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http://www.golf.com/courses-and-travel/architect-tom-doak-reviews-britain-and-irelands-top-tracks-new-confidential-guide

It's an update to his classic The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses . The Britain and Ireland reviews are just the first volume of a four volume set.

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This updated guide adds grades and comments for an additional 1,700 courses, bringing the total to more than 2,500 courses reviewed in a total of five volumes. To assist in assessing the additional courses, Doak enlisted the aid of three other expert design critics -- Ran Morrissett of the United States, Masa Nishijima of Japan and Darius Oliver of Australia. The four other volumes will be released over the next year or two and will span the globe, including the U.S., the Caribbean and the Far East. "Volume 1 will be the least controversial of the set," Doak writes in the introduction, "because Great Britain and Ireland have largely avoided the monstrous displays of earthmoving muscle foisted upon the earth by golf architects in America and, especially, Asia. If there are bad courses in Britain and Ireland, we haven't found many of them -- though perhaps we've been smart enough to avoid a few."

Here's another article about the books:

http://www.golf.com/courses-and-travel/tom-doak-rolling-out-reworked-five-volume-edition-his-controversial-confidential-guide-golf-courses

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I have one of the first editions (paid a pretty penny for it too…). I'll have to snag these too. GREAT fun to flip through them and read reviews of courses…

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I have one of the first editions (paid a pretty penny for it too…). I'll have to snag these too. GREAT fun to flip through them and read reviews of courses…

No kidding. I saw what they are going for when I googled it for a little background information. The little snippets in the article are pretty fun to read. Is the whole book written like that?

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