Wide Open Fairways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wide Open Fairways write by Bradley S. Klein. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Wide Open Fairways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In golf the playing field is also landscape, where nature and the shaping of it conspire to test athletic prowess. As golf courses move away from the "big business, pristine lawn" approach of recent times, Bradley S. Klein, a leading expert on golf course design and economics, finds much to contemplate, and much to report, in the way these wide-open spaces function as landscapes that inspire us, stimulate our senses, and reveal the special nature of particular places. A meditation on what makes golf courses compelling landscapes, this is also a personal memoir that follows Klein's own unique journey across the golfing terrain, from the Bronx and Long Island suburbia to the American prairie and the Pacific Northwest. Whether discussing Robert Moses and Donald Trump and the making of New York City, or the role of golf in the development of the atomic bomb, or the relevance of Willa Cather to how the game has taken hold in the Nebraska Sandhills, Klein is always looking for the freedom and the meaning of golf's wide-open spaces. And as he searches, he offers a deeply informed and absorbing view of golf courses as cultural markers, linking the game to larger issues of land use, ecology, design, and imagination. Purchase the audio edition.
Long Island Golf
Long Island Golf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Long Island Golf write by Phil Carlucci. This book was released on 2015-06-01. Long Island Golf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the European sport of golf found its way to Long Island and took root in the Hamptons at Shinnecock Hills in 1891, its journey across the Atlantic served as the opening drive of a recreational era that now spans three centuries. Home to more than 130 golf courses, the area boasts prestigious American clubs overlooking picturesque Atlantic bays and inlets, along with public layouts climbing and descending the region's sloping terrain. Long Island is home to the most popular municipal golf facility in the country, the centerpiece of which is Bethpage Black, "the People's Country Club." Celebrated architects like A.W. Tillinghast, Devereux Emmet, Seth Raynor, and C.B. Macdonald built many of Long Island's famous courses, which have challenged the brightest of golf's stars. International tournaments and star-studded exhibitions have all been decided on Long Island turf, helping it grow into one of the world's most prominent golf settings.
Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas
Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas write by James W. Finegan. This book was released on 2007-01-09. Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A passionate advocate and a charming storyteller, Finegan combines a writer's eye, a historian's knowledge, and a golfer's sense of wonder to provide an impossibly ambitious grand tour of this beautiful land.
Blue Fairways
Blue Fairways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Fairways write by Charles Slack. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Blue Fairways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A duffer's odyssey on the public links from Maine to Key West. A golfing everyman takes us on a pilgrimage, playing public golf courses along Route 1 down the east coast of the United States. From his first round with French-Canadian partners amidst the potato fields of northern Maine to his final round against a setting tropical sun in Key West, Charlie Slack chronicles the best and worst of the public-golf experience. Each round introduces a new set of partners and opens a window onto a new locale, whether it's the manicured suburbs of Connecticut, the worn-down urban centers of the Northeast Corridor, or the sun-drenched golfing havens of the South. Here in the land of new beginnings, Charlie Slack lives out every golfer's fantasy, a fresh start and a pristine fairway each and every morning. An utterly charming tale of a quintessentially American journey of discovery.
Insiders' Guide® to Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand
Insiders' Guide® to Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insiders' Guide® to Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand write by Janice McDonald. This book was released on 2009-12-22. Insiders' Guide® to Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insiders' Guide to St. Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this popular South Carolina vacation destination. Written by a local (and true insider), it offers a personal and practical perspective of Myrtle Beach and environs. Fully revised and updated, the 10th edition also features a new interior layout and a new cover treatment.
