Geoff Shackelford has done the thing he may do better than anyone else — shake a stick, loudly, at those who would change a great golf course without serious consideration for preservation and restoration. His new book, Lines of Charm, is yet another celebration of the Golden Age of golf and the master architects who rendered our most revered courses.
In Lines of Charm, Shackelford has prepared short essays on some of his favorite golf architecture topics including: The Old Cause at St. Andrews; Planning and Construction; Links Golf; How the Game Torments the Adventurous Soul; Hazards; Greens and Approaches and much more. He includes some of the best material written by and about the legendary characters who designed golf’s early playing fields. According to Shackelford, "Lines of Charm is here to remind us how fortunate golf was to have so many rich, imaginative, and humorous minds breathing life into the early golf landscape."
Shackelford has also compiled an interesting collection of drawings, design sketches, and writings from Alister MacKenzie, A.W. Tillinghast, Donald Ross, Max Behr, C.B. MacDonald and many more, which are intriguing for the well-schooled and armchair architect alike. Sports Media Group produced the book in the perfect gift-book format. It boasts unique design features, attractive reproduction of vintage material, and a comfortable price-point at $19.95.
Lines of Charm hits the bookstores nationally in November.
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Kimberly Pashko
Sports Media Group
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