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A Zen Approach To
Playing Golf In
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James C. Plowden-Wardlaw

James Campbell Plowden-Wardlaw hit his first golf ball into the gorse bushes at Old Prestwick -- the cradle of championship golf and site of the first British Open -- at the age of nine, during a family visit to a great aunt in Ayr, Scotland. He returned home to America impressed by the game, but waited more than fifty years to play again in Scotland...(More...)

Alex B. Pagel

Alex B. Pagel dubbed his first shot at the Maidstone Club course on Long Island in the 1940s under the Scottish eye of the club professional Jack Ross. This legendary man endeavored to teach him how to hit a ball, never a total success, and how to enjoy the game, by contrast a long and continuing success story. Old Jack also frequently implied that the true object of the game was to play in Scotland on a links course in the wind...(More...)

 

 
 
 

 

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An ideal gift for every player, client or friend on your holiday gift list!
Yours for less than most green fees, there has never been a golfer's book quite like this one. 
 
About 'Birdie'

Birdie recounts the personal golfing pilgrimages of its authors through Scotland.  It shows, using color photographs, how and where they discover the original spirit of golf, and explains why the Scottish links have been so irresistibly seductive to players for hundreds of years. 
 
This book is about developing an attitude
Birdie reinvents the whole concept of the modern game (as played outside the United Kingdom) for all golfers, and including players past their best days and hesitant beginners of all ages. It recounts what it feels like to swing a golf club in the unique atmosphere of The Holy Land of Golf.
  • Book: 150 pages with 92 color photographs and graphics 
  • Book size: 7" by 9". Print size: 14. 
  • Text: Full four color process. 
  • Cover stock: 90lb white gloss laminate.
  • Paper stock: 80lb white coated paper.
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