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In addition, as an avid player of golf and bridge, he had an active social life that was interconnected with a large circle of influential friends in the United States."--Jacket.
The trend for building & playing 'non-regulation' courses is growing. This collection of 78 articles gives an overview of how they are developed, managed, why they attract golfers, & how they achieve success. Many of these articles provide profiles of successful alternative courses. Some of the topics are: Cayman courses, practice ranges that have a 9-hole, par-3 course, building your own putting green, amenities for real estate developments, sports complexes, the Downtown Chicago Golf Center, economic advantages in building a short course, junior golf facilities, purchasing courses, family oriented golf, architecture & design, the Denver municipal courses, affordability, & marketing. This is a NGF InfoPac publication. InfoPacs are bound collections of full-text articles, compiled & copied from various golf industry magazines, newsletters, & journals.
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Steve Eubanks lives on a golf course, spends most of his time with a golf club in his hand, and simply cannot pass a course without playing it. In Golf Freek, he chronicles his travels around the globe for the sole purpose of playing as much free golf—the operative word being free—in as many interesting places and with as many interesting people as possible. As Steve himself says, “This book is not some mystic search to find my soul through a ball-and-stick metaphor. It’s about me, the golf freek, sponging free golf. It’s a mixture of On the Road (without the booze, hookers, guns, and poverty) and Rick Reilly’s Who’s Your Caddy? (with John Daly keeping his private parts to himself).” Along the way he tells some of the world’s greatest golf stories—funny, touching, bizarre, and sometimes personal—from his rounds with Arnold Palmer to his hole in one in the Chinese town where his daughter was born. These tales, taken together, add up to one of the most revealing books about
The author explores the history of the Augusta National Golf Club and its connection with the rich and famous. "Behind the wondrous scenes and memorable tournament play, however, resides a secretive and clannish club with a gentlemen-only membership of three hundred."--Jacket