Bargain Golf Books

[David_Tepper]

www.bookcloseouts.com remains one of the best sources for overstocks and remaindered golf books I have come across. They usually have 200-300 different golf books available at prices 50%-80% off list.

While most of the books are instructional, biographies or in some way about Tiger, Hogan and/or the Masters, there are some titles currently in stock that might have GCA interest:

Bernard Darwin on Golf
Golf Digest Classic American Courses
Golf, As It Was In the Beginning (M. Fay)
The World's Greatest Golf Coruses (B. Weeks)
1000 Best Courses in Britain & Ireland
Nicklaus By Design (J. Nicklaus)
Grounds For Golf (G. Shackleford)
All Courses Great and Small (J. Finegan)
Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas (J. Finegan)
Bury Me In A Pot Bunker (P. Dye)
The Spirit of St. Andrews (Jones & Mackenzie)
Two Years in St. Andrews (G. Peper)
To The Linksland (M. Bamberger)    

P.S. I have absolutely no financial interest in the website referenced above. This information is strictly for your benefit.

[ed_getka]

David,
    Thanks for the link. I will have to take a look there occasionally. Any thoughts on the Peper book about St Andrews?

[Willie_Dow]

David - I loved your library at Dornach !  Thanks for all !!

[Ally Mcintosh]

thanks david...

...as an aside, i just yesterday received a present of "golf architecture (1920) by mackenzie"...

...i was of the opinion that this was quite rare so i went searching the net this morning and found it readily available with other such classics as "the architectural side of golf (1929) by wethered and simpson"...

...have all the old classics been reprinted or was i just picking it up wrong and they've always been available?

[Tyler Kearns]

...have all the old classics been reprinted or was i just picking it up wrong and they've always been available?

Ally,

Many of the great classic golf books (architecture, instruction etc.) have been reprinted, namely through Classic of Golf, thus making them readily accessible to the average reader.

TK

[JohnV]

David,
    Thanks for the link. I will have to take a look there occasionally. Any thoughts on the Peper book about St Andrews?

My girlfriend got me Peper's book.  It is a lot of fun.  I recall reading it straight through which is rare for me as I usually have 4 or 5 books going at one time.  It made me want to go buy a house there.

Not quite as good as A Season in Dornoch , but close to it in my opinion.

[David_Tepper]

Ed G. -

I have not read the G. Peper book, although I have enjoyed his columns about living in St. Andrews in LINKS magazine.

I did buy & read Curtis Gillespie's "Playing Through," about the year he spent living in Gullane. It was OK.

My two favorite books of this genre are "A Season In Dornoch" and "To The Linksland."  

DT

[Ken Moum]

FWIW, another sometimes fertile source of golf books on sale is http://www.hamiltonbook.com.

(Drat!!! I just went there to check the address, and there are a couple I need to buy.)

FWIW, Wexler's "Book of Golfers" is on sale for $12.95

Ken

[Ally Mcintosh]

...have all the old classics been reprinted or was i just picking it up wrong and they've always been available?

Ally,

Many of the great classic golf books (architecture, instruction etc.) have been reprinted, namely through Classic of Golf, thus making them readily accessible to the average reader.

TK

thanks tyler... classics of golf... that's indeed what i was looking at...

[ed_getka]

Ken,
   Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of that one.