Stonehouse Publishing
"The Fine Art of Golf"
Patrick Drickey
Every person who swings a club
in earnest knows the game of golf is
more than a sum of strokes. Each shot
is a test - a measurement of player against a specific amalgam of contour,
weather and distance.
This is golf's essential correlation;
The player must create the shot,
but it is the course, golf's hallowed ground,
that makes the game.
Stonehouse Publishing has dedicated itself to capturing images of the world's most beautiful and challenging golf environments. They present panoramic vistas through the lens of Patrick Drickey, whose extraordinary skill expresses the unique character of each course from the player's perspective. It is award winning work, eminently collectible by anyone who cherishes the game and its time-honored traditions.
Consider the grandeur of these special places, this hallowed ground of golf.
Harbour Town No. 18
The 18th at Harbour Town is one of the most recognizable finishing holes in all of golf and one of the most difficult. The famed lighthouse that oversees the concluding green has seen the legends of the game walking to Triumph up the closing fairway.
Before the champion is crowned, the 18th ensures there is work to be done. This dogleg left has a generously proportioned landing area. The further left the ball is placed in the fairway sculpted into the tidal zone, the shorter the second shot. The approach shot is where trouble awaits. The green accepts approaches that are "all carry." There is no provision for anything less.
For the amateur player, this means a fairway wood or longish iron that
will be entirely at risk before it reaches the putting surface. The salt
marsh protrudes in front and to the left of the green, which has secondary
guardians in healthy bunkers that are deep and menacing.
By no means are two putts a certainty.
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