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Title: The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses by Tom Doak ISBN: 1-886947-09-0 Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A "Must-have" if you like great golf courses
Comment: If you like the field of play as much as you like the game, Tom Doak's seminal work on the great courses of the world is essential.
Once you've browsed through, read cover-to-cover, and pored over the pictures, "Confidential Guide" is a book that you will refer back to every time you travel for golf.
I don't know which is more impressive... that Doak has visited all of these by a young age, or the way his lifetime of impressions from world travel is summarized for the reader.
Rating: 4
Summary: This is the real stuff.
Comment: You have to love Tom Doak for his honesty. He's not afraid to take aim at the big names in the business and tell us what he really thinks about the hundreds of golf courses he's played. I'm told the original version is much more scathing and I wish he'd published that version. It would have made the book even better. While the book is expensively produced, many of Doak's photos are too dark: perhaps there was something wrong with the production of my copy. For afficionados of golf course architecture, this book is a must-have, even though it will dent your golf budget.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for the afficianado
Comment: Tom Doak's book is a total delight. it is a shame it is not better known as any golf connoisseur would cherish its judgements and insights. i have played only a small fraction of the courses he reviews - in the UK and South Africa - but i would generally support his judgements. He is spot on about Dornoch which is a magnificent golf course, and still not that well known. He is too kind to Ballybunnion No 2 which i recollect as a course verging on the laughable - admittedly in tough conditions. it is a shame that he has not played some of the fine courses in spain and portgual - sounds like he needs a collaborator to expand the coverage and get out a second edition! the book is most welcome for its judgements - as he rightly points out, most descriptions of golf courses are just puffery which don't really help the unitiated know whether to play them or not. you also feel that he is unlocking a treasure chest - that a whole lifetime of excitement lies ahead just getting to a fraction of the fine courses he mentions. i agree with the correspondent who says the pictures are too dark. in my edition there is another rather embarrassing error - the text for Durban country club is repeated in total for garden city - perhaps this will make it a valuable collectors item. these are but small quibbles - what would really make my day would be to hear that a second updated edition is in the pipeline, though one would not want a book of this nature to come out too often. well done mr doak!
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Title: The Anatomy of a Golf Course by Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doak ISBN: 1580800718 Publisher: Burford Books Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Spirit of St. Andrews by A. MacKenzie, Alister MacKenzie ISBN: 1886947007 Publisher: Gale Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bernard Darwin On Golf by Bernard Darwin, Jeff Silverman ISBN: 1585747688 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie by Tom Doak, James Scott, Raymond Haddock ISBN: 158536018X Publisher: Gale Group Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design by Geoff Shackelford ISBN: 031227808X Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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