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Charles Lindsay’s photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards where golf balls are lost–rough, woods, bunkers, and wetlands–as well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer with plenty of experience losing balls, Lindsay photographs his way to the heart of the game with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process, he discovers balls ravaged by golfers, gators, and foxes–and lost for over a century.
Lindsay even encounters what is believed to be the world’s oldest golf ball–unearthed in a cellar in the Netherlands alongside a primitive club.
The photographs were taken at celebrated courses in North America, England, Scotland, and Ireland: Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Bethpage, Fossil Trace, Troon, St. Andrews, Royal St. Georges, Ballybunion, Old Head, and many others.
The foreword by John Updike is a celebration of golf and nature and where the two meet. A humorous story by golf giant Greg Norman rounds out the book. more info
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The Perfect Gift for your weekend duffer!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This gift is sure to bring a smile to the golfer in your life along with a sigh of relief or a nod of understanding. This book will entertain golfer and non-golfer alike providing ice-breaking laughter for the idle page turner in your clan.
Great Title
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a great book. Amazing pictures and wonderful humor. You have to be a golf fan however.
Great photos
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this book as a gift for a friend, but ended up sharing it with various family before wrapping it up. It was also the hit of the party when it WAS opened. Very entertaining and a book easy to pick up and look at more than once. A hit for golfers or those who enjoy a photo with a message.
Not What I Expected
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I thought this would cover sensational or interesting lies and shots involving famous tournaments or golfers. Instead, I found it to be a mundane collection of golf photography. It seemed to center around clever shots of old balls and feature “friends” of the author. I returned the book.
Great coffee table book for golfers
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought this book for a friend who loves to golf and he enjoyed it. It’s got great photos for great conversation.
Lost Balls review
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Thought it was a great book, loved the photos,he included a lot of courses that were unknown, but forgot Shiskine: http://forelinksters.com/course/shiskine_golf_and_tennis_club_isle_of_arran
Cover misleading
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The cover indicated unusual scenes on the golf course. The other monthly pictures were rather ordinary.
The best coffee table book in the house
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book’s photographs are absolutely brilliant! I first saw the book walking through a store and picked it up only to open up to a page where a golf ball was stuck in a pile of poo. I was flipping pages before you knew it and every shot had me smiling, laughing, reminiscing and just really enjoying the photos. If you are a golfer or going to be buying this book for a golfer I am sure they will get as much enjoyment out of it as I have. Everyone comes into our home and I catch them flipping pages on the book and enjoying it. So don’t pass this book up, buy it now!
Delightful
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book is perfectly delightful. I purchased this for my husband, and he has spent hours pouring over it. The pictures are wonderful and very high quality. He swears I bought it because so many pictures are of him in trouble at the golf course (not true!), but loads of laughs.
Great Gift
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Really great gift for a golfer. Bought it for my husband but both of us have very much enjoyed. Photos are great, printing quality is very fine. There are recountings of several epic lays but there are plenty of other stories and images; widely varied, entertaining and interesting. So much so that we’ve been inspired to plan trips to a couple of the locations in the book.
Great gift for golfers
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Our son got such a kick out of the book we have him for Fathers Day. Actually, we really enjoyed reading it before we wrapped it up. Wish we could find a photo of the cover for framing.
For every golfer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I gave my husband Lost Balls for Father’s Day and he absolutely loved it. My 16 year old son and I both enjoyed it as well. This book has beautiful pictures – the photography is excellent – that capture some incredible and impossible lies. The scenes are lovely and make one appreciate golf as a form of relaxation. The many precarious positions that are captured make one appreciate golf as an obsession. For those who love and hate this game, this book will be enjoyed.
Lost Balls
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Bought 2 as a gifts for my husband and his friend. They thought it was perfect.
Amazing Gift for Any Golfer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The photographs are amazing. They are witty and visually interesting. I gave it to my grandfather for his birthday and it was a huge hit. The book got passed around and everyone enjoyed it. I went back and bought a second copy for myself. It is the perfect coffee table book.
Awesome Book!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Pictures say more than any words can in this book. If you love golf, you can definately relate to the pictures. I love it!
A magnificent golf book
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
A truly inspired book made of pictures that are both nice to look at and evocative of the terrible places where our balls will lie every now and then…. A superbly shot series of images that will surely delight any golfer. Especially because he can have some relief in seeing other golfers’ balls in places even worse than the ones where he sent his ones last week. Recommended!
Dr Stefano Pasini,
Bologna,
hcp 21
A book for every golfer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought one for a friend and another for myself. If you play
golf, you think that maybe the results of some of your own
golf shots may not be so bad. Even if you don’t play golf,
the pictures are funny and interesting (as long as it is someone
else’s ball). Well worth the money.
A must have for any golfer!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I saw this book on the coffee table of a friend and immediately went home and bought it as a gift for my brother. He is an avid golfer and was overwhelmed with this gift! He has it on his coffee table and said his visitors never put it down and it’s his favorite gift of the year! I’m not a golfer and I still LOVED this book!
Lost Balls
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I ordered this book as a gift. I loved it so much ( I am NOT a golfer at all) that I ordered another as a gift plus one for me!
Lost Balls:
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this for a golf finatic friend of mine from Houston. He LOVED it. Great photos of both UK and US courses.