Bøger af Joe Bissen

A golf course on a swamp? On a prison grounds? Yes and yes -- and joined by courses built by millionaires, played by champions and designed by experts. From the crazy to the classy, "Fore! Gone. Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses, 1897-1999" revives more than 80 abandoned layouts, many of them long-forgotten. Ever heard of Roadside Golf Club?

A follow-up to the award-winning 2014 book "Fore! Gone.", "More! Gone." makes a distinctive second swing into Minnesota''s lost golf courses - their founders, their designers, the cities, towns, fields and pastures where they made their homes, the people who remembered them fondly or even otherwise, and their brushes with history.Among the cities with stories in "More! Gone.":Ada, Albert Lea, Cass Lake, Cold Spring, Deephaven, Donehower / Dakota, Foley, Foreston, Hastings, Hinckley, Lakeville, Luverne, Madelia, Milaca, Minneapolis, Oakdale, Pine City, Pokegama Township, Princeton, Red Lake Falls, Richmond, Rochester, Rush City, St. Augusta, St. Cloud, St. Joseph, St. Paul, Sauk Rapids, Shorewood, Twin Valley and Winona.Also in in the book is a list of the more than 220 known lost courses of all time in Minnesota.