The Story of Golf in Fifty Holes

＂The book covers the 600-year history of golf and its most significant contributors with a main focus on iconic holes. Tony Dear describes the origins of each course featured, and explains its role in the history of the game such as contributions to course architecture or its importance to the careers of iconic players.＂--

Tony Dear, a former British PGA apprentice professional and member of the University of Liverpool golf team, is now an award-winning freelance golf writer. He contributes to numerous golf publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including Golf World, The Open Championship magazine and Links. He has also written for the Guardian, Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and National Post, and is a former golf correspondent of the New York Sun. He currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.