The Trivia Lovers' Guide To Golf [antikvár]

Mark Twain may have dismissed golf as 'a good walk spoiled', but millions of golfers the world over would surely take issue with the celebrated American writer. Golf may be the cause of a certain amount of frustration at times, as accounts in the pages that follow indicate; but it has also been a source of endless fascination for players and spectators since its early days, when Scotsmen (and certain notable Scots women as far back as the 16th century) perfected the art and guile of hitting a small ball into a far-off hole. Golf has many attractions, not the least of which being that it is a game enjoyed by players of almost any age -here you'll find the exploits of players aged under ten and approaching 100. Golf is also a game in which one simple action is honed and perfected to an art of sublime dexterity and infinite variety. Perhaps the truly amazing feature of the game is the manner in which the world's leading players have been, and are, able to sustain a level of supreme performance week in, week out, for year after year over a wide variety of courses and climatic conditions, as this book shows.