Presents an insightful look at the game of golf by one of its most famous and beloved people. Legendary golf course architect Donald Ross wrote a book in which he offered many of his thoughts on the game. That book was never published, but in the mid-1990s, the book was miraculously rediscovered and published.

Donald Ross, one of Scotland's great exports to America, has designed or remodeled some of the most magnificent and challenging courses on the planet. His commentaries on the rationale behind his architecture, penned before World War I but only recently rediscovered, present a continuous fairway of graceful and thoughtful insights into the game. Is there a golfer alive who can't make use of such gems as "Holes should be trapped so that par golf depends upon skill rather than upon strength," or "Hazards are placed so as to force a (golfer) to use judgment and to exercise mental control in making the correct shot"?