I’ll start this review with a few caveats – firstly this is not a golf book. It is a series of quarterly golfing publications that arrive every season. Secondly, it’s certainly not a magazine. That would be a complete insult to the work Golfers Journal do and the quality of the journals themselves, or perhaps an undeserved compliment for the glossy magazines that are littered with adverts for swing training aids, discounted green fee’s at overpriced corporate golfing locations and articles written by people who think The Belfry is the finest example of inland golf in the UK. Finally, I must confess I did not initially purchase The Golfers Journal for the quality of their articles (although I had heard they were fantastic). I purchased the back catalogue and took a year’s subscription with them for the artwork (how shallow of me…I know!). They not only look absolutely stunning [...]

I first came across this book by chance on Twitter, and quite quickly pulled the trigger on Amazon, and it’s become a firm favourite on the bookshelf. Tony’s Twitter profile states he is an Englishman in the US, and this book is a great account of golf across both sides of the Atlantic. Tony also writes for the links magazine as well as Golf World, making the book a very easy read, broken into small bitesize chapters. This is a beautiful narration of the holes and courses that have shaped the game of golf throughout time, from where it all began at places, St Andrews Prestwick and Rathbo Farm (google it), through the golden age designs, products of post war architecture such as Torrey Pines and The Belfry, and into the new age designs like Bandon Dunes. This is superbly researched, and walks the fine line, balancing between course [...]