In Golf Architecture for Normal People, golf architecture expert Geoff Shackelford elucidates the world’ s most interactive art form in ways that all golfers can enjoy. For those smitten by this centuries-old sport, Shackelford takes readers on a fun walking tour through what is often considered a rarefied field and achieves the following along the way:
-Helps golfers of all skill levels become keener observers while getting more joy out of playing any course
-Introduces simple and easy-to-remember ways to judge a design's merits
-Cuts through entrenched architectural snootiness to drive home the importance of a few timeless design tenets
-Demystifies the complex, interdependent and often perplexing array of factors that make a course fun to play
-Provides readers new tools to achieve a more sophisticated understanding what they love (or hate) about a design
-Suggests diplomatic ways to disarm design elitists and settle 19th-hole debates
-Advises how to merge technology and common sense to decode deceptive design elements
-Shares lists of must-see courses and resources to further your connoisseurship
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
164 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Tatra Press |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2023-06-01 |
| ISBN |
9781732222755 |