{"id":380,"date":"2010-07-20T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2010-11-04T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:04:16","slug":"book-reviews-extreme-golf-the-world-s-most-unusual-fantastic-and-bizarre-courses-by-duncan-lennard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/380\/book-reviews-extreme-golf-the-world-s-most-unusual-fantastic-and-bizarre-courses-by-duncan-lennard","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; &#8220;Extreme Golf \u2013 \u201cThe World\u2019s Most Unusual, Fantastic and Bizarre Courses\u201d  By Duncan Lennard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExtreme Golf\u201d is a nicely illustrated book for the golfer who has everything.\u00a0 (I received it as a gift, and curiously did not already have it.)\u00a0 If you are a golf nut like me who has played six course in a day in 124-degree heat or in freezing temperatures well below zero, you might get a charge out of seeing others playing golf on snow-covered mountains or in cracked desert make-shift course surrounds with painted features.\u00a0 Or perhaps you might savor the crocodile pits in Sun City, Africa.\u00a0 There is a smattering of conventional courses the likes of Cypress Point, Ocean Course at Kiawah, The TPC at Sawgrass, Coeur d\u2019 Alene, Koolau, and others in America and Scotland for which the text is only mildly interesting.\u00a0 More fascinating are the descriptions of the extreme golf experiences that are, indeed, unusual and extreme.<\/p>\n<p>What is also unusual is that there is a listing of contact information for most of the courses and events.\u00a0 So if you want to play in the World Ice Golf Championship in Greenland, this book will provide you with information to make that happen.\u00a0 At $29.95 the price is a bit dear, but perhaps justified by the color photography.\u00a0 \u201cExtreme Golf,\u201d though hardly an essential for your library, may prove an \u201cinteresting\u201d addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExtreme Golf\u201d is a nicely illustrated book for the golfer who has everything.\u00a0 (I received it as a gift, and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/380\/book-reviews-extreme-golf-the-world-s-most-unusual-fantastic-and-bizarre-courses-by-duncan-lennard\" title=\"ReadBook Review &#8211; &#8220;Extreme Golf \u2013 \u201cThe World\u2019s Most Unusual, Fantastic and Bizarre Courses\u201d  By Duncan Lennard\">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":[2439,2453],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","category-book-reviews","tag-golf-courses","tag-extreme-golf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}