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Title/Author/ Publisher/Price |
WHERE GOLF IS GREAT: THE FINEST COURSES OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND/ James W.
Finegan/ Artisan/$60 |
GOLF COURSES: FAIRWAYS OF THE WORLD/Photography by David Cannon/
Rizzoli/$195 |
GOLF'S BEST NEW DESTINATIONS/Brian McCallen/ Abrams/$50 |
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In a Nutshell |
Photo-rich repackaging of his classic travelogues, Blasted Heaths and
Blessed Greens and Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas |
Huge, stunning, evocative images of the game's landscapes |
An illustrated Baedeker of resorts and upscale publics around the world
that have opened since the mid-1990s |
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Weight |
8.4 pounds |
9.2 pounds |
4.0 pounds |
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Bona Fides |
A veteran of more than 30 trips to Scotland and almost as many to Ireland,
England and Wales
|
A good enough amateur to have tried qualifying for the British Open, he's
the official shutterbug of the R&A |
A former senior editor at Golf Magazine, he has written two other
coffee-table guides to resort and public golf |
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Sensibility |
Insightful old uncle who has never met a blade of grass he wasn't thankful
for |
Artsy connoisseur of the signature hole |
Cheerleading tour guide |
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Format |
Stop by stop--with lots of useful advice |
All pictures, all the time |
Inflated travel brochures cataloged by locale |
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Recommended Spread |
Forty-nine stunning pages on the Kingdom of Fife
|
One-by-five-foot pullout of the 11th on the Ailsa course at Turnberry with
the sun serenading the lighthouse |
The fusion Chino-Latino grub at Aramara (the restaurant at the Four Seasons
Resort Punta Mita near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico) |
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Most Likely to Inspire ... |
Envy |
Wanderlust |
Oversaturation |
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Missing Links |
England and Wales
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Shinnecock and the National |
Kingsbarns and Doonbeg |
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Major Shortcoming |
Too bulky to pack in a suitcase |
Too wide to fit through the front door |
Too many B-list ports of call and second-rate layouts |
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Nicest Touch |
Fun lists including best restaurants, best par-3s and appealing
villages |
Signed and numbered 12-by-16-inch print of the Old Course at sunrise |
The unexpecteds: Cyprus, Turkey, Brazil and the Czech Republic
|
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Last Words |
A stylish, practical scrapbook of Celtic journeys |
Lots of oohs and aahs, but not much substance beyond its wispy introductory
text |
Lots of good, but also the bad, the ugly and the ho-hum |
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