{"id":1102,"date":"2010-09-09T01:46:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T08:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2011-11-21T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:29:01","slug":"book-review-gary-player-s-top-golf-courses-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/book-reviews\/1102\/book-review-gary-player-s-top-golf-courses-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  Gary Player&#8217;s Top Golf Courses of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gary Player<\/strong> <strong>with Chris Whales &amp; Duncan Cruickshank, New Holland Publishers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be honest, this is a book about Gary Player promoting golf courses his organization designed, and charging you for it, little more. I would have less issue with this coffee-table picture book of courses if it had been titled, as Player said in his preface, <em>his<\/em> \u201cfavorite\u201d courses.\u00a0 Calling it his \u201cTop Courses\u201d smacks of commercialism and the self-promotion that Gary Player has long epitomized. I felt deceived to find that \u201cGary Player-designed\u201d courses were overwhelmingly represented, including Raspberry Farms in Virginia, an upscale daily fee facility, the nondescript Sand River in China, or Manhattan Woods in New York.\u00a0 Those, along with some others, are a joke, as they don\u2019t even register on the radar screen of local rankings, let alone regional or national ones.\u00a0 That said, at least the book is entertaining and well presented.\u00a0 There are some fresh pictures of the established courses, and each has a nice, brief historical sketch along with Gary Player\u2019s gushy reviews.\u00a0 At $40, I\u2019d pass on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Player with Chris Whales &amp; Duncan Cruickshank, New Holland Publishers Let\u2019s be honest, this is a book about Gary&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/book-reviews\/1102\/book-review-gary-player-s-top-golf-courses-of-the-world\" title=\"ReadBook Review:  Gary Player&#8217;s Top Golf Courses of the World\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2437],"tags":[2158,2439],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-gary-player","tag-golf-courses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6266,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/6266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}