Sports Golf

Do you have a favorite sport? Do you want to learn more about different kinds of sports? This series introduces beginning learners to the fun world of sports! Each book begins with a playful narrative, putting kids into the action. Grab your gear, and get ready for some sports fun! This volume includes Archery, Golf, Skiing, Snowboarding, Tennis, and Volleyball.

There are only 34 official rules of golf, but it takes more than 20,000 words to make them unintelligible enough so that most golfers cannot understand them properly...so this book doesn't even try. Instead, Golf Rules: How to NOT Win a Tournament lays out many of the ways that pro golfers and others have found to be the correct way to receive penalty strokes and/or get disqualified. Included are numerous bone-headed mistakes that golfers you'll recognize have made, plus humorous golf quotes, an index of the actual rules, and more.

Some people might say that, at age 46 Jane "Par" Parker is too old to win golf tournaments, too old to fear her mother, and too old, after twenty years, to still feel heavy grief over the murder of her father. But Par has an obsessively tight grip on the past, and no one can tell her to live her life otherwise. Par is maniacally driven to win a golf tournament she hasn't been able to win in ten years. Recent low-scoring rounds have strengthened her confidence....

Do you have what it takes to lay it all out on the line and be the smartest golfer in this game and take home the coveted Generational Golf Trivia Cup...If so, bring it! This is the ultimate golf trivia Q & A challenge that will test your complete knowledge of the game from beginners to experts with no fluff, no gimmicks, just golf trivia madness.

This inspiring collection of stories from professionals, caddies, and amateur golfers shares the memorable moments of the game, when, despite all odds, an impossible shot lands in the perfect position; when a simple game of golf becomes a lesson in life. Chapters include: sportsmanship, family, overcoming obstacles, perfecting the game and the nineteenth hole. This is a great read for any golfer, no matter what your handicap.

Golf resorts - it's a specialized niche for a savvy group that knows what it wants. What they want is golf, so the Nicols have devoted the audio to yardage and par, green fees, and special course features for hundreds of golf courses from Canada to Costa Rica. But there are other facets to consider as well, because the point here is to take a vacation, a golf vacation, where you get to luxuriate in your scenic vistas, eat your sumptuous meals, and play your 18 holes, too.

Sports Trivia Hero: Part Two has 107 questions of interesting trivia and fun facts on Hockey, Tennis, Golf, and Winter Olympic questions to keep you entertained. Enjoy this book on family fun night, game night, or a car ride, or use it to review before your local pub trivia night.

You're about to discover the incredibly inspirational story of golf superstar Rory McIlroy. If you're reading this, then you must be a Rory McIlroy fan, like so many others. As a fan, you must wonder how this man is so talented and want to know more about him. Rory is considered as one of the greatest golfers in the world, and it's been an honor to be able to watch him compete throughout his young career. This audiobook will reveal to you much about Rory's story and the many accomplishments throughout his career.

Rick Reilly hat Donald Trump über 30 Jahre beim Golfspiel beobachtet. Sein Buch über dessen Verhalten beim Sport ist ebenso witzig wie erhellend. Wie man Golf spielt entblößt, wer man ist. Der bekannte Sport-Journalist und Golf-Enthusiast Rick Reilly hat Donald Trump viele Jahre auf dem Golfplatz erlebt, und schildert in seinem Buch urkomisch die Raffinesse und Kaltschnäuzigkeit, mit der sich Trump beim Gentleman-Sport auf alle nur erdenklichen Weisen einen Vorteil zu verschaffen weiß. Wenn es etwas gibt, was in Trumps Welt auf keinen Fall passieren darf, dann eine Niederlage - und sei es beim Spiel mit Tiger Woods.

In 1957, Hogan partnered with Herbert Warren Wind, 'the dean of American golf writers' (New York Times), and illustrator Anthony Ravielli to capture his expertise from the peak of his career in a series of lessons. He believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break eighty. With the groundbreaking techniques Hogan reveals in this essential book, you can learn how to make your game work from tee to green, step by step and stroke by stroke.

Ralph Squirrels and his animal friends take up the game of golf and enjoy an enlightening experience on a real golf course learning some of the basics of golf etiquette in addition to some concepts of the mental approach to the game with truly magical results.

Step onto the fairway of personal growth with "Life Lessons Thru The Lens of Golf." This insightful audio book offers a unique blend of golf’s rich tradition and timeless wisdom to illuminate your path toward a more fulfilling and successful life. Delve into the world of golf through the eyes of its greatest champions and discover how their experiences on the green hold profound lessons for everyday living. You’ll uncover how the discipline, strategy, and mindset that defines golf can translate into powerful life strategies.

The 18 People I Hate Playing Golf With is a foul-mouthed, funny, and sometimes callous reckoning for those people who annoy all of us on Saturday mornings. Sprawling in scope but intimate in details, this book shrewdly takes us on the journey of a teenager’s deeply personal anecdotes relating death, divorce, drugs, lust, and existential hopelessness…to the game of golf.

As children, we learn that trying to put a square object in a round hole of the same size will never work. A piece of wrong shape and description just will not fit together, even if we try to force it. When we pause, and analyze what works, what does not work, and why, we begin to assemble the piece in perfect harmony. Anticipating that the same can be applied to human relationships, John sets out to track down and understand the secrets formula that only a few couples experience in life and reveals it within.

Former Golf Digest editor Don Wade has collected literally hundreds of anecdotes from some of the greatest names in the sport and delivers those stories in a series of captivating volumes. This particular collection assembles not only golf legends like Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Amy Alcott, Lee Trevino, and Jack Nicklaus, but other notables such as Bing Crosby and Jack Lemmon—not to mention Howard Hughes and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The swing in golf is one of the essentials of the game. With it you can play with accuracy and style. Without it you can be the laughing stock of the clubhouse, always coming last in games and tournaments.

In 2024, 90 years after Horton Smith became the first Masters champion, some of the biggest names in the world of golf once again converged upon the hallowed grounds of Augusta National, each fighting for the right to wear the green jacket. Step into the action like never before and join the field on their quest to become the next Masters champion.

Golf, like many other seemingly trivial activities, can be a great mirror of life, if we are willing to see our own reflection...This audiobook is meant to be a guide. It is an exploration of parallels between life and golf. It aims to bring awareness through the exploration of clear concepts that ask the listener to push and strive for mastery.

Don Wade has indeed proved himself to be golf's master storyteller. And now he returns once again with this truly delightful collection of real-life stories from and about the world's greatest golfers. And Then the Shark Told Justin... brings together past heroes like Ben Hogan and Sam Snead and living legends like Chi Chi Rodriguez and Jack Nicklaus with current stars of today like Tiger Woods and Nick Price.

Whether amateur or Tour professional, every golfer will experience that crucial moment when victory hinges on just one shot. Make it, they win; blow it and they will re-live the memory on the golf course for years to come. They have arrived at their personal moment of truth. The question is: can they handle it? The follow-up to his acclaimed Silent Mind Golf, this new book sees Robin Sieger explore the concept of choking and apply his easy-to-grasp mental conditioning techniques to help golfers at all levels perform under pressure.