The Illustrated History of Women's Golf
Author: Rhonda Glenn
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of women's golf featuring the remarkable women who have played it.
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Illustrated History Women Gol
Author: Rhonda Glenn
Publisher:
Published: 1991-10-01
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780878330560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated History of Women: Depression and war, 1930-1959
Author: Irene M. Franck
Publisher: Grolier
Published: 1998-09-01
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13: 9780717292639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of women around the world from earliest times to the present day.
Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History
Author: Bill Fields
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0803255268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a long, award-winning career writing about golf, Bill Fields has sought out the most interesting stories—not just those featuring big winners and losers, but the ones that get at the very character of the game. Collected here, his pieces offer an intriguing portrait of golf over the past century. The legends are here in vivid profiles of such familiar figures as Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Mickey Wright, and Tiger Woods. But so are lesser-known golfers like John Schlee, Billy Joe Patton, and Bert Yancey, whose tales are no less compelling. The book is filled with colorful moments and perceptive observations about golf greats ranging from the first American-born U.S. Open champion, Johnny McDermott, to Seve Ballesteros, the Spaniard who led Europe’s resurgence in the game in the late twentieth century. Fields gives us golf writing at its finest, capturing the game’s larger dramas and finer details, its personalities and its enduring appeal.
Historical Dictionary of Golf
Author: Bill Mallon
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-01-21
Total Pages: 865
ISBN-13: 0810874652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGolf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf being played in the low countries of Europe back in the 13th century. Over the many centuries of golf's evolution, the balls used have changed greatly, as have the clubs, the holes, the courses, and the entire game itself. The Historical Dictionary of Golf presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photos, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on places, teams, terminology, and people, including Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sörenstam, Lorena Ochoa, Phil Mickelson, and, of course, Tiger Woods. Appendixes of the members of the World Golf Hall of Fame, the Major Championships of Golf, the International Team Events, and the Professional Tour Awards are also included.
Women in Golf
Author: David L. Hudson Jr.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-11-30
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0275997855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the thirst for more information about women's golf, very little exists about its history outside of books about the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Hudson fills this void, offering a complete history of women in golf. He focuses on the fascinating development of women's golf, the creation of the women's tour, star athletes of the past, the astronomical rise of the present-day tour greats, and the future of the sport. Golf may well have replaced baseball as America's pastime, and the sport enjoys incredible popularity across the globe. At the professional level, women's golf continues to escalate in popularity and media attention, particularly with the dominance of LPGA champion Annika Sorenstam and the interest surrounding teenage phenom Michelle Wie. Despite the thirst for more information about women's golf, very little exists about its history outside of books about the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Hudson's new book fills this void, focusing on the fascinating development of women's golf, the creation of the women's tour, star athletes of the past, and the astronomical rise of the present-day tour greats. In addition, Hudson examines women's golf in the context of the country's history of discrimination against women. Women's golf grew in popularity after the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, granting the right of suffrage. Unfortunately, gender discrimination remains a reality in the world of golf in certain locales of country club golf. Nonetheless, women's golf has never been more popular. For example, the Futures Tour, where girls and young women hone their skills on the way to the LPGA, has grown to more than 300 players from 27 countries, making it the largest international developmental tour in the world. And the 2006 LPGA Tour featured 34 events with prize money nearing $50 million, the highest ever in LPGA history. In 1890, Hudson writes, the Washington Post reported that some girls are anxious to learn golf, because they are really fond of sport and exercise; others, because it gives them a chance to show off a natty suit. Those girls are now acknowledged as women—and this book shows how very far they, and their sport, have come.
Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia
Author: Steven A. Riess
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 1204
ISBN-13: 1317459474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as legal and social issues, economic factors, ethnic and racial participation, and the growth of institutions and venues. Also included are biographical entries on notable individuals—not just outstanding athletes, but owners and promoters, journalists and broadcasters, and innovators of other kinds—along with in-depth entries on the history of major and minor sports from air racing and archery to wrestling and yachting. A detailed chronology, master bibliography, and directory of institutions, organizations, and governing bodies—plus more than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs—round out the coverage.
Cain's Book
Author: Alexander Trocchi
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2006-10
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780802142757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBamberger's acclaimed, intimate profiles of stars such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and John Daly, combined with stories of the behind-the-scenes people who make the game what it is will remind golfers why they love the game.
Golf in America
Author: George B. Kirsch
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0252032926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inclusive narrative of golf's history and popularity in the United States
African Americans in Sports
Author: David K. Wiggins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 1137
ISBN-13: 131747743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entries cover all professional, amateur, and college sports such as baseball, tennis, and golf.
