Download or read book Alun Evans The Golf Majors Book 2020 written by Alun Evans and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive source of information in print, both in paperback and Kindle ebook, on the Major Championships of Golf for over 20 years. The history, present and future of The Open Championship, inaugurated way back in 1860, and the development over 120 years of the US Open (1895), The PGA Championship (1916) and the Masters Tournament (1934), is chronicled in detailed reports and backed up by the most comprehensive statistics available on Golf's premier events. Evans, nominated for 'From Old Tom to the Tiger' in the British Sports Book Awards in 2012, provides the only regularly and accurately updated resource needed to keep abreast of these historic events. In this, the 2020 edition, he welcomes the return of Tiger Woods to Majors-winning ways when he won his fifth Masters Green Jacket - but only his first Major, since 2008; and the continuing predator-like performances of Brooks Koepka who clinically collected his fourth Major title in three seasons. He reports on the much-anticipated return of the Open to Royal Portrush in almost 70 years, and in only the second visit to the island of Ireland to hail a home-grown Champion there in Shane Lowry. He also looks forward to the Majors of 2020, welcoming back to Major Championships iconic courses like Winged Foot and Royal St George's, before returning statistically to the past glories of these, the pinnacle of all golfing events, through records and tables and information of all sorts. Every year, the author produces a mine of facts, scores, comparisons and the rest to top the previous year. A must for every golf fan, and those fans who want to read about some of the greatest achievements in any sport!

Download or read book Alun Evans the Golf Majors Book 2017 written by Alun Evans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alun Evans' now annual addictive chunk of Golf Majors facts and figures covers the epic events of the 2016 Grand Slams, as well as the usual pot pourri of results and player CVs going back to 1860; comparison tables; venues; and then 40 pages of records of all kinds associated with golf's most important Championships. In 2016, all four Majors threw up a new Major Champion: the unlikely, but well-deserving Englishman, Danny Willett, won the Masters after erstwhile boy wonder Jordan Spieth blew up on Augusta's back nine; Dustin Johnson overcame some curious officiating and a post-round stroke penalty to win an overdue Major at Oakmont's US Open; the heroic battle over the links of Royal Troon in the Open Championship saw the Swede Henrik Stenson shooting a last-round 63 to repel the maverick veteran Phil Mickelson; and Jimmy Walker's long walk to fame, successful in the PGA Championship at Baltusrol, his first Major after 17 years of trying. All these events are featured in detailed reports, backed up with performance details of every player who teed off in the year's four classics; full leaderboards (including all those who missed the cut or failed to reach the end); round leaders and low scores per round. The year's events are then summarized in a league table of the best players, based on Evans' unique scoring system. Tables are provided, too, using the same technique, to compare players of different eras, and culminate in the popular, provocative 'Hall of Fame', the Top 100 players in Major Championship history. Evans, whose 'From Old Tom to the Tiger' was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year in 2012, continues to produce record books 'par excellence', but with an engagingly light narrative to caress them into the titanic human and sporting storylines the Majors seem to create, year in, year out, without them appearing nerdy or obtrusive. Jack Nicklaus has hailed the Golf Majors series of books because he felt, 'readers and golf fans alike can easily recall their memories of the Major Championships of the world'; and Jack's greatest rival and good friend, the late, great Arnold Palmer commented, 'Alun Evans has compiled such a great summary...of the four Major Championships'. 'Alun Evans' Golf Majors Book, 2017' is a must for all golf, indeed all sports, fans. As the Daily Mail's Derek Lawrenson succinctly put it, 'When it comes to the Major Championships, look no further than Alun Evans'.

Download or read book Alun Evans the Golf Majors written by Alun Evans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS OF GOLF This, the 15th incarnation in one form or another, of Alun Evans' recording of golf's Major Championships, is the eighth consecutive annual edition of The Golf Majors since the author's mighty From Old Tom to the Tiger in 2011. The 2018 edition continues the greatest, most comprehensively detailed chronicle of these wonderful sporting events from the very first Open Championship in 1860 up to the present day. Through a balance of engaging narrative and apposite facts, a series of relevant and accurate charts, lists and tables, the most recent Major Championships' data has in Evans' latest book been intertwined with the rich fabric of golf's history. The complete story of the Majors of 2017 has been logged, telling of first-time Champions Sergio Garcia (whose win in the Masters ended a series of near misses going back two decades), Brooks Koepka (a result waiting to happen in the US Open), and Justin Thomas (emerging from the shadow of boyhood friend Jordan Spieth to take the PGA Championship). It relates the breaking the sequence of first-time Champions by Spieth himself, resurgent after an up-and-down period in the wake his back-to-back Majors successes in 2015, winning an absorbing Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. This, too, is now part of the vibrant tapestry that is the story of golf, as told through its most meaningful milestones. In addition, The Gold Majors 2018 is just that. An exhaustive discussion on the venues for 2018's Majors is punctuated with the most up-to-date information: changes to the courses and their yardages and pars provided by the organizers themselves; the history of the courses and past winners of Major Championships already hosted there. Add to that the support of copious facts and records which appear over the book's last 40 pages, it is easy to understand The Daily Mail's Derek Lawrenson's commenting that, 'When it come to the Major Championships, look no further than Alun Evans' Golf Majors', or John Hopkins of The Times ruefully complaining that it's '...a work you have to keep an eye on in case a colleague borrows it and forgets to return it...'. But you don't have to be a top golf journalist to appreciate Alun Evans' epic series. According to Jeff Silverman's review in Golf.com, '...it is a cornerstone of essential information'. Continuing the saga, therefore, Alun Evans' Golf Majors 2018 is an absolute must for all golf fans and serious followers of top class international sport. Packed with facts and stats, yet highly readable, this is the only book anyone would need on THE GOLF MAJORS

Download or read book Alun Evans the Golf Majors Book 2019 written by Alun Evans and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the next annual edition of Evans' 'The Golf Majors' series, brings the story of golf's greatest Championships bang up to date. Filled as it is with all the facts, results and records going back to 1860 when the first-ever Open Championship was held at Prestwick in Scotland, it still manages to hark back to last summer and provide full reports on the 2018 Majors. The emergence of Brooks Koepka as the sport's latest multiple Major Champion is chronicled in detail: so too, the return of Tiger Woods, once more a creditable force in Majors when many, the author included, felt that so deep had been his decline, such an astonishing recovery was beyond the wildest hopes of his millions of still-faithful fans. Whereas the book unashamedly pays homage to the events of yesteryear, and those that made them so often so memorable, it still finds time to deal with the future and looks in some detail into the Majors of 2019, where for many the high spot will be the return of the Open in July to the island of Ireland, and idyllic Royal Portrush, for the first time since 1951. Not satisfied to leave the reader short-changed Evans has made the end of the book the golf fan's ultimate fantasy, with page after page of Major records - all in all, it is the complete companion (and the only one of its kind) to see you through this year's Major Championships and look forward to the next.

Download or read book Alun Evans Golf Majors Book 2014 written by Alun Evans and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN PRINT ON THE MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS OF GOLFThis is the ninth book by Alun Evans on Golf's four biggest events - the Masters, The US Open, The Open Championship and the PGA of America Championship − since the original, now comparatively scratchy, survey saw the light of day in 1998. In order to make the review as close to an annual update as possible, much material form older editions has been omitted to save space and to keep costs down. For those readers who want to know about the first 150 years of Majors in detail, ie from 1860 to 2010, you are pointed to the jam-packed 750 pages of the author's From Old Tom to the Tiger, which was nominated in 2012 for the British Sports Book of the Year. The years 2011 and 2012 are covered in depth in the author's year books of 2012 and 2013, now suitably discounted, of course. Alun Evans' Golf Majors Book, 2014 does exactly as it says on the tin. It covers in detail the Majors of 2013, when Adam Scott deservedly won his first Major at the Masters; Justin Rose became the first Englishman to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970; Phil Mickelson at last added the Old Claret Jug to his portfolio; and super-cool Jason Dufner mugged everyone at Oak Hill to collect the PGA Championship - and, like Scott and Rose, became a Major Champion for the first time. Details can be found in this edition of the golf courses to be used in the 2014 round of Majors, based on first-hand information gleaned from the host sites and/or the organizing committees of each. Particularly of interest in 2014 will be the back-to-basic topography of Donald Ross' Pinehurst No2 in the US Open after the Coore and Crenshaw overhaul. And of course, there are the Records. Fully updated stats and full players' records are to be found for those appearing in the 21st Century; plus the expected CVs of those greats of golf who became Major Champions before the change in millennium − and the Hall of Fame compiles for comparison the records of the top 100 performers in Majors.

Download or read book Alun Evans Golf Majors Book 2016 written by Alun Evans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN PRINT ON THE MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS OF GOLFAlun Evans' exceptional series − now an annual − on the Major Championships, Golf's greatest prizes, progresses into 2016, and, among its many facets across almost 400 tightly-packed pages, looks back in detail on the events of 2015. In hindsight, 2015 may prove to be one of the most significant years in recent golf history. The lingering demise of Tiger Woods as a golfing phenomenon par excellence maybe reached its denouement in 2015. Certainly his three consecutive missed cuts in the Majors following a wan 17th in the Masters, when in 18 years as a professional he had previously only missed three cuts altogether, would suggest so. Added to that his comments, in the wake of two further surgical procedures towards the season's end, seemed to indicate he may not even play again should his troublesome back persist. Although far from being a golfing obituary on perhaps one of the best two or three golfers ever to walk on this planet, it must be questioned: logically, can we see the time when Tiger will win Majors again? Stalled on 14 titles since 2008, 'highly unlikely' seems an understatement. At the end of 2014, Rory McIlroy appeared to be Woods' natural heir apparent, having scooped up four Majors over a relatively short period of time by his mid-20s, and already a paid-up member of the Gang of Three (with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger), the youngest winners of three different Grand Slam titles. Two Top Ten finishes in the Masters and US Open of 2015, although not spectacular by his standards, would not have triggered any alarm bells for anyone interested in the Ulsterman's progress to the top of the World Ranking − if these opening Majors of the season hadn't been won by a comparative unknown, and one over four years younger than Rory. Jordan Spieth had announced himself in 2014, when only 20 years of age, he finished second in the Masters. Some fruits ripen more quickly than others: Spieth's maturity burst forth in rapid time to become the youngest winner of two different Majors since Gene Sarazen in 1922. While Rory was anguishing over an over-exuberant game of football which excluded him from the year's third Major, The Open at St Andrews, Jordan almost, after a late charge, made it three in a row − a feat which would have matched the performances of Ben Hogan in 1953 and Tiger Woods in 2000. His fourth place at the Home of Golf and a second at Whistling Straits in the PGA Championship in the final Major completed a marvellous season nonetheless, one unprecedented by one so young in the annals of Golf, and the Texan had amazingly usurped McIlroy's World No 1 crown. Zach Johnson, who won The Open, picked up his second Major after a period of eight years; Aussie Jason Day, a model of consistency in Majors for several years, finally received his just desserts by claiming the PGA title. So, after a tumultuous year, where some pundits were expecting a post-Tiger void, some assuming Rory would step into his shoes, a completely different vista of the future hove into view. McIlroy would now seem to have a very serious rival indeed, and there is the prospect of perhaps another fifteen years of a kind of Hogan-Snead or Nicklaus-Palmer struggle for supremacy in the sport. And, now that Jason Day has broken his Majors duck, there may even be the mouth-watering possibility of another Big Three, a Triumvirate for the 21st Century, in the making. Follow this story and golf history in the making with full reports, amazing stats − on every Major since 1860, and the players in a series of CVs − period performance charts, even a Hall of Fame Top 100 players, future Majors and 40 pages of records, only in Alun Evans' The Golf Majors Book, 2016.THE ONLY BOOK ANYONE WOULD EVER NEED ON GOLF'S MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Download or read book Alun Evans the Golf Majors written by Alun Evans and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MOST COMPEHENSIVE SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN PRINT ON THE MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS OF GOLFThis, the tenth in the much praised GOLF MAJORS series, follows the pattern of its predecessors in bringing the story of golf's greatest Championships and Champions up to date, and prepares new ground for the years to come. Among the now familiar, but endlessly fascinating, updated records sections, this edition, through its detailed recaps of the 2014 Majors, highlights a potential cataclysmic shift in power at the top of the men's game. For several years we have seen a decline in the performances of Tiger Woods, in everyone's book one of the top five golfers of all time – and in many eyes perhaps in the top three or even higher. A series of injuries induced by the incredible pressures he has put on his body over time has no doubt been a huge reason why he has not won a Major since 2008; and when he's been free from physical pain, he has suffered considerable mental anguish, albeit self-inflicted for the most part. During the brief interludes of liberation from personal trauma and physical stresses, Tiger had, until 2014, continued to play well in, and win, Tour events, indicating he could still be (but maybe not good enough to increase his tally of 14 Major titles?) a fiercely competitive golfer on his day. Ten years earlier that 'day' would be replicated many times during a Tiger season; now it appears less so, and not to the supreme levels in performance of yesteryear. Until the second half of 2014, the hiatus in Woods' hitherto unbroken supremacy since 2008 had been occupied by a few talented newcomers like Bubba Watson and Martin Kaymer, both multiple Major Champions after the Masters and US Open earlier in 2014. Older players, like Ernie Els (for the first time in ten years) and Darren Clarke (never) picked Major Championship trophies. It also allowed the undoubted talents of Phil Mickelson to flourish into his 40s; and the stirrings of a new force, one who showed signs of taking over where Tiger left off, in Rory McIlroy. But after success in Majors in 2011 and 2012, suddenly Rory-hype dried up amid a romantic liaison, and a not so romantic liaison: distractions of the heart combined with the bedding-in of a new sponsor and the new clubs they supplied, seemed to dampen his ardour for the game of golf. Following a 2014 Masters and US Open without Woods, recuperating yet again after back problems, and a luke-warm McIlroy, the interregnum suggested no signs of ending. Then, as we know, Rory saw his golfing path clearly again and walked off with all the spoils in the Open and PGA Championships. Within a few short weeks in the high summer of 2014, the spotlight was again on the Ulsterman, and with it premonitions and prophesies of what may be in store, with or without the return of Woods to the highest echelons of the game once more. Check out the stories as they unfolded, see how Rory's two wins have affected his position the Top 100 Hall of Fame, and get up to date with all the facts, all the stats, all the records in Alun Evans' The Golf Majors Book, 2015. THE ONLY BOOK ANYONE WOULD NEED ON THE GOLF'S MAJORS CHAMPIONSHIP.

Download or read book Golf Majors written by Alun Evans and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains all you need to know about the golf majors, this yearbook is a must-have for all golf fans. Contains statistics on all the lajors going back to the beginning. Also contains information on all the courses being used for the 2005 season.

Download or read book The Golf Majors Records Yearbook 2012 written by Alun Evans and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evans has produced his seventh OannualO concerning the four greatest events in the world of Golf: the Masters, the U.S. Open, the (British) Open, and the PGA of America ChampionshipNcollectively, Othe Majors.O

Download or read book English as a Global Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

Download or read book The College Board Book of Majors written by College Entrance Examination Board and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking a college major is a two-step process: First, you have to discover which areas of study interest you the most; then you need to find out which colleges offer those majors. The College Board Book of Majors is the only resource that helps you do both. Whether you're just beginning to look at colleges or have already enrolled, you'll find what you need to know about every major -- from accounting to zoology -- offered in every college from Maine to Hawaii. Book jacket.

Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Amor Towles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

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Download or read book Wealth Poverty and Politics written by Thomas Sowell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.

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Download or read book Keeping Faith with the Constitution written by Goodwin Liu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.