cog Hill), and heads for home with an extensive collection of PGA Tour records and statistics. Both useful and attractive, it's the kind of book that should wedge itself perfectly onto the coffee table of any golf enthusiast. --Jeff Silverman
Product Description
As lush as the gorgeously landscaped courses it covers, this completely new edition of the most successful golf book in Abrams' history takes readers on a highly entertaining "tour of the Tour," this time following the tournaments of the 2005 PGA season. The author, a noted golf authority who for 25 years was GOLF Magazine's editor-in-chief, provides an anecdotal history of each tournament, along with valuable tips on how to play specific shots. Complementing the text are beautiful color photographs of all the sites, including rarely seen views of the courses that are joining the Tour for the first time in 2005.
Comprehensive statistical tables for each tournament, schematic maps or drawings of each course, yardage and par information for each hole of each course, and detailed descriptions of the most challenging holes help make this carefully researched and wonderfully readable book an invaluable addition to the golfer's bookshelf. From the armchair golfer who follows the Tour on television to the active player seeking inspiration and information, this sumptuous volume makes the perfect gift for any links fan. AUTHOR BIO: George Peper, editor-in-chief of GOLF Magazine for 25 years, wrote the first and second editions of this book. He lives and golfs in St. Andrews, Scotland.
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I'm very pleased with this purchase March 22, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book to use as our Guest Book at our wedding this summer. Our wedding and reception are at a golf course, so we thought this would be a fitting book for our guests to sign. There are many beautiful pictures, and plenty of space for them to write their wishes. For our purposes, I absolutely love the book! I recommend it to anyone - I think it's a great coffee table read!
Beautiful book for the golfer & golf fan March 18, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This deluxe volume covers each of the courses on the PGA Tour and has several full color pictures of key holes on each course covered. Since some PGA tour events are replaced by new ones, the book may become slightly dated but, nonetheless, it is a great spectator's guide for those who watch the tour each week on TV or who occasionally attend tour events in person. The volume also includes a great map of each course covered. This is useful because it puts the course in perspective, For example, I have seen the famous 13th hole at Augusta National on TV many times but never appreciated how sharp a dogleg it is until seeing the map. Also, the map shows the direction each hole runs in relation to other holes. For example one hole may go out and the next hole come back in the opposite direction. The maps give you this perspective. Another great feature of the book is a short piece written by a golfer who has won the tournament played on that course. I highly recommend this wonderful book.
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