Legendary Golf Links of Ireland and Legendary Golf Clubs of the American East Provide Magnificent Views of Must-Play Venues
PEARL RIVER, NY – Mike Beckerich, publisher of Classics of Golf, announced that two sumptuous coffee-table books by award-winning American photographer Anthony Edgeworth and British author John de St. Jorre are now available on the Classics of Golf Website.
Both books measure 9×12 inches, total 360 pages and are printed on heavy coated stock in full color.
Legendary Golf Links of Ireland
Edgeworth and De St. Jorre present the grandeur (and the down-to-earth people) of 16 extraordinary clubs: Royal Portrush, Tralee, Waterville, County Louth, Dooks, County Sligo, Ballyliffin, The Island, Enniscrone, Portstewart, Lahinch, Donegal, Carne, Portmarnock, Ballbunion and Royal County Down.
What Critics Are Saying:
â?¢ "I have no hesitation in declaring this book to be Edgeworth’s and de St. Jorre’s noblest effort yet, worthy of comparison in all significant artistic qualities with Bernard Darwin’s and Harry Rountree’s Golf Courses of the British Isles, published almost a century ago, and equally entitled as that classic to space in any golf library that claims to be serious….Indispensable." –Michael M. Thomas, Travel & Leisure Golf
â?¢ "The photographs drew me into the pages and onto the grass—I can smell Ireland when I open it! Anthony has captured the chilly mists and warm swaths of biblical light that illuminate the Irish countryside, which make you feel that even though your game may have gone to hell, you are still playing in heaven."–David Feherty
â?¢ "It is a magnificent book, with superb photographs and a wonderful narrative, which combine so well to capture the essence of playing golf in Ireland." –Sir Michael Bonallack, former secretary and captain, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.
â?¢ "Photographer Anthony Edgeworth and writer John de St. Jorre have pulled off a great hat trick with their third and final golf book. Ireland has yet again provided wonderful writing and magnificent photographs and the authors have both done it proud." –Ian Wooldridge, golf columnist, The Daily Mail, London
In much golf photography, the missing ingredient is people. But Edgeworth, an award-winning editorial and advertising photographer, puts the golfers into the golf landscape. You see them, small figures bent over a putt or pulling "trolleys" up a gnarled hillside, maybe with wool cap pulled low, and their diminutive presence in the frame gives the overall scene a breathtaking sense of scale and conveys some of the excitement and pleasure of playing these storied links.
In addition to the monumental, Edgeworth presents the microcosms: closeups of the pubs, clubhouses, signs, sculpture, flora and fauna of the clubs and villages, as well as contextually rich portraits of the people who run the clubs, maintain the courses and play them on a daily basis.
De St. Jorre’s text is as rich in reportorial detail and color as the photos themselves.
Price: $100
Legendary Golf Clubs of the American East
A privileged view of 12 hallowed clubs: Seminole, The Country Club, Myopia Hunt Club, Oakmont, Merion, Pine Valley, Somerset Hills, Ekwanok, Yeamans Hall, Newport, Shinnecock and the National as only insiders see them.
"John de St. Jorre has brilliantly brought all these clubs to life," writes Bill Campbell, 1964 US Amateur champion and USGA past president, in his Preface. "His keen powers of observation and description have combined with his insight and literary talent to produce individual case studies, realistic and appealing, so that all these clubs will interest the reader, whether or not he has been there."
"Similarly, Tony Edgeworth’s sharp and discerning camera lens," Campbell observes, "has provided a compelling tableau of each club and its members, catching that club’s life and suggesting its intangibles."
Author Geoffrey Norman, in Forbes FYI, on the golf photography of Anthony Edgeworth:
"…There are real artists out there with the gifts to make the subtle and quixotic joys of golf palpable. Herbert Warren Wind and John Updike and David Owen, for instance, can do it in prose. Anthony Edgeworth…has the touch with photographs."
Price: $90
Authors’ Biographies
Anthony Edgeworth’s elegant photography has received many awards for excellence in a career of more than twenty five years. Pictures bearing his signature style have appeared in: Esquire, Town & Country, Fortune, Travel & Leisure, New York, Money, New York Times Magazine and Forbes FYI among others. He created advertising campaigns for a diverse client list that includes Mobil, deBeers, Citicorp, Ralph Lauren, Amtrak, and the U.S. Marine Corps. He has produced stunning photographs for nine books: The Guards (Crown); The Marines (EdgeworthEditions); Brandywine (Thomasson/Grant); The Institute (EdgeworthEditions); Legendary Golf Clubs of Scotland England Wales & Ireland (EdgeworthEditions); Legendary Golf Clubs of the American East (EdgeworthEditions); The Links (EdgeworthEditions) and The River Club (EdgeworthEditions). Anthony’s third golf book and end of the golf book trilogy, Legendary Golf Links of Ireland (EdgeworthEditions) was published June 2006. Born in Dover, Delaware, Mr. Edgeworth was educated at the Canterbury School and the University of Virginia and resides in Florida.
John de St. Jorre was educated at Oxford and served in the British Army in Malaya and the Foreign Service in Africa. Before turning freelance, he was the London Observer’s correspondent in Africa, Paris, the Middle East, and New York. His previous books include seven with Anthony Edgeworth: The Guards, The Marines, Legendary Golf Clubs of Scotland England Wales & Ireland, Legendary Golf Clubs of the American East, The Links, Legendary Golf Links of Ireland and The River Club. His other works are The Brother’s War: Biafra and Nigeria; A House Divided: South Africa’s Uncertain Future; the novel The Patriot Game; The Insiders Guide to Spain; and Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyages of the Olympia Press and its Writers. Mr. de St. Jorre resides in Mallorca, Spain and in Rhode Island.
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