Classics of Golf publisher, Mike Beckerich, announced that they are engaged with Erin Hills Golf Club to publish a beautiful coffee table book that showcases the stunning golf course that will host the 2017 U.S. Open Golf Championship. Opened in 2006, the course has also hosted the 2011U.S. Amateur Championship and 2008 U.S. Women’s Public Links Championship.
“Twenty thousand years before the first golf shot was struck on the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland, and half a world away, geologic forces of incomprehensible size and scope were slowly and inexorably shaping the land that would become Erin Hills Golf Course.” -from Chapter One
Written, by Gary D’Amato the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel golf writer, author of six previous books, and member of the Golf Writers Association of America Board of Directors, the book reveals the fascinating and captivating story of this spectacular property golf course that many golf course architects and developers coveted.
Photography for the book is done by Paul Hundley, who has North America’s most dramatic golf course photography. Hundley started photographing the golf course years before it was developed and captures not only the spectacular prairie beauty of Erin Hills-it also follows all of the changes on its way to hosting the U.S. Open.
Erin Hills Golf Course, designed by Dr. Michael J. Hurdzan, Dana Fry and Ron Whitten, has risen to #8 as America’s Best Public Golf Course according to Golf Digest. The book will also include a number of sketches and drawings from the architects.
USGA’s Executive Director Mike Davis praised the course by saying,” From a championship standpoint, Erin Hills is truly one of the most fabulous sites I’ve ever seen.” The 2017 U.S. Open will be the first for the state of Wisconsin.
Classics of Golf, was started by Herbert Warren Wind, Dean of American Sportwriters, and Robert S. Macdonald, noted golf historian, was created to be a premiere publisher of golf books. Erin Hills book is another stunning addition to their collection of books that includes many of the greats in golf; Nicklaus, Jones, Palmer, Sarazen, Hagen, Darwin and many others.
Copies of the book can be reserved at www.classicsofgolf.com for a pre-publication price of $45.00. Corporate inquiries for special editions should be directed to Executive Director Brian Lewis at brian@classicsofgolf.com or 231-218-0390
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