Golf Architecture for Normal People: Sharpening Your Course Design Eye to Make Golf (Slightly) Less Maddening
Geoff Shackelford
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$30.00
$27.90
Publisher
Tatra Press
Publish Date
June 01, 2023
Pages
164
Dimensions
5.7 X 7.5 X 0.8 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781732222755
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About the Author
Geoff Shackelford is the well-known author, writer, blogger, podcaster, golf architect, and television analyst. He covers major championship golf and course design matters in his Substack newsletter, The Quadrilateral, aka The Quad, which has thousands of subscribers. In addition to his 11 books on golf, including GROUNDS FOR GOLF, his writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, Golf Magazine, Links, Golf Digest, Golf World, The Golfer, Golfweb, Golf Journal, The Masters Journal, Golf Course Architecture, Golf Architecture, Golfweek, Golf Digest Index, Golf Digest, Golf World, and golf.com. He is also longtime Golf Channel contributor. His golf course design work includes Rustic Canyon, rated the USA's #1 Best Value by Golf Magazine. As the author of a biography on architect George Thomas, Geoff worked on the multi-year project to restore Los Angeles Country Club's North Course, host of the 2023 United States Open. A southern California native living in Santa Monica, he played college golf at Pepperdine. Geoff can be contacted through: Website: www.geoffshackelford.com The Quad: www.geoffshackelford.com/the-quadrilateral Twitter: twitter.com/GeoffShac
Reviews
"Shackelford, the renowned golf architecture expert, leads readers on a savvy and fun masterclass on evaluating any golf course." --David Barrett, Author, The Story of the Masters "Imagine a book that allows you to see golf courses through an entirely different lens... one that makes your time more enjoyable, the shared experiences and conversations more lively, the strategy more understood and appreciated... and that's all before you get the full effect as you put your feet on the ground with your best four-legged pal beside you. That's what this book does." --Dottie Pepper, 17-time winner on LPGA tour, CBS broadcaster "Geoff Shackelford has for years deftly covered all aspects of golf, but at heart he is an architecture wonk who enjoys getting into the nuisance and subtleties of what constitutes - or doesn't - a great golf course. In 'Golf Architecture for Normal People, '' Geoff helps those among us who don't know the difference between bent and Bermuda feel better about ourselves. It is a fun read with lots of history, plenty of anecdotes and a way for golfers to better appreciate the courses they are playing." --Bog Harig, Sports Illustrated writer, author of Phil & Tiger
"Golf Architecture for Normal People . . . should be required reading for those who are not ashamed to admit they know little about the subject, and for those who think they do . . . . Golf course architecture geeks have trouble slimming their thoughts down to bite-sized chunks, but Shackelford has achieved a remarkable success here." --Independent (Ireland).
"From the relative newcomer who's slowly getting hooked to those that have played the game for most of their lives and think they know a thing or two, Golf Architecture for Normal People provides a solid and sober perspective that will help everyone recognize why some golf courses are worth playing more than once while a single trip around others is all you're ever likely to want or need." --Links Magazine.
"Golf Architecture for Normal People . . . should be required reading for those who are not ashamed to admit they know little about the subject, and for those who think they do . . . . Golf course architecture geeks have trouble slimming their thoughts down to bite-sized chunks, but Shackelford has achieved a remarkable success here." --Independent (Ireland).
"From the relative newcomer who's slowly getting hooked to those that have played the game for most of their lives and think they know a thing or two, Golf Architecture for Normal People provides a solid and sober perspective that will help everyone recognize why some golf courses are worth playing more than once while a single trip around others is all you're ever likely to want or need." --Links Magazine.
