Bradley S Klein

Wide Open Fairways

A Journey Across the Landscapes of Modern Golf

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Produktbeschreibung

Bradley S. Klein is architecture editor of Golfweek magazine and runs its national golf course rating system. He is a former PGA Tour caddie and has been inducted into the International Caddie Hall of Fame. He lectures widely to professional trade groups throughout the United States and overseas on topics of golf design, the golf development industry, and golf course operations and maintenance. Klein is the author of the definitive Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and His Golf Courses and most recently Rough Meditations: From Tour Caddie to Golf Course Critic, An Insider¿s Look at the Game. He was¿named 2015 Donald Ross Award winner by the American Society of Golf Course Architects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 164mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780803240377
• ISBN-10: 0803240376
• Artikelnr.: 38137815

Autorenporträt

Bradley S. Klein is architecture editor of Golfweek magazine and runs its national golf course rating system. He is a former PGA Tour caddie and has been inducted into the International Caddie Hall of Fame. He lectures widely to professional trade groups throughout the United States and overseas on topics of golf design, the golf development industry, and golf course operations and maintenance. Klein is the author of the definitive Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and His Golf Courses and most recently Rough Meditations: From Tour Caddie to Golf Course Critic, An Insider's Look at the Game. He was named 2015 Donald Ross Award winner by the American Society of Golf Course Architects.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Getting Started
1. A Sense of Place: Knowing Where You Are
2. Nebraska: Golf in Willa Cather Country
3. New Mexico: The Road to Los Alamos
4. North Dakota: Why Not Minot?
5. Oregon: Bandon Charette
6. The Bronx: Two Master Builders
7. Connecticut: Home at Last
Postscript: A Restorationist Manifesto
Acknowledgments
For Further Reading