"Ireland has more pure links courses than any other country in the world," writes author John de St. Jorre in his Introduction. "These wild, beautiful and endlessly fascinating golf courses are the cradle of Irish golf, and Irish players love them."

So do golfers everywhere. As British golf writer Henry Longhurst wrote, Irish links have "that indefinable something which makes you relive again and again the day you played there."

What Critics Are Saying:

• “I have no hesitation in declaring this book to be Edgeworth’s and de St. Jorre’s noblest effort yet, worthy of comparison in all significant artistic qualities with Bernard Darwin’s and Harry Rountree’s Golf Courses of the British Isles, published almost a century ago, and equally entitled as that classic to space in any golf library that claims to be serious....Indispensable.” --Michael M. Thomas, Travel & Leisure Golf

• “The photographs drew me into the pages and onto the grass—I can smell Ireland when I open it! Anthony has captured the chilly mists and warm swaths of biblical light that illuminate the Irish countryside, which make you feel that even though your game may have gone to hell, you are still playing in heaven." --David Feherty

• “It is a magnificent book, with superb photographs and a wonderful narrative, which combine so well to capture the essence of playing golf in Ireland.” --Sir Michael Bonallack, former secretary and captain, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.

• “Photographer Anthony Edgeworth and writer John de St. Jorre have pulled off a great hat trick with their third and final golf book. Ireland has yet again provided wonderful writing and magnificent photographs and the authors have both done it proud.” --Ian Wooldridge, golf columnist, The Daily Mail, London

[Above left, Ballybunion]

In much golf photography, the missing ingredient is people. But Edgeworth, an award-winning editorial and advertising photographer, puts the golfers into the golf landscape. You see them, small figures bent over a putt or pulling "trolleys" up a gnarled hillside, maybe with wool cap pulled low, and their diminutive presence in the frame gives the overall scene a breathtaking sense of scale and conveys some of the excitement and pleasure of playing these storied links.

In addition to the monumental, Edgeworth presents the microcosms: closeups of the pubs, clubhouses, signs, sculpture, flora and fauna of the clubs and villages, as well as contextually rich portraits of the people who run the clubs, maintain the courses and play them on a daily basis.

De St. Jorre's text is as rich in reportorial detail and color as the photos themselves.

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