Golf has long been one of the most popular sports, both in terms of participation and spectating. Millions play at least one round every year and millions more, non players too, watch the top professionals and amateurs live or on television. "The Complete Encyclopedia of Golf" celebrates this great sport and provides an authoritative and extensive record. With features and results on all of the great tournaments - updated to the end of the 2009 season - the famous team competitions (the Ryder Cup and its amateur counterpart, the Walker Cup), an A-Z of the greatest players to have played the game and a directory of the world's greatest courses, this book will provide essential reference to any lover of golf.