The fourth volume of Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective incorporates forty-two absorbing and lavishly illustrated golf-architecture-based essays, along with six picture essays—a true smorgasbord of information for students of golf-course architecture and golf book collectors, who, collectively, yearn for stimulating literature that extends beyond the short-lived thrill of the latest tip on swing technique.

Paul Daley has gathered a contemporary, international assessment of the golf-course-architecture industry, through which its principles and practices are examined.

To complement the technical, engineering and problem-solving-based essays, which transport readers squarely ‘into the cockpit’ of the design world, readers encounter a balance of teasing, esoteric accounts; for example, one author’s explanation of his addiction to sand. Another essayist makes the link between Tobacco Road Golf Club and Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, while yet another has written cleverly on a course-bunkering style at a famous British course that resembles the shape of human eyebrows!

The demand for course reviews remains high and, with an array of new and relatively new courses featured—the Australian courses of Magenta Shores and Settlers Run, The Ridge at Manitou in Canada, Haugaland Golf Klubb in Norway, The Castle Course, St Andrews, and the Fairmont at St Andrews in Scotland, Black Mountain in Thailand, and the US courses at Bayonne, Erin Hills, Primland, Sebonack and Wolf Point Club—there is much to enjoy through the cool thoughts and heated passion expressed in Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective.