Sport > Golf

In this detailed and comprehensive study Scott Macpherson takes the reader on a journey of discovery from golf's past to its future. We see not only the way in which early remodelling of the Old Course changed the game itself, but also how the course has adapted to almost two centuries of considerable technological change to both the ball and club as well as huge leaps in the skill and strength of players. First published 2007. 267mm x 242mm 208 pages

Tiger Woods‘s golf caddy Steve Williams shares his recipe for launching your mind into what Tiger calls The Zone – the state of mind in which you play golf at the outer limits of your physical and mental potential.Hitting The Zone is no accident. You get there by training your mind – in exactly the same way you train your body by practising your swing. Steve Williams’s mind-training blueprint shows you how to drastically improve your golf, whether your goal is to finally break 100, or to ... read more

A comprehensive guide to building a consistent golf swing. It explains each key area of the swing - grip, set-up, leg action, swing plane, synchonicity, release, and the role of the mind - using illustrations. It includes a range of practical exercises that helps to accelerate the learning process.

The bestselling author of "Zen Golf" (more than 100,000 copies sold) presents a new book of profound wisdom and proven techniques for achieving the confidence in putting that all golfers know is the key to peak performance on the greens. Blending Buddhist wisdom, modern psychology, and practical golf instruction, Dr. Joe Parents 2002 book "Zen Golf" broke out to become the top instructional book in golf, and continues to be a steady bestseller. Now, in the eagerly awaited follow-up, Dr. Parent provides readers with a new approach... read more

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Golf has undergone a titanium revolution: new materials, new techniques, and new approaches have radically reshaped the simple act of swatting a little ball towards a distant target. The endlessly inquisitive golfer-which is to say, all of them-has had nowhere to turn to get any sense of WHY their shots go slicing into the distance, WHY they should care about the properties of titanium, WHY putts tend to break to the west, WHY swinging harder doesn't necessarily make the ball go further, and WHY they can hit the ball like a dream o... read more

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Golf But Were too Afraid to Ask" explains the often-baffling laws of modern sport in a light-hearted and easy-to-understand way to the new fan/spectator or the 'sport widow'. This is a witty, off-the-wall guide to the rules of the modern game, as if written by a very patient but understanding friend. Writer Iain Macintosh explains what it is about golf that makes it so popular, and why you should be watching it. He guides the novice through the basic rules of the game in a bouncy, easy-to-f... read more

From great players like Tiger Woods, to techniques and the Ryder Cup, this work helps you to discover everything you ever wanted to know about golf. Golf is one of the world's fastest growing sports, so if you're an aspiring player, or are one of the 60 million who play worldwide, this guide is for you. This work helps to discover all about golf: from its ancient origins to global competitions today. In this work learn about the strokes and analyse the talents of the world's best, and check out the gear and try out the equipment, f... read more

Passionate, tireless golfer and writer Tom Hyde travelled New Zealand from Houhara to Bluff, examining golf courses large and small, to produce this tantalising selection of 100 golf holes to die for. The criteria? Not just how a hole plays, but the stories associated with it!

'Every weekend, thousands of otherwise rational men and women are cursing, kicking at divots and smashing expensively milled putters against the trunks of immovable hardwood trees. These players go home in a toxic funk to inflict gloom upon their loved ones until the following Saturday, when they rush back to the golf course and do it all over again.'
In the summer of 2005, Carl Hiaasen picked up a golf club again for the first time in 32 years. He was not the best of players in 1973, and had certainly not got any younger in ... read more

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE is an illustrated guide to the best moments in the history of the world's third biggest sporting event. (The worldwide audience for the 2002 Ryder Cup was over one billion.) Based on an article written for GOLF PUNK magazine, the text takes a modern and witty approach to the biennial (and not always entirely friendly) golf tournament that pits America against the combined strength of the European nations; it will also feature contributions from the players involved. The evocative photographs come from one of... read more

Weather hazards, inadequate technique or practice, lack of physical coordination, erratic biorythyms, hangovers, an unruly mind and statistical improbability - these are just a few of the obstacles to hitting a pure golf shot Che Guevara, Alice Cooper, Dennis Hopper, and Tiger Woods have all struggled with the above to a greater or lesser degree. And, since being initiated as a child into the arcane mysteries of the game of golf Timothy O'Grady too, has carried in his mind an obsession with the sport, shrugging off its social unacc... read more

In this ground-breaking approach to golf instruction, Dr Joseph Parent, both a noted PGA Tour coach and a respected Buddhist teacher, draws on this natural connection to teach golfers how to play with more consistency and less frustration, and consequently how to lower their scores. 'When body and mind are synchronized, we can uncover our inherent dignity and confidence. The ultimate goal is not just to help people become better golfers, but better human beings.' Zen Golf offers a fresh perspective for golf and for life. Instead ... read more

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In the world of golf, just as certain courses have achieved iconic status - Pine Valley, Augusta National, Huntingdale, Princes - so are their respective creators, Harry Colt, Alister MacKenzie, CH Alison and JSF Morrison equally revered. "Masters of Design" pays homage to these four great sculptors of the land, blending lively anecdotes and atmospheric history with spectacular photographs that evoke glories of playing the fairways of many of the world's finest golf courses. From the dramatic sea-scoured headlands of Cypress Point ... read more

Although Alistair Cooke called golf 'a method of self-torture, disguised as a game', from the first time he swung a club at the age of fifty-five, he was hooked for the rest of his life. This book brings together the best of Cooke's writings about his greatest sporting passion, which display the incomparable wit, the unexpected insights, the mischievous charm, the elegance and enchantment which made him famous for over sixty years as a broadcaster. Whether he is writing about the pleasures of a bout in the snow, how the 'senior gol... read more

For over half a century, Alistair Cooke was the leading interpreter of America to the rest of the world. In the course of millions of printed and broadcast words, he frequently brought his unique blend of curiosity, wit and perceptive analysis to bear on sporting events on both sides of the Atlantic. Cooke had a lifelong fascination with sports - but of all the sports he witnessed and covered, his first love was always golf, about which nobody has written more brilliantly and more lovingly. Here, gathered together for the first tim... read more

Video swing analysis revolutionized the way golf is taught, but players have had to rely on teaching professionals to analyze their swing videos -- until now. "The Picture-Perfect Golf Swing" is the first-ever complete guide to using a digital video camera to develop the perfect golf swing, on your own. One of "Golf Magazine"'s Top 100 Teachers, Michael Breed has long used video analysis to correct the swings of his students. At the core of Breed's teaching approach is the idea that seeing is believing: when you actually see the fl... read more

Out of print edition. Second-hand copy. First published 1986.

Like the landscape in New Zealand, the character of our golf courses is impressively diverse. They range form the top resort courses, such as Millbrook in Queenstown, or Kauri Cliffs in the Bay of Islands, to famous parkland courses like Remuera in Auckland and Russley in Christchurch; superb coastal links courses such as Muriwai on Auckland's west coast, Paraparaumu north of Wellington, and Chisholm Park in Dunedin; and a wonderful assortment of smaller country courses, complete with sheep on the fairways and fenced greens. The... read more