Lindsay, Charles.
Lost balls : great holes, tough shots, and bad lies / Charles Lindsay ; foreword by John Updike ; "Between nines" by Greg Norman. - 1st ed. - New York : Bulfinch Press, c2005. - 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Foreword / John Updike -- Old world -- Between nines / Greg Norman -- New world -- Afterword.
Charles Lindsay's photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards where golf balls are lostrough, woods, bunkers, and wetlandsas well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer with plenty of experience losing balls, Lindsay photographs his way to the heart of the game with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process, he discovers balls ravaged by golfers, gators, and foxesand lost for over a century. Lindsay even encounters what is believed to be the world's oldest golf ballunearthed in a cellar in the Netherlands alongside a primitive club. The photographs were taken at celebrated courses in North America, England, Scotland, and Ireland: Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Bethpage, Fossil Trace, Troon, St. Andrews, Royal St. Georges, Ballybunion, Old Head, and many others. The foreword by John Updike is a celebration of golf and nature and where the two meet. A humorous story by golf giant Greg Norman rounds out the book.
0821261851 9780821261859
2004114548
013170536 Uk
Golf--Pictorial works.
GV967.5 / .L56 2005
796.352022 Lin 13
Lost balls : great holes, tough shots, and bad lies / Charles Lindsay ; foreword by John Updike ; "Between nines" by Greg Norman. - 1st ed. - New York : Bulfinch Press, c2005. - 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Foreword / John Updike -- Old world -- Between nines / Greg Norman -- New world -- Afterword.
Charles Lindsay's photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards where golf balls are lostrough, woods, bunkers, and wetlandsas well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer with plenty of experience losing balls, Lindsay photographs his way to the heart of the game with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process, he discovers balls ravaged by golfers, gators, and foxesand lost for over a century. Lindsay even encounters what is believed to be the world's oldest golf ballunearthed in a cellar in the Netherlands alongside a primitive club. The photographs were taken at celebrated courses in North America, England, Scotland, and Ireland: Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Bethpage, Fossil Trace, Troon, St. Andrews, Royal St. Georges, Ballybunion, Old Head, and many others. The foreword by John Updike is a celebration of golf and nature and where the two meet. A humorous story by golf giant Greg Norman rounds out the book.
0821261851 9780821261859
2004114548
013170536 Uk
Golf--Pictorial works.
GV967.5 / .L56 2005
796.352022 Lin 13