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''The World Atlas of Golf: The Greatest Courses and How They Are Played'' is a
golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
reference book. First released in 1976, it was reprinted in 1988, 1991, 1998, 2003, and 2008. The book describes 75 course with illustrations, history,
architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
, and the special nature of some of the
holes A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful for various purposes, or may represent a problem needing to be addressed in many fields of en ...
. An additional 100 courses are described in the gazetteer section with maps, course cards and commentary.


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1976 non-fiction books Golf books {{golf-stub