Books : Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and his Golf Courses
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by: Bradley S. Klein
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.5092
EAN: 9781886947559
ISBN: 1886947554
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 415
Publication Date: August 29, 2001
Publisher: Wiley
Sales Rank: 371770
Studio: Wiley
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Discovering the life and work of a true artist: Donald Ross
I grew up playing a Donald Ross golf course, Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, so my standards of what a good golf course should be were based on a Ross design. I think being exposed early to a Donald Ross course provided me balance, as both a player and future golf course designer, because of the variety of shots found throughout each of his design. Ross was without a doubt a great influence on my design career, and he remains a personal favorite. I am happy to see Brad Klein devote a book to the work of Donald Ross. Brad is passionate about golf course design and that translates in his writing.
--Jack Nicklaus
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Must for All Golfers
I live in North Carolina, where Ross made his home--at least in the fall, winter, and spring. There's almost a holy reverence for the man around here but there's a lot of bluster and phoney-ness too. For example, there are plenty of clubs that say they have a Ross course when they have anything but. I remember a guy at a country club here telling me how fortunate they were to have an original Ross course. At the time, I didn't know any better and so I believed the dafty. I soon discovered that little ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Broad Perspective On Donald Ross
Whereas Bahto in the Evangelist of Golf is focused on the National more and how it came to define C.B. MacDonald, Brad Klein produces a broad overview of Donald Ross and is less focused on any one aspect of his life and career as a golf designer.
Donald Ross was the Henry Ford of golf design. Some 400 courses confirmed to his credit with, of course, Pinehurst being his crown achievement.
I think this is a solid overview of Donald Ross in general, but I was hoping to really appreciate ... Read More
Rating: - A golf legend comes alive
Brad Klein has done a superb job in this lavishly illustrarted story of Donald Ross,long recognized as one the original "founding fathers" of the golden era of golf architecture. While it shows dozens of courses in detail,it is much more than a picture book, since it tells the story of Ross right from his earliest days in Scotland. Klein weaves a very readable and interesting picture of the life and accomplishments of Donald Ross.
The book is well named since it a wonderful journey of discovery. There ... Read More
Rating: - A Painstaking Much Awaited Masterpiece
There is little doubt of the time and effort it took to reasearch this phenominal book on one of Golf's Great Heroes.
Author Brad Klein gives the reader a inside view of not only who Donald Ross was, what he represents to the game of Golf today, as well as a revealing throwback to an age gone by.
Aerial photos, course diagrams, and other pertinent data show the reader just how much the game's playing grounds have changed, and the effort to hold on to their design critieria as was intended by ... Read More
Rating: - Discovering Bradley Klein's Ross
In "Discovering Donald Ross," Bradley S. Klein has written a book which can be thumbed through and enjoyed as visual entertainment by the casual golfer/reader or closely studied by the ardent student of the old game. Left on the coffee table or the night stand to be used to fill precious spare minutes with golf-related dreaming, the photos and captions alone will captivate and enlighten the reader. Dr. Klein has revealed himself as a talented photo-journalist, equally comfortable telling the story of Donald Ross with ... Read More
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