Golf Courses of the PGA Tour, 3rd edition, is a brand new, lavishly illustrated and beautifully written edition of the book that started the beautiful-golf-course boom, complete with 85 percent new material. Once again, renowned golf expert George Peper (who held the helm at GOLF Magazine for 25 years) takes the reader on a private tour of each tournament on the 2005 PGA Tour.

This “tour of the Tour” includes a full history of the tournament and the hilarious anecdotes only an insider can reveal. Peper also includes tips on how to play specific shots and how to handle the kind of problems that all golfer face. Peper’s often witty yet informative text is complemented by the lavish full-color photographs that show the players at work and the crowds at play, all against the backdrop of the oasis-like courses of the Tour.

In addition, GOLF COURSES OF THE PGA TOUR (November 2004, $50, Abrams) offers a wealth of ancillary information– all updated material – including schematic maps or drawings of each tournament course, yardage and par information for each hole of each course covered, and descriptions of the most difficult and most interesting holes. Unique to Golf Courses of the PGA Tour are comprehensive statistical tables for each tournament including:

*Complete scoring records for every Tour course
*Record scores and largest victory margins
*The hardest and longest courses
*Former champions for each tournament

Golf Courses of the PGA Tour is an invaluable contribution to any golfer’s bookshelf, offering detailed and unique research. From the armchair golfer who follows the Tour on television to the active player seeking inspiration and information from some of the most famous golf courses in the world – the courses on the PGA Tour – this is the ideal gift.
George Peper, editor-in-chief of GOLF Magazine for 25 years, wrote the first and second editions of this book. He lives and golfs in St. Andrew, Scotland.

Golf Courses of the PGA Tour
by George Peper
320 pages 9 ½ x 11 3/4