Coverage Les Miscellanées du golf

It is very rare that we shine on the course. But, with these Miscellanées du Golf, we will be able to catch ourselves on the nineteenth hole, during long conversations with our partners, around solid reconstructions. Whether we consume in moderation or not, like the pages of this collection. Chronologies, biographies, palmares, stories and anecdotes, sometimes crisp:

this book provides such a comprehensive overview of the Noble and Ancient Game of golf. The reader will draw from it the essential and the accessory, the marvelous and the unusual, he will come across some forgotten champions, splendid anonymous and inaccessible superstars, he will discover temples blessed by Saint Andrews and pilgrims who can be princes. or shepherds.

This book will teach the reader that Érik Satie devoted a musical page to golf, that a wooden spoon was given to a Dutchman who had returned a 316 card during a competition, that it was because of golf that 'Al Capone limped… That if the albatross is a rare species, from which most Sunday players are protected, the Condor remains a myth. That France is, like Scotland, a very old land of golf. That we went as far as driving on the moon, which is proof that golf drives people crazy (“and that golf can only cure that” as a great champion of the game said) .

Here is above all a volume whose pages are not cluttered with technical or esoteric advice given at the practice by a few gurus. And thanks to which - to use the famous phrase of George Bernard Shaw - one can continue his walk without being spoiled by his little white ball.

Author of numerous works (birthday books, monographs, collections), Georges Jeanneau sits on the board of the EAGHC (European Association of Golf Historians and Collectors) and gives numerous conferences.
He has also participated in several commemorative books (Dinard, Etretat, Aix-les-Bains.) And contributes to the French golf magazines Journal du Golf, Golfika, Golf Magazine…).