Golf's Finest Par Threes: The Art and Science of the One-Shot Hole

(Hardback)

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Golfers wanting to know the colourful stories behind names like Alcatraz, Biarritz, Cleopatra, Dell, Eden, Postage Stamp and Redan can now turn to the only book ever devoted exclusively to the par three hole. In Golf's Finest Par Threes, Roberts and Bartlett have assembled an exemplary collection of the most spectacular, historic, challenging and unusual one-shot holes on the planet. The heart of the book is the authors' list of the 100 greatest par threes in the world, chosen from thousands they've seen during 30 years of profiling and photographing golf courses.

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""Golf's Finest Par Threes" provides a stunning written and pictorial account that golf fans can turn to time and again." --Robert Thompson, senior writer, "ScoreGolf Magazine"

"A glorious marriage of photography and narrative that will flatter any coffee table. A book to be enjoyed over and over." --Nick Seitz, editor at large, "Golf Digest"

"I'm absolutely smitten with this thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated testament to the game's most compelling one-shotters. . . the next best thing to playing these holes is having them collected in this book. Bravo!" --Joe Passov, senior travel editor, "Golf "magazine

"Thank heaven for little three-pars. And for this book." --Bradley S. Klein, "Golfweek Magazine"

"The great one-shotters in golf finally get their due thanks to Tony Robert's images and Michael Bartlett's insightful but concise text." --Geoff Shackelford, golf architect and author, "The Future of Golf"

"Tony Roberts and Michael Bartlett have seen and played many of the most enchanting and thrilling par threes, and they present them in ways that will make you want to read and re-read the text while savoring the photographs time and time again." --Lorne Rubenstein, author, "This Round's On Me"

"We now have in one beautifully produced volume the story of the par three -- its invention and evolution -- and a handsomely presented and well-considered selection of the best of them." --Al Barkow, golf historian, former editor of "Golf "magazine

Author Bio

Tony Roberts is a photographer who has contributed photos to every major golf magazine. He was the 1987 recipient of the USGAs Book of the Year Award for his photographs in Golfs Magnificent Challenge. Michael Bartlett is a freelance writer and journalism teacher. He is the author of Bartletts World Golf Encyclopedia and The Golfers Almanac and was the editor for the magazines Golf, Golf Canada, and Golf Journal. They both live in Scottsdale, Arizona. Acknowledged as the deans of American architects, Pete and Alice Dye have teamed together for fifty years to create some of the world's most challenging and highly praised golf courses. Their ability to combine the unpredictability of nature with stunning imaginative concepts makes them unique as designers and an inspiration for course architects everywhere.