Golf Digest's Places to Play, 4th Edition: 6,000 Public and Resort Courses in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Islands, with the Latest Player Ratings (Special-Interest Titles) [Paperback]

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Series: Special-Interest Titles | Publication Date: May 2, 2000

Golf Digest's Places to Play 4ed."The veritable bible of daily-fee courses in the United States." -- Philadelphia Inquirer"Extraordinary...as important a companion for the traveling golfer as a favorite pair of spikes." -- Los Angeles TimesThe only guide you need to the public and resort golf courses of North America and the Islands, with comments and ratings by more than 20,000 avid players.

Complete Profiles of 6,000 public and resort courses  Addresses, greens fees, pars, yardage, USGA slope and course ratings, caddies, carts, lodging, practice ranges, and course policies

Travel Tips  How to get the most out of a golf trip

Candid Appraisals  Players evaluate enjoyment, landscaping and scenery, playability, and uniqueness of terrain

Golf Digest's Picks  America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses 1999-2000 and Best New Courses 1999-2000, as chosen by the prestigious Golf Digest selection panel

Find What You Want  Choose courses that offer great value, great service, great pace, and great conditioning

Easy-to-Use Indexes  Alphabetical and geographical lists make it a cinch to locate courses

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Golf Digest's Places to Play 4ed."The veritable bible of daily-fee courses in the United States." -- Philadelphia Inquirer"Extraordinary...as important a companion for the traveling golfer as a favorite pair of spikes." -- Los Angeles TimesThe only guide you need to the public and resort golf courses of North America and the Islands, with comments and ratings by more than 20,000 avid players.

Complete Profiles of 6,000 public and resort courses  Addresses, greens fees, pars, yardage, USGA slope and course ratings, caddies, carts, lodging, practice ranges, and course policies

Travel Tips  How to get the most out of a golf trip

Candid Appraisals  Players evaluate enjoyment, landscaping and scenery, playability, and uniqueness of terrain

Golf Digest's Picks  America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses 1999-2000 and Best New Courses 1999-2000, as chosen by the prestigious Golf Digest selection panel

Find What You Want  Choose courses that offer great value, great service, great pace, and great conditioning

Easy-to-Use Indexes  Alphabetical and geographical lists make it a cinch to locate courses

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Welcome to Golf Digest's Places to Play

Golf course construction continues, providing golfers with more places to tee up their golf ball. The growth of the game shows no sign of abating. There are new courses on mountain tops, across searing deserts, amid tropical jungles, alongside oceans, and downtown in a city near you. Never has there been such a choice of great places to go and play golf.

Faced with so many options, how do you decide which course deserves your money? There's nothing worse than paying out a hefty green fee only to be confronted by a boring layout in bad condition, where the staff is rude and the sandwiches in the clubhouse are stale.

As with all good decisions, the key is in having the right information, and that's where Golf Digest's Places to Play steps in. The goal of Places to Play is simple: to provide you with the most comprehensive information on public-access golf courses in North America. No one else has attempted to rate all of the best courses on a national basis. And the courses are not rated by the editors of Golf Digest, nor by a panel of experts, but by the most knowledgeable people in the game: you the golfers.

Places to Play is the only book you'll need to plan your golf vacation or find a new and interesting course to play.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1104 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 4th edition (May 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679005390
• ISBN-13: 978-0679005391
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,934,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Golf Digests place to play, June 5, 2000

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John Weatherhead (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golf Digest's Places to Play, 4th Edition: 6,000 Public and Resort Courses in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Islands, with the Latest Player Ratings (Special-Interest Titles) (Paperback)

A great book which allows you to book tee times all over the U.S. Information is correct and reviews are interesting. Reviews seem to be very accurate in the courses I have played. A book a true golfer cannot survive without.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fodor's Golf Digest's Places to Play, May 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Golf Digest's Places to Play, 4th Edition: 6,000 Public and Resort Courses in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Islands, with the Latest Player Ratings (Special-Interest Titles) (Paperback)

This is an invaluable guide to the best golf in the U.S. I can't imagine planning a golf trip without it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect, October 5, 2000

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Mark D. Stenner "mdstenner" (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golf Digest's Places to Play, 4th Edition: 6,000 Public and Resort Courses in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Islands, with the Latest Player Ratings (Special-Interest Titles) (Paperback)

This is a truly excellent guide. I would recommend this to any golfer wanting to try new tracks. Having taken up golf again six months ago and having just moved to Oklahoma from Mass. I needed a solid review book to begin exploring my local environs. This book has come up trumps again and again - providing an accurate overview of courses in my area, throughout the rest of the state, and all over the country. I wouldn't agree with every course review but that is part of the fun, and course conditions and upkeep can change in a short period so it would be churlish to nit-pick. Thanks to this sterling guide (my only complaint - some of the distances form major cities are off) I've played some great courses I would never have come across. Indispensable and superior, by a long, long way, to anything else out there. Bravo Golf Digest!