Golf Books - Courses . General Biographies Inspiration Instruction Sports Book Menu Top Picks from Time 2 Buy Online Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens by James W. Finegan Scotland's famous golf courses come alive in this memoir from the former golf columnist and author of Emerald Fairways and Foam Flecked Seas. With plenty of detours (the author's wife doesn't play golf), Finegan captures the spirit of the sport's hallowed backyard.  Price: $14.70 Hardcover   Golf Magazines Top 100 Courses You Can Play by Brian McCallen 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. Price: $24.98 Hardcover   Golf Course Design by Robert Muir Graves When it comes to golf course design, Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey S. Cornish are true masters. Over the past few decades, they have produced every type of course imaginable: long and short, entry level and upscale, courses built on ocean bluffs and swamps, courses located in the United States and around the world. Now, drawing on this vast experience and their popular golf course design seminars held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and nationwide for the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, Graves and Cornish share a wealth of expertise on all aspects of design and construction in this outstanding book.  Price: $75.00 Hardcover   Classic Golf Links of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland  by Donald Steel  Price: $27.97 Hardcover   The 500 World's Greatest Golf Holes by George Peper The 500 World's Greatest Golf Holes succeeds in hitting precisely the two targets any book purporting to present golf's greatest anything must aim for: it'll have golfers both arguing with and dreaming about its contents. Simultaneously. Price: $20.97 Paperback $42.00 Hardcover   Golf Resorts of the World by Brian McCallen GOLF magazine has selected 64 outstanding resorts in the U.S. and 32 in other parts of the world as the best for golf vacations. Each resort is carefully detailed and 402 magnificent full-color photographs show the courses, guestrooms and public areas. Includes directory listing and index.  Price: $34.65 Hardcover   Golf Course Architecture by Michael J. Hurdzan  Described as "the modern bible of golf architecture," this text distills Dr. Hurdzan's 30 years of knowledge and experience into one source. Beautifully illustrated with 326 color photographs, and 80 course maps and drawings, it chronicles all facets of designing, building, renovating and restoring a golf course.  Price: $52.50 Hardcover   Golf by Design by Robert Trent Jones An illustrated guide to a better game of golf shows readers how to lower their scores by analyzing each hole from a designer's perspective, looking at optical illusions, turf variations, deceptive elements, and water hazards.  Price: $28.00 Hardcover   Hallowed Ground: Golf's Greatest Places by Jaime Diaz Top golf landscape artist and top golf writer combine talents to produce a glorious visual book about the places we worship in the game of golf. Here are the green "cathedrals," sublime arenas of the sport, courses where giants have walked and stars have been born. Hallowed Ground is divided into three sections: "U.S. Championship Courses," "The Beautiful Golf" (the eight courses of the British Rotation), and in a stunning section of its own, "The Augusta National Golf Club."  Price: $31.50 Hardcover   Turf Management for Golf Courses, 2nd Edition by James B Beard Over 30 years of Dr. Beard's research, and the combined field-experience of the entire USGA Green Section!  Price: $125.00 Hardcover   Fairways: America's Greatest Golf Resorts Never before has a book so lavishly captured the pinnacle of American golf travel: the luxurious resorts that cater to golfers and non-golfers alike. The one hundred crème de la crème of golf resorts, selected by a detailed surveying of the country's leading golf travel experts, are featured in the pages of Fairways.  Price: $35.00 Hardcover   Golf Courses of the PGA Tour by George Peper An official guide to the championship courses of the men's Pro Tour features twelve new additions; forty-two paintings mapping each fairway, green, bunker, and tree; instructional tips from the professionals; and an in-depth statistical section.  Price: $34.65 Hardcover   Routing the Golf Course by Forrest L. Richardson  Forrest's book will not only inspire and inform a potential golf course architect, planner, or developer, but also will help all golfers better understand and appreciate the layout of any course they might play.  Price: $75.00 Hardcover   The Golden Age of Golf Design by Geoff Shackelford One of the great mysteries of the royal and ancient game is how good golf courses leave players convinced they've just spent four hours either floating in heaven or stuck in the bedlam of a Hieronymous Bosch painting. A golf course is not a random creation; the best are truly works of art, and it's remarkable how many of the best were coaxed from the landscape between 1911 and 1937. A time when the giants of the craft--A.W. Tillinghast, Marion Hollins, and Alistair McKenzie, to name a few--were in full flourish.  Price: $45.50 Hardcover   Trolleys and Squibs by Louise Miracle Book Review, Indiana University Alumni Magazine, January/February 2001 "Trolleys and Squibs (is) a travel book and serious golfer's information guide."  Price: $17.47 Paperback   welcome to our site