Classic Shots: The Greatest Images from the United States Golf Association

by Marty Parkes

Book Overview

Just in time for Father's Day and a new golf season, Classic Shots showcases the best 250 photographs of the sport from the 1920s to the present day, culled from the USGA's archive of more than half a million images. While some of these photos have appeared in print over the years, many have never been published before. Among the many highlights are a single image showing the great Bob Jones' swing sequence... Payne Stewart's 1999 U.S. Open-winning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426200382
• ISBN13: 9781426200380
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 3.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Love golf - this is a classic

Love this book for its classic shots as the title depicts. There are wonderful pictures of golfers through the decades, makes a great coffee table book or a wonderful gift for the golfer in your life.

An Extraordinary Collection

This volume gives us a very unusual and refreshing glimpse of virtually every aspect of the game. The patience and thoughtfulness given to analyzing and selecting from among the half-million images in the USGA photo archives is amazing enough in itself, but what Marty Parkes and his collaborators at Golf House have put together here will stir the imagination and thrill the soul of anyone who has ever held a golf club. Whether it's Tiger with his Dad or Old Tom Morris and Harry Vardon at St. Andrews, Ouimet blasting out of a bunker at the '23 Walker Cup or, perhaps one of the most poignant photos, a group of uniformed servicemen on a practice green at Camp Gordon, Georgia during World War II, this volume has it all ... and all of us will be the better for spending time with it!

Classic Shots is captured forever!

I am fortunate and I am forever grateful to be the proud holder of this beautiful book.

Your guy will love this...mine did!

I purchased this book as a Father's Day gift for my golfer husband. He loved it! Our golfer son came to visit and he loved it! National Geographic has produced an excellent product with this beautifully photographed and extremely well written volume. My husband placed it on our bookcase...face forward...it's that beautiful!