Extreme Golf: The World's Most Extreme Courses

by Duncan Lennard (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $4.22

  Since golf was first played far back as the 15th century on linksland along Scotland's east coast, hundreds of other types of courses have been designed. Today, it's not enough just to play on traditional, classic courses. Players are searching for more novel ways of hitting a golf ball. Extreme Golf considers a wide range of contemporary adaptations of the game of golf and golf courses. There are four main themes behind the choice of courses included: location, design, surface and circumstance, from sweltering courses in the desert to the freezing cold ice golf championships through erotic courses in lush surroundings to harsh surfaces in war torn countries and hazardous circumstances in the African bush. While there is still an insatiable demand for classic courses, there is now also a burgeoning market for zany surfaces, tricky locations and freaky designs. This book will take you on a journey around the world's most unusual, difficult and unique golf courses and will reveal how the game engenders amazing enthusiasm among its followers. Duncan Lennard's celebratory chronicle captures the ethos behind extreme golf. At the same time, the manicured fairways, rigid dress codes and extensive rules are not completely abandoned. The book also features the world's most difficult courses and most awesome holes. This combination of extreme, difficult, unusual, unique, natural and unnatural golf courses will open golfers' eyes to a whole new challenge.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.27

  Golf is no longer the elite sport it once was. Its ever increasing popularity has led to players searching out more novel and adrenaline-fuelled ways to play the game. Traditional courses are no longer enough for many of today's golfers - they are looking for clean extreme - where the rough is patrolled by animals and the greens are sometimes whites. From sweltering courses in the desert to the freezing cold ice golf championships in Greenland, and from eroticly shaped bunkers in lush surroundings in France to harsh and hazardous surfaces in Kabul, `Extreme Golf' is a journey around the world's most geographically extreme, climatically challenging, dangerous and uniquely designed courses. Divided into four chapters - `Location Location Location', `In the Rough', `Courses for Concern' and `Golf by Design' - this book will open the eyes of both the well-practised and armchair golfer.

  Duncan Lennard's light-hearted and engaging text is accompanied by breathtaking and often humorous photographs capturing the true spirit of extreme golf. In addition there are quotes interspersed throughout from golfers who have played on the courses and a gazetteer at the back of the book giving information on all the courses included and many more.