 Price: $24.00
Features
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Abrams Books October 1, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810994038
ISBN-13: 978-0810994034
Product Dimensions:
13.1 x 10.1 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.8 pounds
Product Description
Product Description
A breathtaking tour around more than 130 of the world’s finest golf courses, this exciting book focuses on courses outside the United States. Many fabulous courses will be new to the American reader, and are featured in magnificent photographs made especially for this book. Generously oversized, Planet Golf is a treasure trove of new information and great ideas for the golfing traveler. Comments on the courses by leading designers such as Greg Norman, Pete Dye, Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Doak, Gary Player, Tom Weiskopf, and others accompany the authoritative text by Darius Oliver.
Featuring courses in more than twenty countries, from the famous links of Scotland and Ireland to the leading Heathland and Sandbelt classics of England and Australia, and from the hidden gems of France, New Zealand, and Japan to the best within the rest of Europe, Africa, North and Central America, Australia, and Asia, Planet Golf is the definitive reference to the greatest golf courses available outside the United States.
About The Author
Darius Oliver is a noted golf writer and a regular contributor to magazine ranking panels. He visited more than 650 courses before selecting the ones featured in Planet Golf.
David Scaletti is widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s leading landscape golf photographers.
Owner Reviews
This book is a bargain at the original price. At $24 it is a steal. I have just bought five copies, ordered through Amazon, to give to my best golfing friends. The photography is superb, as is the book's production quality. I am both a keen golfer and photographer, as you can see from my other reviews, and I commend David Scaletti for his extraordinary work. The narrative by Darius Oliver is wonderfully frank, well-argued and original. I particularly enjoyed his rapturous endorsement of two clubs of which I am a member. (I'm sorry but I'm not going to tell you which they are, but they feature prominently in the listing of Top Courses in the back of the book.) I also enjoyed his clear and joyous descriptions of each of his favorite courses throughout the world (excluding the U.S.). The focus of the book is on the courses outside America, because so much excellent material already exists on the Top U.S. Courses. Having recently been to Augusta I am fully aware of the absolute excellence of Golf Courses in the U.S., but am pleased to see the rest of the World's Top Courses given some serious attention. The book covers the Best Courses in the UK and Ireland, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and Central America, Asia and Africa. If you are like me you will be planning many trips to visit these Masterpieces of World Golf.
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