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  • Golf Business and Management

    A Global Introduction

    Edited by Tim Breitbarth, Sebastian Kaiser-Jovy, Geoff Dickson ...
    Golf is big business around the world. With high profile series such as the PGA, LPGA and European tours to the re-introduction of golf to the Olympics at Rio 2016, golf occupies a prominent place in the global sport community. This is the first book to introduce the fundamentals of golf business and management from a truly international perspective, covering key topics such as media, club ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    Tour-Tested Secrets for Getting Up and Down

    by Stan Utley, Matthew Rudy ...
    "The hottest instructor in golf" (Sports Illustrated) takes on old-school gurus with a far more accessible, intuitive, and innovative approach to those essential chip shots, pitches, and bunker rescues.Veteran golfers know that the secret to a lower score is a solid short game, but mastering those small strokes can be maddening—even for the pros. One of golf's most revered instructors, Stan Utley ... Read more

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  • Deane Beman Golf's Driving Force: The Inside Story of The Man Who Transformed Professional Golf into a Billion-Dollar Business

    by Adam Schupak ...
    Once called "The Most Powerful Person in Golf" former PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman transformed the Tour into the success story it is today. "Golf's Driving Force" offers an intimate portrait of Beman as Commissioner: his shift from Tour winner to executive of change. In 1974 Beman inherited a Tour that owned as its largest capital asset an IBM typewriter. Over the course of his 20-year tenure ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Two Years in St. Andrews

    At Home on the 18th Hole

    by George Peper ...
    The Old Course at St. Andrews is to golfers what St. Peter's is to Catholics or the Western Wall is to Jews: hallowed ground, the course every golfer longs to play -- and master. In 1983 George Peper was playing the Old Course when he hit a slice so hideous that he never found the ball. But in looking for it, he came across a For Sale sign on a stone town house alongside the famed eighteenth hole. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bobby's Open

    Mr. Jones and the Golf Shot That Defined a Legend

    by Jack Nicklaus, Steven Reid ...
    TIMES BRITISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 201325th June 1926. Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club is hosting the world's oldest and most prestigious golf tournament - The Open Championship. A stellar field of players has assembled from both sides of the Atlantic hoping to claim victory, including Walter Hagen, Harry Vardon and a rising young amateur from the USA, Bobby Jones.Already a winner of the US ... Read more

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  • Larceny Games

    Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI

    by Brian Tuohy ...
    Major League Baseball claims it hasn't had a game fixed by gamblers since 1919. No points have been shaved in the NBA since 1954. And the NFL states no game of theirs has come under outside influence ever. These, however, are lies. The proof resides in FBI files only recently uncovered and discussed in Larceny Games. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Make Pro Baseball Scouts Notice You

    An Insider's Guide to Big League Scouting

    by Al Goldis, John Wolff ...
    The purpose of this book is twofold: one, to give ballplayers an inside look at just what scouts are really looking for in their search for professional ballplayers; and two, to help them market and sell themselves so that scouts will know they exist and see them put their best skills on display. This book has been written with the intent of helping ballplayers keep their dreams of playing pro ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Seventh at St. Andrews

    How Scotsman David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band Built theFirst New Course onGolf's Holy Soil in Nearly a Century

    by Scott Gummer ...
    An acclaimed Scottish golf course architect who had to go to America to make his name lands the most coveted commission in all of golf: to design the first new course in almost a century for the town of St. Andrews, the game’s ancestral home.David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf course architect before he was thirty years old, thanks to his universally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Golf by the Numbers

    How Stats, Math, and Physics Affect Your Game

    by Roland Minton ...
    How do the world’s greatest golfers improve their game? Practice, sure, but Roland Minton says mathematics and statistics are also key to their success. Golf by the Numbers analyzes the mathematical strategies behind the sport, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at how numbers drive the game.Computers, GPS trackers, swing simulators, and high-speed cameras have introduced new and exciting ways ... Read more

    $33.59 USD

  • Out of the Bunker and into the Trees, or The Secret of High-Tension Golf

    by Rex Lardner ...
    One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All TimeFor less expense than a lost bet on the links, you can learn how to get “out of the bunker and into the trees.” Rex Lardner, a unique stylist who hit his best shots when in a towering rage, reveals the secrets every golfer needs to know, including how to loft a ball out of your own trouser cuff; how to properly grip the 2-wood when ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Religion and Sports

    An Introduction and Case Studies

    by Rebecca Alpert ...
    Like religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly work designed for use in both religion and sports courses, this collection develops and then applies a theoretically grounded approach to studying sports engagement globally and its relationship to modern-day issues of violence, difference, social protest, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Cape Summer and the Australians in England

    by Alan Ross ...
    Alan Ross (1922-2001) - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of London Magazine - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the Observer, in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In the book-length accounts he published of these tours, his lifelong love of the game found glorious expression.Cape Summer and the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD