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Michael Whitaker

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"Solving the paradox of proportionality is the heart of golf architecture."  - Tom Doak (11/20/05)

Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 08:01:25 PM »
Great Value, Finnigans books are great

Rob Rigg

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 08:16:19 PM »
They have his Scotland book in there as well . . . might be $5.99 though

Mark Pritchett

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 08:50:23 PM »
I bought the England/Wales version and Ireland hardbacks as from bookcloseouts.com a while back and enjoyed them very much.  Super deals on that site!

Dónal Ó Ceallaigh

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 02:50:26 AM »
I'm not sure why, but I was able to get it on the Amazon UK site recently for £0.01 :o

Although I'm from Ireland, I still enjoyed it immensely and thought it was a great read. If he ever decides to update it, hopefully he'll include Belvoir Park, a Colt design (his one glaring omission) and maybe lay-off a bit on the guest house/menu descriptions.

I'm looking forward to reading his others on Scotland, England and Wales.

Andrew Mitchell

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2014 to date: not actually played anywhere yet!
Still to come: Hollins Hall; Ripon City; Shipley; Perranporth; St Enodoc

Tony_Muldoon

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2010, 05:03:04 PM »
Question for the UK guys have you ever heard of Finegan outside of GCA?  I've mentioned him to a few people who've heard of Doak, Darwin, Steel etc and drwan a blank each time. 

I leant out my copy so I'm off to Amazon now.
Let's make GCA grate again!

Sean_A

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2010, 05:29:55 PM »
Question for the UK guys have you ever heard of Finegan outside of GCA?  I've mentioned him to a few people who've heard of Doak, Darwin, Steel etc and drwan a blank each time. 

I leant out my copy so I'm off to Amazon now.

Tony

Probably not.  I stumbled on his Scottish book likely the same year it was published.  This was back when Borders in Ann Arbor (which was then the flagship store) used to carry an unbelievable collection of golf books - likely due to Clock Tower Press and its later iterations.  If I recall, it was the only travel book without pix and this was its main appeal.  I figured the guy could write if he didn't include pix.

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Dónal Ó Ceallaigh

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2010, 06:15:16 PM »
Tony:

Never heard of the guy before I signed up to GCA.com. I think I first read about him on a thread posted sometime during the autumn; something about an incident he had at Rye with two old ladies.

Dónal.

Andrew Mitchell

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Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2010, 05:55:09 AM »
Question for the UK guys have you ever heard of Finegan outside of GCA?  I've mentioned him to a few people who've heard of Doak, Darwin, Steel etc and drwan a blank each time. 

I leant out my copy so I'm off to Amazon now.

No, I'd never heard of him before joining this site and I've never spoken to anyone outside of this site who knew who he was.
2014 to date: not actually played anywhere yet!
Still to come: Hollins Hall; Ripon City; Shipley; Perranporth; St Enodoc

Jamie Barber

Re: Emerald Fairways & Foam Flecked Seas Only $1.99 !!!
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2010, 06:50:52 AM »
I hadn't heard of him before this thread:) but just bought his England & Wales book from Amazon (£2.65 delivered)