Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die: Golf Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations
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There’s an incredible similarity between the mechanics of a fly cast and the swing of a golf club. Perhaps that’s why Chris Santella, author of Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, can be found on the links when he’s not on the stream. With Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die, Santella gives voice to his other sporting passion, interviewing 50 people intimately connected to the sport about some of their favorite courses around the world.
For both passionate golfers and armchair travelers, this gorgeous full-color book presents the world’s greatest golf venues, the personal favorites of renowned players, course architects, and other experts in the sport. From Ballyliffin, Ireland’s northernmost course, whose rumpled fairways wander along the North Sea in the shadows of Glashedy Rock, to New Zealand’s Cape Kidnappers, perched atop dramatic cliffs some 500 feet above the ocean, the book’s beautiful photographs capture the architecture, notew… More >>
This was supposed to be used a coffee table book, but there are barely any pictures to along with the lame descriptions. Some of the courses listed are super private…guess i will die unfulfilled.
Gave this as a Christmas gift to a real golf lover. He seem to like it. I thought it was rather small – but, it was a good gift.
Many of these courses you have no prayer of ever playing on so it’s more of an interesting book than a bucket list.
I ordered the book as a gift for my brother. He told me it arrived promptly, so I’m satisfied with the service that was provided.
Received this one for Christmas and have been rooting through it since. There is some beautiful photography here and you can set and dream about the places featured. These are not the most famous courses in the world, but they are some of the most beautiful and unique. I like the author’s history of each course and the trip-planning tips the author gives (not that I will take that many of them, but goodness, you can always dream).
This is one of those nice books to have lying around to flip through now and then and makes a wonderful gift for the golfer in your life. Thank you Sharon!