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<\/a>Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ben Hogan<\/p>\nOver the past sixty-five years, millions of golfers have studied Ben Hogan\u2019s Five Lessons, making it the bestselling golf book of all time. Now, Hogan\u2019s masterpiece has received the definitive edition it deserves.<\/em><\/p>\n Widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers in the history of the sport, Hogan is especially known for his mastery of the golf swing. At the start of his career, he played with a hook that threatened to ruin his game, until he dedicated himself to correcting it\u2014and in doing so, he gained a rare and hard-fought understanding of the fundamentals. Curious fans itched for clues about his legendary technique, dubbed \u201cthe secret,\u201d that allowed him to persevere and even return to the height of his powers after a car crash that shattered his body and almost took his life in 1949. His terse answer, \u201cI dug it out of the dirt\u201d\u2014the dirt of the driving range\u2014fueled the Hogan mystique. He went on to become one of only five players to win all four professional championships, claiming nine major championships in total.<\/em><\/p>\n In 1957, Hogan partnered with Herbert Warren Wind, \u201cthe dean of American golf writers\u201d (The New York Times), and illustrator Anthony Ravielli to capture his expertise from the peak of his career in a series of lessons. Hogan believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break eighty. In each chapter, a different tested fundamental is explained and demonstrated with clear illustrations, as though Hogan were giving you a personal lesson with the same skill and precision that made him a legend.<\/em><\/p>\n Now expanded with a new introduction by Lee Trevino, essays about Hogan and the book\u2019s legacy, unpublished photos of the publicity-shy Hogan, and more, this definitive edition offers greater context and fresh insight into an icon of the game.<\/em> – Avid Reader Press \/ Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n Learn the game and perfect your technique with this guide to golf for beginners<\/em><\/p>\n Golf is a popular hobby sport, but if you\u2019ve never picked up a club before, it\u2019s hard to know where to begin. Geared for the absolute beginner, Golf Stroke by Stroke is a comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to head to the golf course with confidence. From the clubhouse to the green, golf pro Brian Cowell will introduce you to each stage of the game and teach you how to swing a club through a series of simple lessons with full-color photos and baby-step-by-baby-step instructions. In addition, you\u2019ll get:<\/em><\/p>\n -DK<\/p>\n When he set out to play each of Golf Digest\u2019s America\u2019s100 greatest golf courses in one year, Jimmie James knew he was attempting the impossible. But then again, he\u2019d spent his entire life defying the odds.<\/em><\/p>\n James was born invisible. His birth certificate, long since filed away in some clerk\u2019s office in East Texas, recorded facts about him that were deemed most relevant in the late 1950s: \u201ccolored\u201d and \u201cillegitimate.\u201d His great-great-grandmother was enslaved, and his early life was confided by the privation and segregation of the late Jim Crow-era South.<\/em><\/p>\n Four decades later\u2014having put himself through an HBCU and determinedly risen through the executive ranks at ExxonMobil\u2014he embarked on his journey to play the 100 greatest golf courses in the United States. In a single year. From the first tee at Augusta National, the distance between the world he grew up in and the world of extreme privilege to which he\u2019d now managed to gain access was impossible to ignore.<\/em> – Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n A celebration of what makes the Masters singular and iconic<\/em> Seven Days in Augusta spans everything from the par-3 contest, to Amen Corner, to Butler Cabin. Mark Cannizzaro goes behind the scenes of the exclusive competition, covering wide-ranging topics including green jacket rituals, tales from The Crow’s Nest atop the clubhouse, the extreme lengths some fans have gone to acquire tickets, and what goes on outside the gates during Masters week. Also featuring some of the most memorable and dramatic moments from the tournament’s history, this is an essential, expansive look at golf’s favorite event.<\/em> – Triumph Books<\/p>\n Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in a treasure trove of original pieces about what the game has meant to him and to others.<\/em><\/p>\n This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an 11-year prison stint. We learn how a man on his third heart nearly won the U.S. Open, how a Vietnam POW saved his life playing 18 holes a day in his tiny cell, and about the course that\u2019s absolutely free.<\/em><\/p>\n Reilly mines all of the game\u2019s quirky traditions\u2014from the shot of bourbon you take before you tee off at Peyton Manning\u2019s course, to the way the starter at St. Andrews announces to your group (and the hundreds of tourists watching), \u201cYou\u2019re on the first tee, gentlemen.\u201d He means that quite literally: St. Andrews has the first tee ever invented. We\u2019ll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that\u2019s underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators; not to mention Reilly\u2019s attempt to play the most mini-golf holes in one day.<\/em><\/p>\n Reilly expounds on all the great figures in the game, from Phil Mickelson to Bobby Jones to the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods. He explains why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau unless we hate genius, the greatest upset in women\u2019s golf history, and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before, and the great fun of being Jim Nantz. Connecting it all will be the story of Reilly\u2019s own personal journey through the game, especially as it connects to his tumultuous relationship with his father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. This is Reilly\u2019s valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without.<\/em> – Grand Central Publishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working in a library means we get to see what types of books are popular at any given time. When the John Deere Classic happened in July in Silvis, I noticed an increase in patrons asking for books about golf. 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<\/a>Golf: Stroke by Stroke<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Brian A. Crowell<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jimmie James<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes at the Masters<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Mark Cannizzaro<\/p>\n
\nThe Masters is unquestionably the crown jewel of golf’s major tournaments, not only for the transcendent performances it has inspired over the years, but for the incomparable sights and sounds of Augusta National and its environs, each distinct element contributing to the storied, rarefied atmosphere which draws tens of thousands to Georgia each spring.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Rick Reilly<\/p>\n