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The Links | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Hunter
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 692569
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 196
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1886947511
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781886947511
ASIN: 1886947511
Publication Date: March 29, 1999
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Robert Hunter partnered with the legendary designer Alistair McKenzie on such classic courses as Cypress Point. The Links, first published in 1926, is his elegantly written paean to golf course design, and it remains a Fort Knox of golfing knowledge. Hunter explains and extols the glories of a good golf course, what makes that course good, the thinking that goes into individual holes to make them interesting, and, in the end, the wisdom that puts all of it together to create a fair test for the golfer. Understanding the hows and whys of the demonic challenges that designers subtly and not so subtly integrate into their layouts will certainly save an observant golfer a stroke or two. And high-handicappers who have heretofore communed with the game primarily through their ignorance can now get on the long cart path to enlightenment. --Jeff Silverman
Product Description
Students of golf course architecture are well aware of Robert Hunter — and it’s all because of The Links. This scholarly work was different from other architecture books of the day because Hunter was not a designer attempting to attract commissions through his writing. His goal — through the use of detailed drawings, contemporary photographs and thoughtful text — was not only to explain what made the classic holes so great but why they would stand the test of time. This exact reprint of The Linksbelongs in the libraries of all aficionados of golf course architecture.
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American architecture's bible December 29, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Written at the time so many books on golf architecture found their ways onto the shelves, this work focuses on explaining to a primarily American audience about the good and bad of what the author, Hunter, observed during his travels in England regarding golf design.
Much of what he discusses here is similarly presented elsewhere, such as abhoring purely penal design and glorifying anything that adds interest to the round. However, he goes beyond this by being freely critical of many revered courses, including St. Andrews, and trying to set lines down for what sound design is. This in itself is not bad, but his thinking seems to be centered on the toning down or elimination of the more extreme aspects of links golf.
In this respect, Hunter's is the first work of purely american architectural thought, and can be read as such. This aside, the main value of the work as an introcuction to the field is more than met.
A Good Gollf Book August 3, 2000
1 out of 27 found this review helpful
this boook shows how the great architects were good at designing stuff like golf courses 'n stuff like that
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