dronfield
Newbie
The Art of Coarse Golf is a good read
I've got The Match on my golf books shelf - to be read. I need a book for the next few days so may well take that one with me.Lots to choose from, albeit not quite as many as there are about cricket or baseball.
My favourite has to be The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Mark Frost, which is about the encounter at Cypress Point in 1956 between Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan and Ken Venturi and Harvie Ward.
I also enjoyed:
To The Linksland by Michael Bamberger, about his year long adventure as a caddy for Peter Teravainen on the European Tour, and his lessons with the legendary Scottish teacher John Stark.
My Baby Got The Yips by Richard Russell, 6 handicapper at Sunningdale and self confessed 'ordinary golfer'. Very funny.
Are all these books being mentioned instruction books, or history books?
I’ve only ever read one instruction book, Tiger’s How I play golf. It was boring as hell.
Pretty much anything of John Feinstein's early stuff
Lots to choose from, albeit not quite as many as there are about cricket or baseball.
My favourite has to be The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Mark Frost, which is about the encounter at Cypress Point in 1956 between Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan and Ken Venturi and Harvie Ward.
I also enjoyed:
To The Linksland by Michael Bamberger, about his year long adventure as a caddy for Peter Teravainen on the European Tour, and his lessons with the legendary Scottish teacher John Stark.
My Baby Got The Yips by Richard Russell, 6 handicapper at Sunningdale and self confessed 'ordinary golfer'. Very funny.
Not sure what it's called but the one where a journalist is a caddy for a European tour journeyman. Finished it in a day
Bobby Jones' book has some instruction - but for Jones the game of golf came down to taking a stance; address the ball - then whack it. Very, very little about swing technicalities or technique - and that's why I like it - and that's the way I'm changing to play.Are all these books being mentioned instruction books, or history books?
I’ve only ever read one instruction book, Tiger’s How I play golf. It was boring as hell.
Four iron In The Soul by Lawrence Donegan, a great read. Link
A History of Golf by Robert Browning obviously covers the development of the game and the St Andrews part in it and such as why we play 18 holes. Don’t recall there being anything much on the individual holes though. But it’s a very interesting read.Any other recommendations of golf books on St Andrews, esp on the architecture please