In Golf Architecture for Normal People, golf architecture expert Geoff Shackelford elucidates the world’s most interactive art form in ways that all golfers can enjoy. For those smitten by this centuries-old sport, Shackelford takes readers on a fun walking tour through what is often considered a rarefied field and achieves the following along the way: –Helps golfers of all skill levels become keener observers while getting more joy out of playing any course –Introduces simple and easy-to-remember ways to judge a design’s merits –Cuts through entrenched architectural snootiness to drive home the importance of a few timeless design tenets –Demystifies the complex, interdependent and often perplexing array of factors that make a course fun to play –Provides readers new tools to achieve a more sophisticated understanding what they love (or hate) about a design –Suggests diplomatic ways to disarm design elitists and settle 19th-hole debates -Advises how to merge technology and common sense to decode deceptive design elements –Shares lists of must-see courses and resources to further your connoisseurship.
Author: Geoff Shackelford
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tatra Press
Published: 06/01/2023
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781732222755
Language: English
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