Book Review: “RAINMAKER” by Hughes Norton & George Peper

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RAINMAKER: Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money-Grab Explosion of Golf, from Tiger Woods to LIV and Beyond is one of those books that had to be written. Libraries, stores, and stalls are full of volumes that entertain, inform, educate, cure, encourage, comfort, instruct, empower, and generally make the world a better place, but not all […]

12 Great Golf Reads This Christmas

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From absorbing and educational to sentimental and hilarious, here’s a dozen great golf books for Christmas and beyond. Two Ruddy Ducks and a Partridge on a Par Three Clive Agran This 160-page paperback might be an inexpensive stocking filler, but it could turn out to be the highlight of your Christmas. Agran has a very […]

10 Best Golf Books Written in 2022

Many of the golf courses built in the last 15 years have been so good, a lot of commentators regard this current period of creativity as golf course architecture’s second Golden Age. I can’t be the only one that has noticed that as the courses have gotten better so, apparently, has the writing. History gave […]

15 Great Golf Books of the 21st Century

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When I was assigned the task of listing “15 Important Golf Books of the 21st Century,” I could have simply reproduced the roster of winners of the USGA’s Herbert Warren Wind Award or identified some of Amazon’s bestsellers. But while all of them were no doubt worthy, I felt there were a number of books […]