Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses - Hardcover

Mccallen, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810982269 ISBN 13: 9780810982260

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003

Synopsis

There's no need to be a club member to play the superb courses described and pictured in this volume. Based on Golf Magazine's biennial assessments, it describes each of the top 100 courses in detail, including useful tips on how to play individual holes. Extending the scope of the volume, there is ample information about lodging, food and entertainment at a variety of prices. Wide-ranging descriptions of other courses worth playing in each geographical area offer information on dozens of additional facilities.

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Review

Here's the good news: You don't have to cash in all your stock options to pay the initiation fee at an exclusive club to play a great golf course. Some of the most spectacular--and storied--tracks in the nation are, indeed, open to everyone. The bad news is you'll still need more than a few bucks--and some spare time--to get on to them. Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses You Can Play beckon from this lushly illustrated coffee-table volume and the names alone should send serious hackers raiding their savings and scrambling to the phone for tee times: Pinehurst No. 2, Torrey Pines, Spyglass Hill, Pebble Beach, the Links at Spanish Bay, Bethpage Black, Bay Hill, Sawgrass, Grayhawk and Troon. That's just a hint of what's out there.

Designed for the golfer whose motto is "Have clubs, will travel," Top 100 first lures you in with its enticing introductions to the best resort, municipal, semi-private and daily-fee tracks around the country. Then, once it has you salivating, it helps plan your getaway. Say you feel like trying to tame Sugarloaf, the demanding 18 carved from the Maine woods by Robert Trent Jones Jr.; Golf Magazine's experts deem it the ace of the nation's wilderness courses. Top 100 sends you off with hints to help you navigate the layout, suggests area accommodations and restaurants, other courses nearby and, in case you have a few moment between tee times, where to find other activities like fishing, biking, rafting, museums, even a train excursion.

"It's a wonderful time to be alive if you're an ardent golfer with the wherewithal to take your game on the road and put your skills to the test around the nation", writes author BrianMcCallen. To that end, Top 100 does pretty much everything but carry your bag. --Jeff Silverman

Review

"Alongside eye-catching photographs... McCallen offers stroke tips for the serious golfer ....And he offers other advice for the serious golfer's nongolfing family on where to stay, where to eat, and where to take the kids."

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0810982269
• ISBN 13: 9780810982260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304