Golf Architecture for Normal People: Sharpening Your Course Design Eye to Make Golf (Slightly) Less Maddening

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Golf Architecture for Normal People: Sharpening Your Course Design Eye to Make Golf (Slightly) Less Maddening



Geoff Shackelford
Published Date : 2023-06
Amazon

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In Golf Architecture for Normal People, golf architecture expert Geoff Shackelford elucidates the world’s most interactive art form in ways that all golfers can enjoy. For those smitten by this centuries-old sport, Shackelford takes readers on a fun walking tour through what is often considered a rarefied field and achieves the following along the way: –Helps golfers of all skill levels become keener observers while getting more joy out of playing any course –Introduces simple and easy-to-remember ways to judge a design’s merits –Cuts through entrenched architectural snootiness to drive home the importance of a few timeless design tenets –Demystifies the complex, interdependent and often perplexing array of factors that make a course fun to play –Provides readers new tools to achieve a more sophisticated understanding what they love (or hate) about a design –Suggests diplomatic ways to disarm design elitists and settle 19th-hole debates -Advises how to merge technology and common sense to decode deceptive design elements –Shares lists of must-see courses and resources to further your connoisseurship.


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design
ways
golfers
fun
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readers
-Advises
elitists
technology
joy
hate
interactive
love
–Shares
judge
centuries-old
9th-hole
must-see
tour
elucidates
–Introduces
Golf
snootiness
play
golf
–Provides
debates
levels
smitten
–Helps
In
worlds
Architecture
observers
takes
designs
rarefied
common
merge
deceptive
decode
form
disarm
achieve
tools
tenets
settle
home
array
–Suggests
keener
connoisseurship
sophisticated
architectural
understanding
sense
art
skill
field
easy-to-remember
courses
interdependent
importance
diplomatic
complex
factors
drive
For
make
lists
People
expert
considered
walking
enjoy
architecture
–Cuts
elements
simple
merits
Normal
timeless
playing
Geoff
perplexing
sport
–Demystifies
resources
entrenched
achieves

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