Biographies, books and DVDs
 

Still a couple of months till the season starts. Unfortunately my Florida trip was cancelled. What to do. I could always read some golf biographies.

My question for you are: Which player biographies or other golfrelated books are your favorites. I'm not thinking of books on swingmechanics here, those, I know, are mentioned in http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=2599

Let me know what you've read (or seen on DVD) about the old champs, great tournaments, legendary rounds of golf and so on.....

Hi Thom, it's really old, but have you read The Bogey Man by George Plimpton? Still one of my favorites as it has a ton of stories about the old days and the characters that used to play the tour.

Kevin

"The Match" if you havent read it is a great read.

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I just finished "The Match" and have to agree that it is a fantastic book, I read it over 3 nights sitting up into the wee hours last night to finish it.

Mark Frost who wrote it also wrote "The Greatest Game ever played" which I haven't read but did see the movie of and I highly recommend it for your DVD.

I was just going to start a thread on this myself so well done, good topic!

If you can get hold of it, "The Art of Coarse Golf" by Michael Green is absolutely hilarious from start to finish, I can't recommend it enough.

Click here for coarse golf!

I read Arnie's biography a while back and thought it was very good. I have Hogan's to read soon and can't wait after getting a taste of it in "The Match"

Try...
 

..."Dead Solid Perfect" by Dan Jenkins. Hilarious...even better than the HBO movie adaptation in which Dan had a cameo appearance.:laughing9

Hooked on Classics
 

For starters...Sir Walter and Mr. Jones by Stephen Lowe depicted the diiiferent but interconnected lives and the development of golf during the rise of these two great champions. Lowe won a USGA Book Award for his effort.

The Greatest Game Ever Played (also a USGA Award Winner) and The Grand Slam (another book about Jones) are two outstanding books by Mark Frost. Both are well reasearched and enlightening. If Frost could have got the ending to the 80's telivision shown "Twin Peaks" right, I would have been much happier, but that is another story for another time.

Anything by my alltime favorite golf writer P.G. Wodehouse: The Golf Ominbus, the Clicking of Cuthbert or The Heart of a Goof are my favorite three. Humerous fiction as told by the Oldest Member. You won't be able to put it down. Light a fire, pour youself a single malt and sit back in your easy chair. Wodehouse will never let you down.

Another outstanding book of golf humor is David Ferherty's second book "Somewhere in Ireland a Village is Missing an Idiot". I was reading it late one night in bed and laughing so much, I continuously kept waking my wife up. Needless to say I slept on the couch that night.

If you are interested in the history of golf, especially in America, get a copy of The Story of Golf in American by Herbert Warren Wind, another author that will not disappoint.

I will post a few more when time allows. If you have a specific favorite area let me know: golf course architecture, tournaments, fiction, clubmaking, mental side, etc.

thanks mates!
 

I'll look into getting all of them.

I just received James Dodsons biography "Ben Hogan", and "To the linksland" by Michael Bamberger, I ordered "The Match", and Joe Dantes "Four magic moves....." and a couple og others too. I guess I have enough litteratur for now.

But keep 'em coming.....

Drewit - good book recommendations on golf course architecture?

There is a book that one can never finish reading, "The Golfing Machine". Apparently there are some people who try to figure it out, even have a web site.

What a bunch of kooks!

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OB!

He said he didn't want instruction books!

"To the Linksland" is absolutely fantastic, you will enjoy it.

Dodson's efforts are not as good but diverting nonetheless. "The Dewsweepers" and "Final Rounds" are the two I've read. "A season in Dornoch" by rubenstein, is not bad but he hasn't the passion for the links that Bamberger has and I ended up disliking him intensely.

The Architect's Architect
 

Not Drewitgolf -- who has one of the most extensive private golf libraries on the planet -- but I've just started a book that, at the very least, has all the promise of a 'good read':

Golf Has Never Failed Me
The lost commentaries of legendary golf architect Donald J. Ross.

By . . . who else?

Donald Ross!

For best pricing and to explore the book, go here http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...52686 &sr=8-1.