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Lines of Charm: Brilliant And Irreverent Quotes, Notes, And Anecdotes from Golf's Golden Age Architects
The Future of Golf: How Golf Lost Its Way and How to Get It Back

by Geoff Shackelford
Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design

by Geoff Shackelford
The Art of Golf Design

by Michael Miller, Geoff Shackelford
Alister MacKenzie's Cypress Point Club

by Geoff Shackelford
The Golden Age of Golf Design

by Geoff Shackelford
The Good Doctor Returns: A Novel

by Geoff Shackelford
Masters of the Links: Essays on the Art of Golf and Course Design
The Captain: George C. Thomas Jr. and His Golf Architecture

by Geoff Shackelford
The Riviera Country Club: A Definitive History

by Geoff Shackelford

Current Reading

Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die: Golf Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations (Fifty Places Series)

by Chris Santella

Follow up includes yours truly nominating Rustic Canyon. Shocking, I know.
Sports Illustrated The Golf Book

by Editors of Sports Illustrated
Planet Golf USA: The Definitive Reference to Great Golf Courses in America

by Darius Oliver

The highly anticipated second volume comes to America for more design analysis and stunning photography.
St Andrews Golf Links: Six Centuries of Golf

by Tom Jarrett, Peter Mason

Another St. Andrews book to warm us up for the 2010 Open.
Swinley Forest Golf Club

by Nicholas Courtney
Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger

by Dan Jenkins
The Leaderboard: Conversations on Golf and Life

by Amy Alcott
A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee

by Tom Coyne
The 19th Hole: Architecture of the Golf Clubhouse

by Richard Diedrich

SI Golf Plus calls this the #1 golf book of 2008.
World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They are Played

by Mark Rowlinson

New and updated, including contributions from Ran Morrissett and Daniel Wexler.
Golf in America (Sport and Society)

by George B. Kirsch

Fresh and well researched perspective on the history of golf in America
Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season

by Bob Smiley
Pebble Beach: The Official Golf History

by Neal Hotelling
Free: The Future of a Radical Price

by Chris Anderson

Classics

The Book Of Golfers: A Biographical History Of The Royal & Ancient Game

by Daniel Wexler
A Season In Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands

by Lorne Ruberstein

A summer in Dornoch.
Emerald Gems:The Links of Ireland

by Laurence Casey Lambrecht

Beautiful images of the classic Irish links.
Golf Architecture in America: Its Strategy and Construction

by Geo. C. Thomas
The Spirit of St. Andrews

by Alister MacKenzie
Club Life: The Games Golfers Play

by John Steinbreder
Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and his Golf Courses

by Bradley S. Klein
Evangelist of Golf: The Story of Charles Blair MacDonald

by George Bahto
The Course Beautiful : A Collection of Original Articles and Photographs on Golf Course Design

Treewolf Prod
Reminiscences Of The Links

by Albert Warren Tillinghast, Richard C. Wolffe, Robert S. Trebus, Stuart F. Wolffe
Gleanings from the Wayside

by Albert Warren Tillinghast
The Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses & Holes

by Daniel Wexler

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Monday

14Jul2008

Union Bay Golf Links Video

Monday, July 14, 2008 at 10:56 AM

The visionairies behind the Union Bay Golf Links project have posted this video explaining the project near Comox, B.C. on Vancouver Island. We hope to start construction in 2009!