NCG’s Top 10: Best golf courses in the British Isles

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  • Where Golf Is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland

    • UPC: 791243652711
    • ASIN: 1579652719
    • ISBN: 1579652719
    • Brand: Artisan
    • Manufacturer: Artisan

    Every golfer who’s worth his favorite putter knows where golf is great: Scotland, birthplace of the game and still its most important shrine, from the splendor of St. Andrews to the regal resort at Gleneagles; and Ireland, where the links like Ballybunion and Royal County Down are of unsurpassed beauty and challenge. Whether golfers actually mak... [Read More]

  • Golf in Scotland: A Travel-Planning Guide with Profiles of 74 Great Courses

    • ASIN: 0971032653
    • ISBN: 0971032653
    • Manufacturer: WFPublishing

    Golf in Scotland is designed to help travelers plan affordable, informed golf trips to Scotland. Seven chapters offer advice on when to go, where to go, air travel, rental cars, lodging, and nongolf attractions. St. Andrews receives special attention in its own chapter. Thirteen itineraries present specific trip plans. Extensive descriptions of 74 ... [Read More]

  • A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

    • ASIN: B075RTTFLP
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “One of the best golf books this century.” —Golf Digest Tom Coyne’s A Course Called Scotland is a heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course in Scotland, the birthplace of the game he loves. For much of his adult life, bestselling author Tom Coyne has been chasing a golf b... [Read More]

  • Golf in Scotland: A Travel-Planning Guide with Profiles of 68 Great Courses

    • ASIN: 0971032629
    • ISBN: 0971032629
    • Brand: Brand: WFPublishing/WF Enterprises, Inc.
    • Manufacturer: WFPublishing/WF Enterprises, Inc.

    Golf in Scotland is designed to help travelers save money and plan their own golf-centered trips to Scotland, the "Home of Golf." Seven chapters offer advice on when to go, where to go, lodging, tee times, and other travel decisions. St. Andrews receives attention in its own chapter. Extensive descriptions of sixty-eight courses feature complete co... [Read More]

  • Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens: A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Scotland

    • ASIN: 0743264843
    • ISBN: 0743264843
    • Brand: Brand: Simon Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Every golfer alive knows that he or she has two ancestral homes: one's own, and Scotland. On her rolling shores the game of golf had its origins, and to walk the links of St. Andrews is to feel at one with the shepherd who decided one day to see how far he could whack a stone with his crook. Most serious golfers will make the pilgrimage to Scotland... [Read More]

  • Book of Irish Golf, The

    • ASIN: 1565543270
    • ISBN: 1565543270
    • Brand: Brand: Pelican Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing

    Explores the origins of golf in Ireland, including the legendary courses and players of this hugely popular sport.

  • Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies

    • ASIN: 0821261851
    • ISBN: 0821261851
    • Manufacturer: Bulfinch

    A unique and colorful collection of photographs featuring the under-celebrated wayward shot, its landing locale and the unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green.

  • The Architects of Golf: A Survey of Golf Course Design from Its Beginnings to the Present, With an Encyclopedic Listing of Golf Architects and Their Courses

    • ASIN: 0062700820
    • ISBN: 0062700820
    • Brand: Harpercollins
    • Manufacturer: Harpercollins

    Traces the evolution of golf course design

  • Two Years in St. Andrews: At Home on the 18th Hole

    • ASIN: B000GCFY08
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The Old Course at St. Andrews is to golfers what St. Peter's is to Catholics or the Western Wall is to Jews: hallowed ground, the course every golfer longs to play -- and master. In 1983 George Peper was playing the Old Course when he hit a slice so hideous that he never found the ball. But in looking for it, he came across a For Sale sign on a sto... [Read More]

  • 1000 Best Courses in Britain and Ireland (Golf World Guides)

    • ASIN: 1854109804
    • ISBN: 1854109804
    • Brand: Brand: Aurum Press
    • Manufacturer: Aurum Press

    Every two years, Golf World, Britain’s premier golfing magazine, conducts a definitive survey, from which they select the top 1,000 courses in Britain and Ireland. Information is gleaned from its own researchers and journalists, as well as contributions from independent experts, resulting in a guide that is both comprehensive and authoritative. T... [Read More]

  • 1000 Best Golf Courses in Britain and Ireland: Golf World

    • ASIN: 1854106236
    • ISBN: 1854106236
    • Brand: Brand: Aurum Pr Ltd
    • Manufacturer: Aurum Pr Ltd

    Book by Humberstone, Jim

  • The Scottish Golf Book

    • ASIN: 1583820531
    • ISBN: 1583820531
    • Brand: Brand: Sports Masters
    • Manufacturer: Sports Publishing LLC

    Golf is a Scottish game. It has been played by the Scots for centuries and Scotland is its spiritual and cultural home. This is a book devoted to one nation's devotion to a game of stick and ball which has bound its countrymen in a spell, and today casts its enchantment over the entire world. The Scottish Golf Book is a unique account of golf in it... [Read More]

  • Hallowed Ground: Golf's Greatest Places

    • ASIN: 0867130571
    • ISBN: 0867130571
    • Brand: Brand: The Greenwich Workshop Press
    • Manufacturer: The Greenwich Workshop Press

    Top golf landscape artist and top golf writer combine talents to produce a glorious visual book about the places we worship in the game of golf. Here are the green "cathedrals," sublime arenas of the sport, courses where giants have walked and stars have been born. Hallowed Ground is divided into three sections: "U.S. Championship Courses," "The Be... [Read More]

  • World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They are Played

    • ASIN: 0600617947
    • ISBN: 0600617947
    • Brand: Hamlyn
    • Manufacturer: Hamlyn

    When The World Atlas of Golf was first published, it set the standard by taking a uniquely global view of the game and the architects of course design. Now, more than 30 years later, it's completely revised with new text, spectacular illustrations, and dazzling photographs. From revered links, like St Andrews, to hidden gems, like Casa De Campo in ... [Read More]

  • World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They Are Played

    • ASIN: 0600613755
    • ISBN: 0600613755
    • Brand: Brand: Hamlyn
    • Manufacturer: Hamlyn

    It's the first true atlas for golfers-a comprehensive collection of maps, charts, records, course cards, and little-known facts. More than 70 of the world's greatest golf courses are covered, including the most challenging holes (the Eighth at Pebble Beach, the greens of Oakmont), as well as the most memorable performances. Lavish color photos of t... [Read More]

  • Golf, As it was in the Beginning: The Legendary British Open Courses

    • ASIN: 0789306832
    • ISBN: 0789306832
    • Brand: Brand: Universe
    • Manufacturer: Universe

    Who among golfers does not dream of one day playing the great windswept and gorse-filled seaside courses of the British Open-those seemingly natural and subtle but magnificently challenging courses, where even Tiger Woods can become "a cropper"? Who does not dream of teeing off the hallowed greens of Prestwick or Royal St. Georges, playing such fam... [Read More]

  • Classic Golf Links of England, Scotland, Wales, And Ireland

    • ASIN: 0882899651
    • ISBN: 0882899651
    • Brand: Brand: Pelican Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing

    Seaside links courses offer golfers unmatched challenges and enchanting scenery. And while they can be found in many parts of the world, the links of the British Isles are the most famous in their class.Donald Steel takes readers on a tour of seventy-five spectacular greens along windswept beaches and sheer cliffs of Britain and Ireland. These link... [Read More]

  • The Seventh at St. Andrews: How Scotsman David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band Built theFirst New Course onGolf's Holy Soil in Nearly a Century

    • ASIN: 1592403220
    • ISBN: 1592403220
    • Brand: The Booklegger
    • Manufacturer: Gotham

    Documents the efforts of an acclaimed golf course architect to design a history-making new course in the town of St. Andrews, a decade-long effort challenged by political factors and other obstacles. 35,000 first printing.

  • Golfing in Ireland: The Most Complete Guide For Adventurous Golfers

    • ASIN: 1589804880
    • ISBN: 1589804880
    • Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing

    Ireland is Europe�s hottest golfing destination and one of the most popular golf venues for Americans eager to sample the emerald links. In his third edition, Armstrong revisits old courses that have undergone revision or expansion and uncovers the best of Ireland�s new golf clubs. He also reviews several new hotels and restaurants that c... [Read More]

  • A Difficult Par: Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the Making of Modern Golf

    • ASIN: 1592408230
    • ISBN: 1592408230
    • Manufacturer: Avery

    The definitive account of modern golf’s foremost architect from the New York Times bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong  Robert Trent Jones was the most prolific and influential golf course architect of the twentieth century and became the archetypical modern golf course designer. Jones spread the gospel of golf by d... [Read More]

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