{"id":361,"date":"2010-07-20T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2010-11-04T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:09:14","slug":"book-reviews-the-book-of-golfers-a-biographical-history-of-the-royal-amp-ancient-game-by-daniel-wexler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/361\/book-reviews-the-book-of-golfers-a-biographical-history-of-the-royal-amp-ancient-game-by-daniel-wexler","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &#8220;The Book of Golfers \u2013 A Biographical History of the Royal &amp; Ancient Game&#8221;  By Daniel Wexler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Book of Golfers\u201d is first and foremost a reference book detailing some 1,300 people who have been important to the game.\u00a0 The operative words are &#8220;detail&#8221; and &#8220;style&#8221; as Daniel Wexler provides enough information to make the book invaluable as a reference, yet easy and pleasant enough to be a surprisingly good read.\u00a0 These types of books periodically surface and this one is a cut above.\u00a0 Also interesting are the three Appendices in which the author covers Players, Architects, and Writers.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I did find a few people missing that I would have hoped to find, but there were many others around the world included so as to satisfy my curiosity.\u00a0 This is a reference book with style.\u00a0 At $34.95, \u201cThe Book of Golfers\u201d is available from The Sports Media Group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annarbormediagroup.com\/\">www.annarbormediagroup.com<\/a>.Boo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Book of Golfers\u201d is first and foremost a reference book detailing some 1,300 people who have been important to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/361\/book-reviews-the-book-of-golfers-a-biographical-history-of-the-royal-amp-ancient-game-by-daniel-wexler\" title=\"ReadBook Review: &#8220;The Book of Golfers \u2013 A Biographical History of the Royal &amp; Ancient Game&#8221;  By Daniel Wexler\">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":[9,2437],"tags":[2442,2443],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","category-book-reviews","tag-golf-reference","tag-daniel-wexler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}