Download or read book A Wee Nip at the 19th Hole written by Richard Mackenzie and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1998 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful celebration--in words and vintage photos--of the famous St. Andrews golf course in Scotland, A Wee Nip at the 19th Hole takes an evocative look at the role that caddies have played in shaping this centuries-old game.
Download or read book A Wee Nip at the 19th Hole A History of the St Andrews Caddie by Richard Mackenzie written by Richard Mackenzie and published by CollinsWillow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wee Nip at the 19th Hole written by Richard Mackenzie and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful celebration--in words and vintage photos--of the famous St. Andrews golf course in Scotland, A Wee Nip at the 19th Hole takes an evocative look at the role that caddies have played in shaping this centuries-old game.
Download or read book Be the Pine Be the Ball written by Paul J. Zingg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the landscapes and memory of golf and examining the games nature and appeal, this collection of seventy-two haiku poems and essays aims to lead readers to a fuller appreciation of the culture and history of golf and a deeper awareness of a players place in the game. Be the Pine, Be the Ball also reveals the compelling beauty and power of haiku, the most popular poetic form in the world. Through the brevity of its style, precise language, and ability to reveal how ordinary moments and elements of our lives are pathways to a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us, haiku can have both a meditative and consequential effect on the reader. A key to the connection between haiku and golf is that both foster powers of concentration and detailed observation with a related reduction of distractions. Both seek to cultivate a more tranquil and disciplined mind and to translate that condition into how a life is lived and a game is played.
Download or read book Golf Is from Satan written by T. Patterson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of a seething, near-psychotic indifference to golf that was transformed during its writing into the nihilistic and passionate obsession of a student in a Parisian school for acrobats and clowns, "Golf is From Satan" is the first book about golf that seeks and tells the truth about a game that longs to ascend to the heavens of public imagination on the singed wings of demons. This book sings, instructs, will send the reader into convulsive fits of nervous laughter, save or send the reader to hell, then finally and suddenly yield up the hidden secrets of the universe. And it's just a golf book that, admittedly, has little to do with golf itself.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Golf written by Bill Mallon and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf being played in the low countries of Europe back in the 13th century. Over the many centuries of golf's evolution, the balls used have changed greatly, as have the clubs, the holes, the courses, and the entire game itself. The Historical Dictionary of Golf presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photos, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on places, teams, terminology, and people, including Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sörenstam, Lorena Ochoa, Phil Mickelson, and, of course, Tiger Woods. Appendixes of the members of the World Golf Hall of Fame, the Major Championships of Golf, the International Team Events, and the Professional Tour Awards are also included.
Download or read book Trials and Triumphs of Golf s Greatest Champions written by Lyle Slovick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golf can be a vexing and cruel game, and teaches us much about ourselves. It has been described as “a contest calling for courage, skill, strategy and self-control. It is a test of temper, a trial of honor, a revealer of character.” In the end, as with most of life, success hinges on the character and spirit we possess. But how would our tempers be tested if we suffered a career-threatening injury from a near-fatal car accident, as Ben Hogan did in the prime of his life? How would our honor be preserved if we faced constant derision and racism both on and off the golf course, as Charlie Sifford encountered his entire career? How would our character be revealed if cancer robbed us of the ability to play the game we loved, as it did to Babe Didrikson Zaharias? Would we give in to self pity, or persevere and keep going? In Trials and Triumphs of Golf’s Greatest Champions: A Legacy of Hope, Lyle Slovick has pulled together the inspirational stories of six golfers and a caddy whose strength of character sustained them against the physical and emotional trials that threatened both their careers and lives. In an era when many athletes have lost their luster as role models, the people in this book—Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Charlie Sifford, Ken Venturi, and Bruce Edwards—offer lessons in perseverance, dignity, humility, and faith. Slovick tells each of their stories with rich detail, including the childhoods that shaped their characters, their rise in the world of professional golf, the crises they faced in their lives, their struggles to keep doing what they loved, and their refusal to give up. They had their flaws, to be sure. But when faced with a true test of will, all showed a strength that inspired those around them. The first book to gather the stories of these golfers into a single volume, Trials and Triumphs of Golf’s Greatest Champions offers a unique blend of characters who shared the same love for a game that gave them the courage and fortitude they needed to face whatever life threw their way. This book will not only interest golfers and fans of the game, it will also inspire those who have suffered their own personal setbacks and show them they are not alone in their trials.
Download or read book The Funniest People in Sports and Neighborhoods written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains such anecdotes as these: 1) Bob Zuppke coached the football Illini for years. In a discussion of football rules, someone described a play and asked whether the officials had made the right call. Before answering, however, Mr. Zuppke asked, "Which team made the foul-Illinois or the other one?" 2) At a Westminster Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, a woman was selling an expensive coat made for dogs. Saying "We want her dog to look as smart as madame," the saleslady held up a pink cocktail coat made out of embroidered silk with a lining of mohair. Sportswriter Robert Lipsyte asked her, "When would a dog wear that?" The saleslady replied, "After five o'clock." 3) Shannon Martin was six years old when she won an age-12-and-under roping contest, for which she was written up in the "Roping Sports News." Because she hadn't learned to read yet, she kept saying to her father, "Come on, Dad. Read it again."
Download or read book The Funniest People in Sports written by David Bruce and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Funniest People in Sports: 250 Anecdotes About Sports" contains such anecdotes as the following: Umpire Beans Reardon once made a mistake. Richie Ashburn slid into second base and Billy Cox attempted to tag him. Beans yelled 'Safe," but at the same time he flung his arm in the 'Out" gesture. Mr. Ashburn asked, 'What the hell does that mean?" Mr. Reardon replied, 'Richie, you know you're safe. Billy, you know he's safe. But 30,000 fans see my arm. Richie, you're out." Figure skater Rosalynn Sumners has a tendency to put on weight. When she was skating for Disney, her contract required her to be weighed each week, and if she was three pounds over her desired weight, Disney fined her $10. After a while, Ms. Sumners began to stand on the scales each week with a $10 bill in her hand.
Download or read book Extraordinary Jobs in Sports written by Alecia T. Devantier and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder who wrangles the animals during a movie shoot? What it takes to be a brewmaster? How that play-by-play announcer got his job? What it is like to be a secret shopper? The new.
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Download or read book Golf written by Blaine Newnham and published by Silver Lining Books. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Sport written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments. The annual number of publications has increased from around 250 to 1,000 a year over the last decade. This is due in part to the fact that during the late 1980s and 90s, many clubs, leagues and governing bodies of sport have celebrated their centenaries and produced histories to mark this occasion and commemorate their achievements. It is also the result of the growing popularity and realisation of the importance of sport history research within academe. This international bibliography of books, articles, conference proceedings and essays in the English language is a one-stop for the sports historian to know what is new.
Download or read book British Sport A Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
