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Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland

Every golfer who?s worth his favorite putter knows where golf is great: Scotland, birthplace of the game and still its most important shrine, from the splendor of St. Andrews to the regal resort at Gleneagles; and Ireland, where the links like Ballybunion and Royal County Down are of unsurpassed beauty and challenge. Whether golfers actually make the pilgrimage or arm-chair it, Where Golf Is Great is indispensable: the most luxurious, entertaining, informative, and exhaustive book on these most important destinations. Written by the bard of Scottish and Irish golf, it combines the most authoritative information with the most beautiful prose and the most stunning color photographs?an unsurpassed celebration of the places where golf is, indeed, great.

Not only is the golf great, but so are the sights, the dining, the lodging?and it?s all here: the pub lunches and three-star dinners; the country-house hotels and full-service resorts. Jim Finegan?s singularly insightful advice includes the very best play-and-stay combinations for once-in-a-lifetime perfect golf days, in this once-in-a-lifetime perfect golf book.
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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Mar-08-2009

A beautiful coffee table book for golf lovers

I bought this for my husband as a gift and he loves it. It has beautiful pictures and any golf lover will be impressed by the photos. Be warned- this book will make you start planning your next golf trip very soon.

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  • Posted: Feb-27-2008

Will Rogers introduction to links golf

I do own this book.I love links golf as much as anyone, but Jim Finnegan is like Will Rogers, he never met a golf course he could criticize. Larry Lambrecht's photographs are spectacular and many of the recommendations for lodging and outside activities are only safe at best. This is a fine and...

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  • Posted: Jan-10-2008

Gorgeous but a wee bit tame...

As a Scot who has played most of the courses Jim Finegan has reviewed in this and his previous books, there's very little to dispute, and the pictures do convey the wonderful beauty of many of them, especially Machrie, Boat of Garten and others. However he seems to have toned down the criticisms...

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  • Posted: Apr-12-2007

Beautiful Greens

If you're planning a golf trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland, check out the courses in this book. Full-color photographs will whet your appetite before you go.

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  • Posted: Feb-19-2007

Outstanding Work

The photographs alone make this book a bargain. All the right courses are featured along with considerable coverage of those lesser known. For anyone considering a golf excursion to Ireland or Scotland this book will show you which courses to play and help with your planning. My thanks to Mr....

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  • Posted: Feb-19-2007

Great Pictures

Mr. Finegan has produced another in his very successful series of books about the pleasures offered by the golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland. The text is of the same high quality as the photographs by Messrs. Lambrecht and Thompson. The result is an elegant book which stimulates happy...

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  • Posted: Feb-19-2007

Outstanding Work !

In the world's "Top 100 of golf books" this is, for me, alone at #1. We are planning our fourth trip to Ireland/Scotland (3 to Ireland, the next to Scotland) and have used this book as a starting point for each. We have found Mr. Finegan to be most accurate in his assessments of the courses...

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  • Posted: Feb-07-2007

Where Golf is Great

Very good coffee table book with numerous large photographs of the great golf courses of Scotland and Ireland, many of which are unique. Instead of using existing very recognizable stock photos, the author has composed photos of well known holes from some very interesting perspectives - that...

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  • Posted: Jan-19-2007

Golf is great

Golf is truly great and this book show you how beautiful golfcources can be by the most georgeous pictures I have ever seen. The book is huge and heavy, but the best cources in Scotland/Irland are mentioned. The reason for not getting 5 stars is that such a huge book should really have covered...

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  • Posted: Jan-18-2007

Where Golf is Great: Make your Step-day happy

I bought this book as a Christmas present for my step-day. He loves to golf and has been wanting to explore Scotland and Ireland for as long as I can remember. The book is hefty and the pictures are glorious so you feel like it's an attainable destination. I hope it inspires him to go.

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