About this title: There's no question that Dr Alister MacKenzie was one of the best golf course architects in the history of the game. Augusta National, Royal Melbourne, Cypress Point among many other famous layouts are proof of that fact. In the mid-1990s, MacKenzie's lost golf manuscript, written a year before his death in 1933, was found and finally published as "The Spirit of St Andrews". Even all these years later, MacKenzie's thoughts on such topics as the golf swing, rules, great courses and holes, and golfers are interesting and intuitive.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781886947009ISBN:1886947007
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Description: Very Good+ No Jacket Issued. Foreword by Bobby Jones. This is a very clean & very bright soft cover trade paperback book on St. Andrews. The conditon is Very Good+. Reprint Edition, c1998. This book is very solid and also very tight. The spine is nice and smooth & straight. The pages are white & bright and also unmarked, no names Looks like an interesting read! 268 pages including illustrations. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781886947009ISBN:1886947007
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Very fine book in near mint condition. I did not see any writing or marks in book. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 268 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Number Line 10987654321
Binding: Green Lettered Cloth
Publisher: Clock Tower Pr, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781886947009ISBN:1886947007
Description: Very Good Plus in Very Good Not Clipped No Price jacket. 9 1/4 X 6 1/4. Pages are tight, bright and clean. Jacket in a crystal-clear polyester protector sleeve. Binding straight and firm, sewn signatures. Boards, spine, edges and corners unworn. 268 pages. B/W photos, endpapers illustrate. read more
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Pictorial endpapers. Very-nicely illustrated throughout. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Previous owner's name label (small) in book front. 269 pages. Synopsis There's no question that Dr. Alister MacKenzie was one of the best golf course architects in the history of the game. Augusta ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date Published: 1995-04-01
ISBN-13:9781886947009ISBN:1886947007
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781886947009ISBN:1886947007
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781886947009ISBN:1886947007
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 268 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781886947009ISBN:1886947007
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 268 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book is in good condition. Clean pages and covers. Tight bindings. 1109DL read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780767901697ISBN:076790169X
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"MacKenzie is considered among the legends of golf course architecture. He designed Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne, Augusta National,and has advised in the construction or maintenance of most of the great seaside links courses in the UK.
The Spirit of St. Andrews is a found manuscript with MacKenzie's notes on numerous topics related to archeticture, golf and golfers.
Throughout the book he continuously returns to the idea the the world's first course remains the finest course in the world. Nowhere else is the golfer challenged by such strategic dilemnas as at St. Andrews.
His views on architecture strongly support his belief that golf is a game that should be accessible to all. Challenges found on a golf course should require stategic decisions by both the scratch and the "long handicapper." Golfers who appreciate the challenge of true seaside links will find his views reassuring, while those who long for perfectly manicured courses will find it ridiculous.
I would recommend that the reader of this book have access to photos of the courses referenced(although they have all probably made some changes since he wrote manuscript prior to WWII).This is actually quite easy now that most courses include excellent photo galleries on their websites."
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