Golf: The Iconic Courses invites you to explore the world’s most spectacular and challenging golf courses, where history, beauty, and sport converge. From the ancient Swilcan Bridge at St Andrews to the dramatic 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass, this book takes you on a breathtaking tour of the places every golfer dreams of playing.
Whether it’s Augusta’s Amen Corner, Pebble Beach’s Pacific-kissed cliffs, or the perilous dunes of Carnoustie’s Barry Burn, each course is a masterpiece of design and nature. Discover the wild Irish landscapes, the lush jungles of Vietnam, and the rugged cliffs of Mexico’s Quivira, where the greens seem to defy gravity.
Featuring stunning photography from two of the world’s greatest golf photographers—David Cannon and aerial expert Gary Lisbon—Golf: The Iconic Courses captures the beauty, challenge, and spirit of the game like never before. This is more than a book; it’s an invitation to walk the fairways of legends.
A must-have for golf enthusiasts, this book is a visual celebration of the sport’s most revered real estate—destined to inspire every golfer to pack their clubs and tee off on a new adventure.
The aim of the photo coverage is to reveal new aspects of much-loved courses, using a combination of aerial and ground-based photography. Gary Lisbon and David Cannon are two of the world's leading golf photographers, with the skill and patience to record courses in spectacular light with late evening shadows cast across undulating fairways of links holes.The text gives a history of the course, its designer(s), the way it has changed over the years while indicating its most famous or challenging holes.