Golf Course Architecture for Normal People is a primer on golf architecture that explains how to be a more informed critic without becoming a total lunatic. Golf is supposed to be fun and for reasons unknown, the study, debate and enjoyment of courses has been hijacked by snobbery. This book demystifies golf design in a fun and even irreverent manner. It also shows how a greater understanding of a golf course's design and improve a golfer's score and his/her appreciation of the game.
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Geoff Shackelford is the well-known author, writer, blogger, podcaster, golf architect, and television analyst. He covers major championship golf and course design matters in his Substack newsletter, The Quadrilateral, aka The Quad, which has thousands of subscribers. In addition to his 11 books on golf, including GROUNDS FOR GOLF, his writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, Golf Magazine, Links, Golf Digest, Golf World, The Golfer, Golfweb, Golf Journal, The Masters Journal, Golf Course Architecture, Golf Architecture, Golfweek, Golf Digest Index, Golf Digest, Golf World, and golf.com. He is also longtime Golf Channel contributor.
His golf course design work includes Rustic Canyon, rated the USA's #1 Best Value by Golf Magazine. As the author of a biography on architect George Thomas, Geoff worked on the multi-year project to restore Los Angeles Country Club's North Course, host of the 2023 United States Open.
A southern California native living in Santa Monica, he played college golf at Pepperdine.
Geoff can be contacted through:
Website: www.geoffshackelford.com
The Quad: www.geoffshackelford.com/the-quadrilateral
Twitter: twitter.com/GeoffShac
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Hardback. Condición: New. Golf Course Architecture for Normal People is a primer on golf architecture that explains how to be a more informed critic without becoming a total lunatic. Golf is supposed to be fun and for reasons unknown, the study, debate and enjoyment of courses has been hijacked by snobbery. This book demystifies golf design in a fun and even irreverent manner. It also shows how a greater understanding of a golf course's design and improve a golfer's score and his/her appreciation of the game. Nº de ref. del artículo: LU-9781732222755
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Hardback. Condición: New. Golf Course Architecture for Normal People is a primer on golf architecture that explains how to be a more informed critic without becoming a total lunatic. Golf is supposed to be fun and for reasons unknown, the study, debate and enjoyment of courses has been hijacked by snobbery. This book demystifies golf design in a fun and even irreverent manner. It also shows how a greater understanding of a golf course's design and improve a golfer's score and his/her appreciation of the game. Nº de ref. del artículo: LU-9781732222755
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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781732222755
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