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Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Lindsay
Publisher: Bulfinch
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 10793
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 10.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0821261851
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352022
EAN: 9780821261859
ASIN: 0821261851
Publication Date: May 4, 2005
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Product Description
Charles Lindsay's photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards where golf balls are lost--rough, woods, bunkers, and wetlands--as well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer with plenty of experience losing balls, Lindsay photographs his way to the heart of the game with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process, he discovers balls ravaged by golfers, gators, and foxes--and lost for over a century. Lindsay even encounters what is believed to be the world's oldest golf ball--unearthed in a cellar in the Netherlands alongside a primitive club. The photographs were taken at celebrated courses in North America, England, Scotland, and Ireland: Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Bethpage, Fossil Trace, Troon, St. Andrews, Royal St. Georges, Ballybunion, Old Head, and many others. The foreword by John Updike is a celebration of golf and nature and where the two meet. A humorous story by golf giant Greg Norman rounds out the book.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
Better than "How To Line Up Your 4th Putt" April 16, 2005
Doug Anderson (Palm Beach, Florida USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Charlie Lindsay is an irreverant guy with an unfailing eye. He sees what others don't and makes you grin for the joy of discovery he has had with his camera out in nature searching for the bizarre and wonderful on and around the golf course.
Be it a golf ball tucked neatly under a "meadow muffin" or a pair of golf shoes hanging from a tombstone, be prepared for a visual feast where golf and golf courses are the metaphor.
What a treat. What a great gift!! I've sent a dozen already and it's early in the day.
Lost Balls and Other Bad Lies October 1, 2005
William G. Shea (beautiful coastal Maine)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
WONDERFUL book for golfers... or as a gift to golfers. Photos are crisp and lovely, lies are unimaginable and even inconceivable! Makes those of us who do NOT play golf wonder why others do, and should make golfers offer prayers of thanks that they have never, never had shots to play like these...
Wonderfully fast shipment of pristine condition books!
 great photos January 15, 2006
E. A. Krinsky (Greenville, CA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased this as a gift for my dad, an avid golfer. When I got it, I was a little disappointed at the sparse text....but the photos are great. My dad LOVED the book....
Lost Balls- a great photgraphic journey May 3, 2005
Dr. Alan J. King (North Dakota)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Charles Lindsay has captured the true soul of golf with this photographic journey through some of the most interesting places in the world. This book is perfect for the person who truely loves and understands the game of golf. His combination of humor and photographic genius make this a wonderfully entaining book for anyone who has ever played the game. I hope there is a sequel.
A book for every golfer March 19, 2007
MR GOLF
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought one for a friend and another for myself. If you play
golf, you think that maybe the results of some of your own
golf shots may not be so bad. Even if you don't play golf,
the pictures are funny and interesting (as long as it is someone
else's ball). Well worth the money.
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