The public is given full access to the same world-class facilities previously enjoyed by the country's elite golfers as The National Golf Centre Academy at Woodhall Spa launches a comprehensive 'open-to-all' teaching programme

Fabulous book No II - The World's best, such as last week's winners Lee Westwood and Graham McDowell are incredible players - the gulf between those you watch on the TV and what ordinary sport-people can do is enormous, even accounting for Golf?s unique handicapping system.

There is a new series from Collins - 'need to know' - and the latest addition to this selection is all about Golf. It wasn't so long ago that the Observer series, which ran to hundreds of titles, was one of the most popular (and good reference) books of its kind on so many subjects and 'Need to know Golf' has something of the feel of the Observer series. Collins have taken 'authoritative' as a byword not for the history and courses of golf - this is all about how to play the game.

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