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Links Courses Book.

  • 03-09-2012 12:50am
    #1
    FixdePitchmark
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    Lads,

    Any ideas for a gift to a friend. He is coming over to play Irish and Scottish links from USA. Is there a good coffee table book for about 100 euro or less.

    Plenty of photos. Just Links courses.


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  • #2
    ThunderCat
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    Try a book called "True Links" by Pepper and Cambell I think it is. Best golf book I own. Stunning images of only links courses with a description of each with more attention being paid to the more famous courses, but unless im mistaken it does document each links course on earth. It also goes into great detail about what constitutes a links course and also dismisses certain courses as non-links and explains why. I can't recommend it highly enough. I think i paid 50 for it by the way in a book shop in the Omni Centre, Santry. Might get it cheaper online.


  • #3
    Kevinmarkham
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    Good call on 'True Links'.

    There's also: Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland, by James Finegan

    Harder to get is: Emerald Gems:The Links of Ireland by Lambrecht

    Another one came out last year but I can't recall what it's called at the moment - definitely a 'coffee table' tome though.


  • #4
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,185 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Kevinmarkham wrote: »
    Good call on 'True Links'.

    There's also: Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland, by James Finegan

    Harder to get is: Emerald Gems:The Links of Ireland by Lambrecht

    Another one came out last year but I can't recall what it's called at the moment - definitely a 'coffee table' tome though.

    Thanks lads,

    will try buy it online in America, posting that stuff would be crazy money.


  • #5
    The_Architect
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    FixdePitchmark wrote: »

    Thanks lads,

    will try buy it online in America, posting that stuff would be crazy money.

    I like Finegan's book. Not actually a huge fan of Peper & Campbell's one - too coffee table.

    This one is excellent: Another Journey Through The Links by David Worley.

    The absolute best is only available second hand and has more content than coffee table pictures (althoughit has plenty of the latter, just from 20 years ago). It is Donald Steel's "Classic courses of Great Britain & Ireland"


  • #6
    FixdePitchmark
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    Lads did not know it was should a connoisseur topic.

    Will look them all up, could end up keeping a copy. :D

    Thanks again - just the table now.


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