Golf Books

I highly recommend Geoff Shackelford's book, The Golden Age of Golf Course Architecture. It's one of the great books of our generation.

Inside you will find the best source of photographic detail, excellent writing and great resource in the study of our great American courses and their now famous designers.

This is an excellent book for lovers of golf both young and old. The book contains great photographs from the USGA museum archives. Most of all it gives a very interesting look at golfs history, its legenday players and how the game has evolved.
If you have a set of clubs, love the game and its history - get this book.

Definitely one of the best 3D Pop-Up books I've run across in a long time! I just purchased an armful of them for gifts. Wow! Not only is John Garrity a fab writer for Sports Illustrated, but he certainly has a knack for this 3D thing... I wonder how I missed this when it first came out.

Look out, FOUR! Aficionados of that game of games, Golf, and the ultimate in Paper Art, pop-up books, will be struck with this delightful collectors item from John Garrity. It details, with great text and illustrations, a large slice of golfing history and the reader is hooked into participating in the book from T off to final putt down. Enlightening pop-ups, and there are 6 major and 10 minor spreads, go a fairway towards depicting the games origin, development and future possibilities. It chips away at the notion that golf is only for the rich and drives one to the inescapable conclusion that it truly is a wonderful game. A must for collectors, the green fields approach and no rough edges, allows one to have a ball displaying ones newly acquired knowledge. Mark this one on your card!

I've been playing golf since I was four. This book has definitely helped my game become more consistent. Get it.

Anyone interested in making thier golf game better should buy this book. Regardless of physical skill it teaches how to train your body by teaching your mind to focus more clearly, enjoy playing, and play more consistently. It uses NLP techniques and is one of the best books on NLP I've ever read. It has loads of visualisation excersises and strategies to elicit the perfect attitude more consistently and with more control. I am actually buying another copy!

I just proudly finished my first reading of Dave Ogilvie III's The Golfer's Dream and found it highly enjoyable both in the author's to the point writing style and informational content. A life-long player of 45 years, I was able to understand and visualize his concepts and looking forward to putting a few of his suggestions and techniques to work. My goal is to keep it simple and seems I was already performing many of the fundamentals. Although I may have peaked many years ago, certainly working on a better finish, better balance and an inside to out swing should certainly help. It was consoling to hear from Dave that the majority of my distance and swing speed was most likely set many years ago, at least that explains the inability to hit it 275 yards!!

I had the privilege of receiving instruction in my junior days from Dave's father, David Ogilvie, Jr. at the Jefferson-Lakeside Club in Richmond. He had many classic stories that are still remembered of the golf pro's from the 1920's and 30's. Tom Barry, our current Professional at Lakeside was Dave's Assistant at Flossmoor prior and I can also attest that he certainly is the most dedicated employee and we have been blessed to have him as well as David Ogilvie, Jr. as our head golf professionals.

I highly recommend The Golfer's Dream: A Dictionary of Golf's Woes and Cures for a good summary of the game's technique.

Dave Ogilivie III's written lessons will, without question, fix your game. Simple and effective solutions simple enough for the high handicappers to understand and learn from, solid enough for those at the other end of the spectrum.
He covers the mental and physical aspects of the game as well as anyone can do in print. THe book can be read topic by topic, no need for a front to back read.

I have known Dave since the 60's so my review is obviosly biased. The lessons, however, are the same I was given as a youth. Dave taught many young golfers over the ages and produced some very fine
golfers. A real gentleman and first rate teacher continuosly sought by the Chicago golfing crowd.

This is not another semi-psychotic analysis of the technical aspects of the golf swing. Golffirmations goes straight to the very heart of the game. It's a wise and warm reflection on
the game's fascinations, frustrations and fellowship. It offers, in equal doses, bits of history, doses of hilarity, and the high-five hallelujahs that keep us on the course. O'Neill may not have won a major but he's certainly written one. Great idea for Father's Day.

In a category filled with books about the technical aspects of the golf swing, O'Neill's book goes straight to the very heart of the game. Golffirmations is a wise and warm rumination on the diabolical pleasures of the game, its endless frustrations, fascinations and fellowship. Wonderfully written, breezy and full of bounce. O'Neill hasn't won a major but he's written one. Great Father's Day gift.

This is a hilarious little book of spoof golfing definitions written by golfers for golfers. It captures the disappointments and frustrations that all golfers know so well. Keep it as a reference guide!

If you are a golfer,, good or bad. This is a great book for you. Also give it as a gift to the golfer you know. It will cause you to laugh out loud, and you will see yourself and so many others within the pages. It`s just for fun, but packed with true-isms, and half true-isms! Good to pull out on those rainy days, while waiting at the 19th hole, or at golf parties !!!!

This is a "must have" for any Washington State golfer. This also makes a great gift for a golfer in your family. If you play golf and you don't have this book, BUY IT!

Daniel MacMillan has done it again. This is truely an awsome guide to the states golf courses. The information provided is both comprehensive and accurate to the smallest detail. Every golfer should have this book in his /her golf bag or vehicle for quick and easy access. What a handy and easy to use knowledge base.

For the casual golfer, this sport can be, as Mark Twain once said, a good walk spoiled. But for the true Golfoholic, the walk is never spoiled. Even when bitter cold rain is coming down sideways in a swirling wind and you've just lost your ball in the woods and thrown your putter in the pond. So you take a drop, chili-dip your next two shots into the drink so your balls can keep your flat stick company, and then chip one into the hole for a snowman. You turn to your golf buddies who are shaking their heads in disbelief and say, "Didn't need that crooked old stick after all." As you approach the next tee, one of them hands you a flask through the freezing rain and it's then you realize deep down that there's no place on God's green earth you'd rather be. If this sounds familiar, it's time you bellied up to the virtual bar at golfoholics.com

This is a golf book for anyone who's ever played the game. Heck, this is a book for anyone who's ever even thought about palying the game.
Because whether you love golf or hate it the stories in this book capture a humor that goes well beyond the game. Hackers, Duffers and yes, even serious golfers, unite and rejoice. See you at the 19th hole.

If you are someone like me who enjoys those very small sized books, you should enjoy this one. There are some hard facts about the game of golf, but the way they are presented is in keeping with the preciousness of the size of the book. While sometimes silly, sometimes sweet, the book is just the right size to keep tucked in your golf bag.

This book is delightful! Really, an attractive little book, that has drawings of professional women golfers (who knew there were so many?) and quotes and golf tips. It's just much more than I expected to find in a small, inexpensive book

It's one stop shopping for golf courses in NY. Organized geographically, it provides easy access to a listing of local public and private golf courses.

Knowing that the authors are golfers who have personnally visited all of the courses, assures me of a golfers perspective.

I keep one copy in my car and one at home. It has been extremely helpful in locating and reviewing golf courses for where ever I am in New York. A must have.