In "Rough Meditations," Bradley Klein, Golfweek's Architecture Editor, shares humorous essays on golf course design, blending personal anecdotes from his caddy days on the PGA and LPGA tours with insights on the game. He also shares a touching story about introducing his daughter to golf, offering wisdom on greens and putting.
Bradley S. Klein, architecture editor of Golfweek, is a former PGA Tour caddie and International Caddie Hall of Fame inductee. He lectures on golf design and course operations and has authored notable works, including "Discovering Donald Ross" and "Rough Meditations." Klein received the 2015 Donald Ross Award from the American Society of Golf Course Architects.
A History and a Celebration of the World's Greatest Game
Ever since the Dark Ages, when a few Scots ambled over the dunes with their het kolvin sticks, slapping a ball around in something akin to golf, no sport has more universally or irreversibly awed its players and fans. THE ULTIMATE GOLF BOOK captures the world's ultimate sporting passion as it has never been captured before, with a lively, authoritative history, stunning illustrations, and perhaps the finest collection of original writing on the sport ever assembled between two covers. Putting a fresh, contemporary spin on the centuries-old story of golf, Sports Illustrated's colorful senior writer John Garrity has written a delightful, loose-limbed riff of a history that travels the globe and the links, covering the key personalities, events, advances in technique and technology, proliferation of interest, and curious mystery of this international obsession. Complementing the history are twenty personal essays from a diverse group of literary low-handicappers, musing on everything from the Age of Tiger, to the woes of the lowly club pro, to the charm of playing golf in the dead of winter, to giving up the game altogether. All of this plays out against the dramatic backdrop of more than 300 photographs and illustrations, many rare and historic, many commissioned especially for this volume, which is truly one of a kind. From the tee to the green, the clubhouse to the nuthouse, THE ULTIMATE GOLF BOOK is a must-have for any serious student of the game.