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The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie

Author : Tom Doak
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9781585360185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie written by Tom Doak and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the fact that he was one of the greatest golf course architects in the history of the game, Dr. Alister MacKenzie has long been something of a puzzle--if not a mystery. He liked to wear kilts, but he wasn't a Scotsman. He graduated from medical school, but he never made a living at it. He designed spectacular courses, but he was not a good golfer. At the height of his career he was one of the most sought after designers in the world, but he was nearly broke when he died. The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie by Tom Doak, James S. Scott and Raymund M Haddock, uses detailed text, color photos and vintage maps, drawings and pictures to bring together many pieces of the puzzle. Questions about his boyhood, his military service, his many design trips in various parts of the world, and what made him so good at his craft, are all answered. Golfers, golf historians, and students of golf course architecture will find this book to be among their favorites. And, why wouldn't they with Augusta National, Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne, Crystal Downs, Lahinch, and Pasatiempo among his magnificent works? The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie is a cherished biography on one of golf's most eccentric, interesting, brilliant and colorful characters.

The Spirit of St. Andrews

Author : Alister Mackenzie
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 076790169X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of St. Andrews written by Alister Mackenzie and published by Crown. This book was released on 1998-03-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alister MacKenzie was one of golf's greatest architects. He designed his courses so that players of all skill levels could enjoy the game while still creating fantastic challenges for the most experienced players. Several of MacKenzie's courses, such as Augusta National, Cypress Point, and Pasatiempo, remain in the top 100 today. In his "lost" 1933 manuscript, published for the first time in 1995 and now finally available in paperback, MacKenzie leads you through the evolution of golf--from St. Andrews to the modern-day golf course--and shares his insight on great golf holes, the swing, technology and equipment, putting tips, the USGA, the Royal & Ancient, and more. With fascinating stories about Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, and many others, The Spirit of St. Andrews gives valuable lessons for all golfers as well as an intimate portrait of Alister MacKenzie, a true legend of the game.

The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Volume 3

Author : Tom Doak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990708629
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Volume 3 written by Tom Doak and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical reviews of golf courses in the northern United States and Canada.

The Evangelist of Golf

Author : George Bahto
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9781886947207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Evangelist of Golf written by George Bahto and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Blair Macdonald may very well be one of the most influential persons in American golf history. In this visually stunning book, author George Bahto presents a compelling look into Macdonald’s, Seth Raynor’s, and Charles Banks’ work and includes an impressive array of rare vintage photographs, detailed course layouts, and sketches of many of their most highly regarded hole designs. In the tradition of recent architectural classics, The Evangelist of Golf joins Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and His Golf Courses and The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie to form a rare and beautiful triumvirate.

Golf Architecture

Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Golf Architecture written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1920 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by H. S. Colt.

Alister MacKenzie's Cypress Point Club

Author : Geoff Shackelford
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9781886947641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Alister MacKenzie's Cypress Point Club written by Geoff Shackelford and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2000-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, few golf courses are as revered as California’s Cypress Point Club — not just for its breath-taking beauty but for its architectural significance. Located on the Monterey Peninsula along the white sands and steep cliffs that border the Pacific Ocean, the beauty of Cypress Point is the equal of its more famous neighbor Pebble Beach. Unlike Pebble, however, the history of Cypress Point has been relatively unknown. That is, until now. Alister MacKenzie’s Cypress Point Club, by Geoff Shackelford, is a biography of both the creation and the creator of this legendary and elusive layout. Typical of Shackelford’s work, the book is richly detailed and painstakingly assembled. Remarkable vintage photographs and insightful text not only take you back to the 1920s, they take you through the mental and physical process that went into developing each and every hole — including the spectacular 16th, arguably the most famous hole in the world.

Final Rounds

Author : James Dodson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553375644
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Final Rounds written by James Dodson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Dodson always felt closest to his father while they were on the links. So it seemed only appropriate when his father learned he had two months to live that they would set off on the golf journey of their dreams to play the most famous courses in the world. Final Rounds takes us to the historic courses of Royal Lytham and Royal Birkdale, to the windswept undulations of Carnoustie, where Hogan played peerlessly in '53, and the legendary St. Andrews, whose hallowed course reveals something of the eternal secret of the game's mysterious allure over pros and hackers alike. Throughout their poignant journey, the Dodsons humorously reminisce and reaffirm their love for each other, as the younger Dodson finds out what it means to have his father also be his best friend. Final Rounds is a book never to be forgotten, a book about fathers and sons, long-held secrets, and the lessons a middle-aged man can still learn from his dad about life, love, and family. Final Rounds is a tribute to a very special game and the fathers and sons who make it so.

The Making of the Masters

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684867516
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Masters written by David Owen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Played out across the rolling hills, the Masters is the first major golf tournament of the year. Owen tells the story of how this unlikely winter haven became one of the most famed locations on the sporting map. For the millions of fans who dream of April in Augusta, this is the best and most intimate look at golf's ultimate rite of spring. 32 page photo insert.

All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me was to Work

Author : Edith Bradley Rendleman
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319312
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me was to Work written by Edith Bradley Rendleman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work... "Starting around 1950, people stopped raising chickens, milking cows, and raising hogs. They just buy it at the store, ready to eat. A lot buy a steer and have it processed in Dongola and put it in their freezer. What a difference! Girls have got it so easy now. They don't even know what it was like to start out. And I guess my mother's life, when she started out, was as hard again as mine, because they had to make everything by hand. I don't know if it could get any easier for these girls. But they don't know what it was like, and they never will. Everything is packaged. All you do is go to the store and buy you a package and cook it. Automatic washers and dryers. I'm glad they don't have to work like I did. Very glad." Edith Bradley Rendleman's story of her life in southern Illinois is remarkable in many ways. Recalling the first half of the twentieth century in great detail, she vividly cites vignettes from her childhood as her family moved from farm to farm until settling in 1909 in the Mississippi bottoms of Wolf Lake. She recounts the lives and times of her family and neighbors during an era gone forever. Remarkable for the vivid details that evoke the past, Rendleman's account is rare in another respect: memoirs of the time--usually written by people from elite or urban families--often reek of nostalgia. But Rendleman's memoir differs from the norm. Born poor in rural southern Illinois, she tells an unvarnished tale of what it was really like growing up on a tenant farm early this century.

Pilgrim Days

Author : Alastair MacKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833171
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrim Days written by Alastair MacKenzie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.' If there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning 30 years, MacKenzie served uniquely with the New Zealand Army in Vietnam, the British Parachute Regiment, the British Special Air Service (SAS), the South African Defence Force's famed ParaBats, the Sultan of Oman's Special Forces and a host of private security agencies and defence contractors. MacKenzie lived the soldier's life to the full as he journeyed 'the Golden Road to Samarkand'. This extraordinary new work from the author of Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) vividly documents the experience of infantry combat in Vietnam, life with the Paras, the tempo of selection for UK Special Forces, covert SAS operations in South Armagh and SAS Counter Terrorist training on the UK mainland, vehicle-mounted Pathfinder Brigade insertions into Angola and maritime counter-terrorism work in Oman.

Pioneer in Tibet

Author : Douglas Wissing
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466892242
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer in Tibet written by Douglas Wissing and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During the Great Game era, the Sheltons' sprawling station in Kham was the most remote and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the West's first interpreters of Tibetan culture, during the course of his work in Tibet, he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat, and fearless adventurer. To the American public, Dr. Albert Shelton was Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp, and the apostle Paul on a new frontier. Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off-limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go-between for the Tibetans and Chinese. Recognizing his work, the Dalai Lama issued Shelton an invitation to Lhasa. Tragically, while finalizing his entry, Shelton was shot to death on a remote mountain trail in the Himalayas. Set against the exciting history of early twentieth century Tibet and China, Pioneer in Tibet offers a window into the life of a dying breed of adventurer.

Robbie Taggart (The Highland Collection Book #2)

Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441229825
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Robbie Taggart (The Highland Collection Book #2) written by Michael Phillips and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his love for Jamie MacLeod was refused, Robbie Taggart left the Scottish Highlands to seek fortune and adventure on the high seas. But when military discipline becomes too constraining for him, he resigns and takes a position on a freighter bound for China. From London to Shanghai, will Robbie's invincible attitude toward life finally be his undoing?

Discovering Donald Ross

Author : Bradley S. Klein
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9781886947559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Donald Ross written by Bradley S. Klein and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2001-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the life and work of a true artist: Donald Ross I grew up playing a Donald Ross golf course, Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, so my standards of what a good golf course should be were based on a Ross design. I think being exposed early to a Donald Ross course provided me balance, as both a player and future golf course designer, because of the variety of shots found throughout each of his design. Ross was without a doubt a great influence on my design career, and he remains a personal favorite. I am happy to see Brad Klein devote a book to the work of Donald Ross. Brad is passionate about golf course design and that translates in his writing. --Jack Nicklaus

The Anatomy of a Golf Course

Author : Tom Doak
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9781550413731
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of a Golf Course written by Tom Doak and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key book for the golfer's library, exploring the intricacies of golf architecture--and how this knowledge can improve your golf game.

Practical Golf Course Maintenance

Author : Gordon Witteveen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118411919
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Practical Golf Course Maintenance written by Gordon Witteveen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised, bestselling resource of practical, nontechnical advice for maintaining and operating a golf course Practical Golf Course Maintenance, Third Edition presents the latest information and techniques for providing first-rate upkeep and management operations for any golf course. This book's, clear, step-by-step coverage, unencumbered by technical language, includes critical advice on maintaining consistent bunkers, sand top-dressing and aerifying, pesticide storage, and other emerging technologies, as well as mowing techniques for greens, fairways, and tees and much more! This updated Third Edition offers reliable, state-of-the-art guidance and hundreds of helpful tips with: Major revisions throughout to address the latest information on computer- operated irrigation systems, new equipment for all aspects of course maintenance, water quality and conservation issues, and managing people A clear approach that avoids technical language and scientific citations while delivering practical advice that can be immediately applied on the course Coverage of all aspects of course maintenance from tee to green, along with guidance on managing the course for the rules of the game and managing the business aspects of course management and maintenance Practical Golf Course Maintenance, Third Edition is a valuable tool for golf course owners, architects, builders, golfers, golf professionals, club managers, and superintendents, as well as greens committee members, irrigation specialists, field managers, turfgrass specialists, real estate developers, and landscape architects.

Golf Course Design

Author : Robert Muir Graves
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471137849
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Golf Course Design written by Robert Muir Graves and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zwei der berühmtesten Golfplatzarchitekten aller Zeiten beantworten Ihnen hier jede erdenkliche Frage zum Thema der Gestaltung von Golfplätzen - von der Finanzierung über die Lage der Löcher und die Wartung des Rasens bis hin zur Entwicklung und Veränderung vorhandener Anlagen. Eine Fundgrube nicht nur für Landschaftsgestalter, sondern auch für interessierte Golfer!

Special Force

Author : Alastair MacKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857721011
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Special Force written by Alastair MacKenzie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploits of the British Army's elite 22nd Special Air Service Regiment - the regiment of the SAS that forms part of the Regular army - are shrouded in mystery and myths abound about its members. But what is the truth behind the public facade of clinical professionalism? How has such a small regiment attracted so many weighty legends? And what is the purpose of the SAS in the 21st century? "Special Force" provides an original and unusually critical overview of the activities of the SAS from the Malayan Emergency of 1950 to the present day. In the context of a detailed and often controversial analysis of the post-war activities of the Regiment, MacKenzie establishes that the Regiment's almost legendary professional competence is often not backed up by reality. Far from being part of a structured deployment of strategic military assets, MacKenzie argues that the use of the SAS in recent years has been primarily driven by the 'entrepreneurial' actions of a few SAS commanding officers. "Special Force" not only offers a revelatory history of the SAS in the modern period, it is also a disturbing expose of the truth behind the myth. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the British military - past, present and future.