Favorite Golf Book?

[Tatertuck]

I'm sure this is a topic already, but I couldn't find a thread in the searches. So if you've started one, I'm sorry. Regardless, maybe this can be a new refresher thread. I'm a big reader, and am always trying to find new golf books. I just finished 18 In America which I absolutely loved and ignited my thirst for golf literature. I've read, Men in Green, which candidly I couldn't finish. The Big Miss, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect. What are some of your favorite books?

[Beenerpro]

Dead, Solid, Perfect - or anything by Dan Jenkins

Golf In The Kingdom

Edited May 20, 2021 by Beenerpro

[Blonde Line Lizard]

The greatest game ever played.

The grand slam.  (Both from Mark Frost)

Freddy and me.

[smashdn]

Fiction

Golf in the Kingdom

 

Improve Your Play

Every Shot Counts

Lowest Score Wins

 

Architecture

The Anatomy of a Golf Course

 

[PJE]

• Paper Tiger-An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros by Tom Coyne

An everyman's quest to get really good.

• Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy

Either you like it or hate it as a bunch of New Age psycho babble.

• Driving the Green-The Making of a Golf Course by John Strawn

Insights on building a golf course.

• Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

Not a golf book, per se, but a golf match between James Bond and Goldfinger figures prominently in part in the story.

• To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure by Michael Bamberger

Some self discovery on a road trip to play golf in Scotland. 

 

[JeffreySpicoli]

Herbert Warren Wind's The Story of American Golf.

[caniac6]

I really like James Dodson

[Hawkeye77]

I have so many, only keep the ones I like.  Nicklaus' The Greatest Game Of All is my favorite of all time.  Of the golf books I've picked up the last few years Dodson's American Triumvirate is outstanding and fascinating.

[Mr. Grumpy]

Who's Your Caddy? by Rick Reilly... 

[FatSlice]

The Match by Mark Frost

[elwhippy]

Harvey Pennick's Little Red Book. So much wisdom. 

[aenemated]

Golf in the Kingdom really made an impression on me as a golf obsessed teenager. Golf My Way was my game-building bible back in the day and also really liked A Swing for Life being a big Faldo fan when I was in high school. Didn't know a damn thing about course management till Tom Watson's Strategic Golf. Of course, Harvey's Little Red Book was a delight to read and still is to this day.

 

More recently, gotten a lot out of Lowest Score Wins and Stock Tour Swing. 

[scomac2002]

Moe & Me; by Lorne Rubenstein.

[Tupperwolf]

A Course Called Ireland (the 3rd in the series, A Course Called America, is coming out on the 25th, I've already preordered)

[seis]

Tommy’s Honor was a good read about the origins of modern professional golf. Ignore the movie.

[games]

  Feherty’s early comedy “Somewhere in Ireland, a Village is Missing an Idiot” is sooo funny.

 

I’m no longer a fan of Alan Shipnuck for his hit piece on Patrick Reed, but Bud Sweat and Tees was great. As if I needed reason to be a Rich Beem fan.

 

 

[slocagolfer]

Golf in the Kingdom - agree with previous comments

 

The Match - I got to relive my round at Cypress.

 

Commander in Cheat - make your own comment ;0)

 

A Course Called Ireland - great travelogue/golf adventure

 

 

[DavidH88]

Too Many lol but overall I like the following;

 

Fiction

 

The Legend of Bagger Vance, Tommy's Honour, The Greatest Game Ever Played (All made into films)

 

Monarch of the Green (Young Tom Morris) 

 

anything history related since I love the history of the game and equipment

 

instructional I have; 

A Swing for Life (Sir Nick Faldo) One Putt (Ken Brown) How to Play Golf (Harry Vardon) and others

 

But my rarest book from my collection is

 

My Golfing Life Autobiography by Harry Vardon which I saved from the cull at the library I worked at before it closed down.

 

all good reads and Good Golf everyone