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Our Golf Books feature is a roundup of recently released golf titles spearheaded by Bookreporter.com’s resident expert, Stuart Shiffman. He remarks that while you can only play golf during normal daylight hours in reasonable weather, you can read about the game far into the evening…and even during rainstorms and sub-zero temperatures. Stuart's passion for reviewing and discussing golf coffee table books, instructional books, historical books, memoirs and biographies will fuel any enthusiast's fire.

Summer Golf Reading for 2011

These are not the best of times in the world of golf. Professional golf’s golden boy, Tiger Woods, has fallen upon hard times. Beset by revelations that have destroyed his image as an “all-American family man” and, perhaps more importantly, repeatedly disabled by serious physical injury, Woods is simply no longer the driving force of professional golf. It has been more than a year since his last professional tournament victory and now three years since his last major championship, the U.S. Open of 2008. 

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Summer Golf Reading for 2010

The ancient Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” is significant these days in the world of professional golf. Late last year, the personal trials and tribulations of Tiger Woods became daily fodder for extensive media coverage, from newspapers to Internet gossip and various sources in between. Tiger has dominated the sport since 1996, having been the number-one ranked golfer for the most consecutive weeks in golf history and the Player of the Year 10 times. He has won 14 major championships, threatening the career record of 18 such victories currently held by Jack Nicklaus, and on several occasions has won these majors by double-digit margins.

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Summer Golf Reading for 2009

Sunday, June 21st marks not only Father’s Day, but also the final round of the United States Open, the second major golf championship of the year. This year’s Open returns to Bethpage Black, one of the nation’s most famous and difficult public courses. In 2002, the course underwent substantial redesign and renovation in anticipation of the Open. Tiger Woods emerged victorious, and he returns to the New York course this year having won not only at Bethpage, but also at Torrey Pines in California last year. Father’s Day, the U.S.

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