The first-ever biography of an overlooked PGA star and one of the best Black golfers in history. His story is unprecedented in the world of golf. Born to a family of migrant laborers, Calvin Peete dropped out of school in the eighth grade, went to work picking crops, first swung a golf club at the age of 23-and rose to the top of the PGA. In ......
Building Your Business Network One Round of Golf at a Time
A guidebook for developing your leadership and networking skills through golf Access to the game of golf opens doors to business opportunities for professional development and builds leadership skills. Unfortunately, this access has often been limited to those with club memberships or experience with the game-those privy to the rules, both ......
This book explores the civil rights activism of the Miami Times between 1948 and 1958 by highlighting its effort to help abolish the "Monday-only" policy that restricted black golfers to a single day of access to the Miami Springs Municipal Golf Course.
It's a golf hall of fame, shame, and arcane. Collected in this handsome volume are more than one hundred of golf's greatest moments-from the famous to the long forgotten-from the links of Scotland in the 1800s to the 1938 U.S. Open, the 1954 US Women's Open to the 2010 Masters, and even to the little known Martini Invitational in 1971... and ......
This book explores the civil rights activism of the Miami Times between 1948 and 1958 by highlighting its effort to help abolish the "Monday-only" policy that restricted black golfers to a single day of access to the Miami Springs Municipal Golf Course.
This book has everything the die-hard or casual golfer will need to locate and play the golf courses designed by the most prolific and successful golf course designer ever.
This book tells the inspirational stories of seven famous golfers who refused to let physical and emotional trials stop them from playing the game they love. The golfers include Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Charlie Sifford, Ken Venturi, and caddy Bruce Edwards.
This book is an invitation to travel with award-winning journalist John Steinbreder on a global golf trek. From putting alongside tawny wallabies and blue-tongued lizards in Tasmania to literary pub crawls in Dublin, this book contains remarkable golf adventures from Steinbreders nearly two decades of tee-time wanderlust.
To the Nines will introduce you to a whole new golfing experience by sharing the stories of nineteen nine-hole layouts across the country. This book will send you on a mission to discover the roots of the game and seek out your own unheralded courses. This new edition includes recent renovations and rebunkering of several of these classic "nines."
