In this book, Patric Dickinson selects 18 of his favourite golf courses for analysis. He examines in detail the origins of courses including Ganton, Hoylake, Little Aston, Portrush, Sunningdale and Walton Heath, and also considers the effects inventions such as the rubber-cored ball had on course design. Dickinson's approach conveys to the reader both the delights and the hazards of each of the courses, adding touches of humour to his commentaries.
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poetically anecdotal tour of British golf courses,
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This review is from: A Round of Golf Courses: A Selection of the Best Eighteen (Golf Classics) (Paperback)
This book deserves to have been re-born, as it is a lovely, wistful glimpse into the soul of Britain's classic courses, such as Hoylake and Westward Ho! If ever a book personified a golf course, enticed you to explore the quiet beauties that get to the heart of the game, this is the one. Grasses whisper in the oceanic breeze, a brass bell sounds the all-clear in a vale at the trough of a blind fairway, sheep munch grass on the hillocks just shy of a dappled green. . . and every moment is rendered so vividly that you can wrap your fantasies around the experience. Surely one of the best golf books ever written, by a very fine British poet. If you have a romantic attachment to the game of golf, especially golf as it was meant to be played, here's the book for you.
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