“Golf Architecture for Normal People” by Geoff Shackelford

In Golf Architecture for Normal People, golf architecture expert Geoff 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
• 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
• Advises how to merge technology and common sense to decode deceptive design elements