The 500 World's Greatest Golf Holes

Here are the 500 most beautiful, difficult, exotic, thrilling, and notorious golf holes in the world, complete with the fairways and greens, bunkers and hazards, that have thwarted Tiger Woods and David Duval, Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino, Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones - and those they have conquered.

Now available for the first time in paperback, this definitive collection of golf holes, complete with more than 600 colour photographs and 18 schematics, is the ultimate dream book for golf enthusiasts worldwide.

This lavish book is filled with anecdotal biographies and vital statistics of the holes deemed the best in the world by the magazine's editors and their panel of international experts.

Readers will find out if their favourite holes made the cut by first turning to The Eighteen, representing the most respected and challenging holes - holes like the thirteenth at Augusta National. Next, they discover the top 100 (the eleventh at St. Andrews Old Course and the fifty at Pinehurst, for example). Finally, there is an all-inclusive gazetteer of all 500. A special section offers the Best of the Best - lists of holes by category, such as the most scenic, longest, best in Europe, hardest-to-putt greens, and so on.