Product Description
As new condition forest green linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket.
Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page entitled The Road Hole by Michael Bonallack, Captain, Royal & Ancient Golf Club; Acknowledgments; Introduction by William C.
Campbell; The Penultimate Hole in Golf - The Road Hole at St.
Andrews; The Road Hole Bibliography and Photo Credits.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and black-and-white drawings.
Signed and inscribed by the author, Sidney L.
Matthew, with blue pen on the full title page.
"There is no more special and sacred golfing ground in the world than the Old Course at St.
Andrews.
Never before or since has such a perfect balance of sporting antiquity and eternity been joined together in 18 holes, and the jewel in this crown must surely be the 17th, dubbed The Road Hole.
The rason d'etre for this truth is an astonishing fact.
Perhaps a greater number of important grand golfing matches and major championships have turned on The Road Hole than any other single hole in the world.
Indeed, every storied golf hero in history, save one named Hogan, has negotiated the adventurous band and braes of The Road Hole.
The fortunes of Open Champions including Hutchinson, Lema, Snead, Nagel, Ballesteros, and Nicklaus, to name a few, rode the crest of superlative performances to victory at The Road Hole.
In contrast, the puzzle of The Road Hole figured crucially in the disappointing losses of champions Palmer, Watson, Hagen and Cotton.
This book traces the evolution of The Road Hole.
It chronicles the earliest days when The Road Hole was the first hole on the original left-hand course, the history of The Road, The Golfers Bridge, The Road Bunker and The Stationmaster's House and Garden now occupied by The Old Course Hotel.
This rich history is supplemented by a score of Wry Stories on the Road Hole including "Winning Stroke With a Frying Pan", "Robbed by the Road Hole", "That Greedy Little Bunker", "The Sands of Nakajima" and "The Greatest Shot that Never Mattered".
The reader is invited to share in the jubilation of the conquerors who mastered the challenges presented by The Road Hole, and also to crease a smile with those who have suffered like dogged victims of an inexorable fate from the treacherous features fashioned by God and man.
Never before has a single golf book been dedicated to a single golf hole.
But, never before has a single golf hole justified it.
"The Road Hole," like this book, is one of a kind.
" - from the inner front jacket flap.
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