Golf Architecture for Normal People Sharpening Your Course Design Eye to Make Golf (Slightly) Less Maddening
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Publisher
Tatra Press
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9781732222755 ISBN-10: 1732222754Synopsis
In Golf Architecture for Normal People, golf architecture expert Geoff Shackelford elucidates the world' s most interactive art form in ways that all golfers can enjoy. For those smitten by this centuries-old sport, Shackelford takes readers on a fun walking tour through what is often considered a rarefied field and achieves the following along the way: –Helps golfers of all skill levels become keener observers while getting more joy out of playing any course –Introduces simple and easy-to-remember ways to judge a design's merits –Cuts through entrenched architectural snootiness to drive home the importance of a few timeless design tenets –Demystifies the complex, interdependent and often perplexing array of factors that make a course fun to play –Provides readers new tools to achieve a more sophisticated understanding what they love (or hate) about a design –Suggests diplomatic ways to disarm design elitists and settle 19th-hole debates -Advises how to merge technology and common sense to decode deceptive design elements –Shares lists of must-see courses and resources to further your connoisseurship.
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Dimensions
7.5 inches × 0.7 inches × 5.5 inches
0.220462262 pounds
Dewey Decimal
796.352068