Daniel’s MT3 Titles
The PGA Tour: A Week-by-Week History - Volumes 1 and 2 (2024) (Available in hardcover)
Definitively chronicling the history of men’s professional golf in the United States, Volumes One and Two of The PGA Tour: A Week-by-Week History combine to provide detailed coverage of more than 1800 tournaments from 1916-1968. Each event includes a detailed narrative of play, as well as scoring results for the top 25 finishers, with Major championships naturally receiving much larger and more detailed coverage. Also included are extensive appendices providing thumbnail recaps of 800 additional tournaments of historical note (including numerous events from Central and South America, and the old Caribbean winter circuit), as well as numerous photographs, course maps and additional illustrations. A unique reference resource for any golf library, these volumes represent, by far, the most comprehensive record of American professional golf ever assembled.
The American Private Golf Club Guide (2021)
The flagship volume of MT III Golf Media's Black Book series of national and regional course guidebooks, this fourth edition of The American Private Golf Club Guide is the only guidebook dedicated solely to the nation's private clubs. This volume profiles 1,000 clubs in 49 states which, given the number of multi-course facilities covered, adds up to nearly 1,100 featured courses – with thumbnail profiles included for nearly 500 more. Continuing the series’ tradition of providing accurate, detailed and candid assessments of each layout, its profiles range from 150-600 words and include a unique five-star Collectability Rating – a course rating method entirely exclusive to the Black Book. Each profile also offers a full range of ancillary information, from a layout’s architectural genesis and contact information to its rating, slope, practice facilities and position in current national/state rankings.
Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost Golf Courses and Holes (222pp, Sleeping Bear Press/John Wiley & Sons, 2000)
“The book that began my writing career. The concept for Missing Links was sparked by a conversation that I had in 1998 with the late, great golfer-broadcaster Dave Marr. We were discussing a list of classic courses that I was considering attempting to write a book about and when Charles Blair Macdonald’s long-defunct Lido Golf Club was mentioned, Dave became very enthusiastic, saying that Claude Harmon had once told him that it was 'the greatest golf course ever.' The novelty value of including a lost course within such a potential volume set me to thinking and pretty soon I was compiling a list of deceased courses built by the great Golden Age architects. I wasn't familiar with very many of these layouts but the men who’d built them were among the game’s greatest-ever designers. Thus when the list of courses quickly grew beyond 100, I began thinking in terms of a book…” – DW
A Timeless Game: Some Thoughts On Golf Topics Old And New (2020)
Written by one of America’s leading golf historians, A Timeless Game is a collection of ten essays touching upon a wide range of golfing subjects, capturing the game’s uniquely varied flavor in a manner rare to modern golf literature. Meticulously researched, its topics range from the life and exploits of the legendary Willie Anderson, and the barrier-breaking golfing life of heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis to the contemporary dominance of Korean women golfers and issues of modern equipment. Along the way, it pays a visit to America’s greatest lost course, and to the long-forgotten tournament histories of a number of big city municipal facilities, while also revisiting the career of Jack Nicklaus by chronicling his 18 Major championship victories, and performing a detailed historical study of more than 1,500 professional events, resulting in a proposed reshuffling of the PGA Tour’s record book.
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The American Golf Resort Guide (2022)
A part of MT III Golf Media's Black Book series of national and regional course guidebooks, this updated edition of The American Golf Resort Guide profiles more than 850 resorts nationwide, a roster which covers nearly 1,200 courses, over 900 of which are profiled in full Black Book detail. Continuing the series’ tradition of providing accurate and candid assessments of every layout, course profiles are based on a consensus of rankings and opinions, and include a unique five-star Collectability Rating – a course rating method exclusive to the Black Book. Each profile also offers a full range of ancillary information, from a layout’s architectural genesis and contact information to its rating, slope, practice facilities and position in current national/state rankings. No other guidebook covers resort golf so candidly or comprehensively, or with so detailed an eye towards a course’s history and design evolution.
The Black Book
This unique series of national and regional course guidebooks follows the format of the Private Club and Resort volumes detailed above, providing accurate, detailed and candid assessments of every course in a particular region, from the ritziest private clubs to municipal par-3 layouts. Each course profile ranges from 150-600 words and includes both MT3’s unique five-star Collectability Rating and a full range of ancillary information, from a layout’s architectural genesis and contact info to its rating, slope, practice facilities and position in current national/state rankings. Presently the following regional volumes are available:
● The New York Golf Guide (337 pp, over 450 courses profiled)
● The Southern California Golf Guide (341 pp, over 500 courses profiled)
● The Chicago Area Golf Guide (228 pp, over 300 courses profiled)
● The Miami Golf Guide (163 pp, nearly 275 courses profiled)
● The Phoenix Golf Guide (167 pp, nearly 250 courses profiled)
● The Philadelphia Golf Guide (169 pp, over 200 courses profiled)
● The Boston Golf Guide (197 pp, over 260 courses profiled)
● The San Francisco Golf Guide (164 pp, over 170 courses covered)
● The Tropical Golf Guide (232 pp, over 325 course profiled)
● The Las Vegas Golf Guide (105 pp, covers all of Las Vegas & Lake Tahoe)
● The Hilton Head Golf Guide (106 pp, covers the entire Lowcountry region)
● The Myrtle Beach Golf Guide (92 pp, covers the entire Grand Strand region)
● The Palm Springs Golf Guide (111pp, covers the entire Coachella Valley region)
This Land: An American Story (2023)
Doug Bradford, a descendent of Pilgrims and former New York writer, has moved West to teach journalism at the University of New Mexico. His life is initially slow and easy, his existence built around his job and a 10-year-old rescue dog named Walter. But following a chance meeting, his world is turned upside down by Angela, a beautiful Native American professor, and her young, painfully introverted son. Their relationship draws him into a Southwestern world filled with colorful characters led a towering tribal police chief, an ancient Indian mystic and, at the heart of it all, the woman of his dreams. As he adjusts to the turbulence of his culture-crossing relationship, Doug grows attached to many on the reservation, and becomes embroiled in a missing-person mystery, a life-altering presidential election, Native American land rights issues and, ultimately, a life-or-death standoff fomented by a deranged President of The United States. Steeped in the mystique of the desert Southwest, This Land is truly a story of our times.
Also By Daniel
Lost Links: Forgotten Treasures of Golf's Golden Age (240pp, Clock Tower/John Wiley & Sons, 2003)
“I had not originally planned on doing a second book on lost golf courses, figuring, if anything, that maybe we'd do a revised edition of Missing Links at some point. But sales of the first book were high enough to spark the publisher’s interest in producing a sequel and as I continued my research into the subject, I began to fully understand just how many really strong courses (many built by the game’s most famous designers) had actually disappeared over the years – and that number greatly exceeded those which had been covered in Missing Links. So Lost Links, it turned out, had some genuine legs, and it proved a most enjoyable project to complete. We ended up highlighting 12 more courses in a manner similar to the first book, then mapping and describing 62 others, plus a number of lost holes from famous courses (Pinehurst, Quaker Ridge, Merion, etc.). In the end, there was so much material that we actually had to drop a few courses from the final list.” – DW
The Golfer's Library: A Reader's Guide to Three Centuries of Golf Literature (247 pp, Sports Media Group, 2004)
"The Golfer’s Library was really an outgrowth of the research I had done while writing Missing Links and Lost Links, a process which exposed me to the incredible depth and variety of golf-related literature and, ultimately, turned me into a dedicated collector. It was in the building of my own library that I discovered the need for a buyer’s guidebook, something that would provide a useful, detailed survey of the entire field. As a result, The Golfer’s Library profiles 400 books dating from the mid-1800s through 2003, providing full descriptions of each volume, as well as bibliographic, reprint and pricing information. My favorite aspect of the book, however, is its readability; I was determined that this not be a dry textbook, but rather an easy journey offering a real taste of the game’s unique ambience and history as well. The prices of the various titles have obviously evolved over time but as a guide to what’s what, this still reads nicely today” – DW
The Book of Golfers: A Biographical History of the Royal & Ancient Game (479 pp, Sports Media Group, 2005)
“In setting out to write The Book of Golfers, the slightly daunting goal was to assemble, under a single cover, profiles and records of every significant figure in the game’s long and rich history, from the 15th century to the present - or, more accurately, to the book's publishing date of 2005. Arranged in encyclopedic form, it includes profiles of nearly 1,000 players from 33 countries, almost 200 of the game's greatest architects and writers, and all manner of other colorful and fascinating figures in between. In addition to providing biographical, statistical, and anecdotal information for each, the book also offers extensive appendices including an annotated ranking of the top 50 male golfers of all time, as well as the top 25 women. This is surely as thorough a volume as has ever been assembled, and while it obviously doesn’t include many a new millennium golfer, the historical profiles still hold up nicely today. I sincerely hope that golfers everywhere will gain as much enjoyment from reading it as I did from researching and writing it.” – DW
The New World Atlas of Golf (with Michael Clayton, Ran Morrissett, et.al.) (302 pp, Hamlyn Publishing, 2008)
“It was truly an honor to be involved with the 2005 editing/rewrite of the seventh edition of the World Atlas of Golf, one of the game’s most widely loved - and widely circulated - books. But having the opportunity to write large segments of an entirely new version (the first in 32 years) surely ranks among my biggest career highlights. Following in the footsteps of Herbert Warren Wind, Charles Price, Pat Ward-Thomas and Peter Thomson was certainly a daunting task, but working with Mike Clayton and Ran Morrissett, plus editor Mark Rowlinson – men whose knowledge of the great courses worldwide is unsurpassed - certainly gave one a sense of confidence. With new state-of-the-art maps and photographs, and a really inspiring selection of courses from around the globe, the New World Atlas represents a fine continuation of the distinguished legacy earned by the original volume.” – DW
