Masters of Design: The Golf Courses of Colt, Mackenzie, Alison and Morrison
UK £40.00,Canada $80.00,
UK Publication November 2009
ISBN 9781848310902
Hardback
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A lavish, full-colour essential addition to any golfer's coffee table, capturing the timeless spirit of the game through its greatest-ever course designers, from the authors of Creating Classics.
In the world of golf, just as certain courses have achieved iconic status - Pine Valley, Augusta National, Huntingdale, Princes - so are their respective creators, Harry Colt, Alister MacKenzie, CH Alison and JF Morrison equally revered.
Masters of Design pays homage to these four great sculptors of the land, blending lively anecdotes and atmospheric history with spectacular photographs that evoke glories of playing the fairways of many of the world's finest golf courses.
From the dramatic sea-scoured headlands of Cypress Point in California to the tranquility of Japan's Hirona Club, this book displays golf's internationally renowned venues alongside unsung courses of subtlety and beauty. Furthermore, each of these design masterpieces reveals fascinating stories about their architects that will enlighten all golfers about an extraordinary legacy left to the game.
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Peter Pugh was educated at Oundle and Cambridge where, as a member of the University golf team, he played on many of the Colt-designed courses featured in Creating Classics. He was also a member for many years of three of them - Royal Lytham & St Annes, Royal Worlington & Newmarket and Woodhall Spa. He has written over 50 books about companies, hotels and clubs, including a recently published history celebrating the centenary of Stoke Park Club whose golf course was also laid out by Harry Colt.See more books by: Peter Pugh
