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Published
by Red Rock Press
Ryder
Cup 2006 By Dermot Gilleece
How
Ireland landed golf's biggest showpiece
Foreward
by Arnold Palmer
Gilleece's
name is synonymous with golf journalism in Ireland as golf
correspondent for the Irish Times for over twenty years
and currently the Sunday Independent correspondent and writes
for all major Irish golf publications.
The
book represented an unusual prequel (published October 2005)
to an event which is just less than one year away. The only
comparable publication is Valderrama : The First Ten Years
by Jaime Ortiz-Patino which was then followed up by the
Valderrama The Ryder Cup Years 1992-1997.
The
book was originally due for publication in January but the
deadline were brought forward to cater for the Xmas market
and as a result it could expect to get a jump on any of
its competitors. When it is as sumptously produced, well
researched, written and structured and providing some tidbits
which suggests the author has more than just a passing acquaintance
with the main characters. It can rightfully expect to K.O.
any other publications in the pipeline with the next one
due to hit the booksellers in April 2006. The first edition
print run was 7,500 copies with another edition quickly
afterwards.
| Other
titles by Author |
Year |
| Dun Laoghaire
Golf Club : An Illustrated Centenary History 1910-2010*
|
2010 |
| Touching
Greatness: Memorable Encounters With Golfing Legends |
2008 |
| Milltown
Golf Club - An Illustrated Centenary History* |
2007 |
| Breaking
80 The Life and times of Joe Carr |
2002 |
| Malahide
Golf Club - Centenary 1892-1992* |
1992 |
| Killiney
Golf Club an illustrated centenary history 1903-2003*
|
2003 |
| County
Sligo Golf Club The First Hundred Years 1894-1994 |
1994 |
| "The
Brad" - The Life and Times of Harry Bradshaw* |
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| Irish
Ladies Golf Union An Illustrated Centenary History 1893-1993* |
1993 |
| Victory!
Story of the 1995 Ryder Cup* |
1995 |
| Golfers'
Guide to Ireland |
2000 |
| Georgina
Campbell's Ireland for Gourmet Golfers* |
2005 |
| Clontarf
Golf Club 1912-1987* |
1987 |
| * co-author |
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The
book starts off by taking you around the Palmer course,
hole by hole, at the K Club, the venue for the Ryder Cup
before Arnold Palmer adds his tuppence with a whistle stop
tour of his experiences of the Ryder Cup and of Ireland.
Gilleece then begins his story of how Ireland landed golf's
biggest showpiece. The story moves through the myriad of
events that make up the staging of the Ryder Cup at the
K-Club and the appeal of the event itself from it first
staging in 1927.
The
chase for the captainancy, the fallout from the terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Centre, the strenghtening of
the European contingent in the 90s and the svengali type
plays and political maneouvrings that were taking place
behind the scenes to secure the event and the venue.
The
book is laced throughout with some of the classic photographs
that have come to depict the Ryder Cup throughout the years.
It takes a close look at the Irish involvement throughout
the life of the Ryder Cup and provides a detailed chronicle
of players records in its Archive section. All in all the
book has left few gaps in dealing with its subject, The
Ryder Cup 2006.
Dermot Gilleece
currently writes a golf blog on the Imagine Golf website.
Click
here.
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