If you really love the game, you appreciate a good read, and not just the kind your caddie gives you. Here they are: 5 golf books that belong in every golfer’s library.
1. Golf in the Kingdom
By Michael Murphy

Contingent upon whom you ask, this 1971 novel about a youthful voyager's experiences in the Scottish Highlands with the golf professional cum-spiritualist Shivas Irons is either a romping story saturated with profound otherworldly importance or a lot of New Age blather with a bourbon kick. We're not favoring one side, but to state that it's an absolute necessity read in the event that you need to participate in the grillroom banter.

2. The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour
By George Plimpton

A weekend hack inserts himself inside the ropes and lives to tell about it. A lot of golf essayists have attempted this gadget, however, Plimpton did it early and he did it best, with a brilliant record that features not simply players yet oddball caddies, candid talking officials, mixed drink ringing fans and assorted holders on. He was lucky to be working in a less monitored time when access to the Tour was less stage-oversaw. Be that as it may, generally he was fortunate to be George Plimpton, a dazed onlooker with an eye for the ludicrous, favored with the best composing style.

3. To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure
By Michael Bamberger

Not exactly halfway through his life's excursion, Michael Bamberger leaves his place of employment as a paper sportswriter and lights out over the lake on a journey of revelation that serves as an investigation into the game. En route, he caddies for a gifted oddball, plays some of the world's most established courses and absorbs the shrewdness of a Scottish sage. It's the sort of outing you wish you'd made when you were more youthful. Because of Bamberger's melodious prose, you'll feel as though you did. [Full divulgence: Bamberger is currently a senior essayist for Sports Illustrated and GOLF.com contributor.]

4. The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
By Mark Frost

When is a well-disposed four-ball in excess of an amicable four-ball? At the point when the players are a group of four of history's most noteworthy, and the setting is Cypress Point. Consistent with its title, The Match is a record of the folkloric duel between the novice stars Harvey Ward and Ken Venturi, and the professional legends Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan. In any case, the book also parts from the on-course activity to recount to a more extensive anecdote about the introduction of Cypress Point and the inceptions of the Crosby Clambake, at the same time portraying a game on the move, its hub tilting ceaselessly from its novice roots. The outcome is a rich social history, featured by some of the best shotmaking the world has ever observed.

5. Last Rounds: A Father, A Son, The Golf Journey of a Lifetime
By James Dodson

"Golf is for the most part about who you decide to play with," composes the writer, whose accomplice right now his perishing father, Brax. Discovering that the senior Dodson's malignant growth has returned, leaving him with negligible months to live, the two men set off on a golf excursion to the admired connections of Scotland and England. The game has consistently been a bond between them, however never more so than on this excursion, which happens on the course yet in addition in the bars, where Brax tips back pints with local people and shows a radiant viewpoint that, Dodson composes, would have "showed the whole Hemlock Society the intensity of constructive reasoning." Given its substance, you may anticipate that the book should be a sappy perused, yet Dodson backs off of the syrup, leaving space for the story's harsh sweetness to come through. Golf resembles life, it's often said. Last Rounds uncovers the similitudes.