Two well-reviewed golf gps apps are currently available in the Amazon Appstore for Android.
SkyDroid is $1.99 and has 45 reviews to-date with an average rating of 4 stars.
A relatively new competitor (released March 31, 2011) is from L1 Technologies, a long-time player in the golf GPS market. Their app is free and has 7 reviews, all 5 stars.
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One of the great golf architects of all time shares his wisdom about design, construction, maintenance…even the health benefits, of golf courses. Alister MacKenzie’s classic from 1920 was carefully formatted for the Kindle and all photos are included. A special index at the end contains links to the courses discussed in the book.
Remember: You don’t need to own a Kindle reader to read Kindle ebooks.
Currently ranked #7 on the best sellers list in golf, this ebook is also a bargain at $.99. (If you don’t have a Kindle you can still read it on one of these devices with free reader software.)
Beginning at the age of six at a local course in a small English town, John Norsworthy has more than fifty years experience as a golf teaching professional. He played in the in The Open Championship at St. Andrews in 1960 and has taught in such diverse places as Nigeria (founded the Nigerian PGA), French Riviera, Wales (head pro at Radyr Golf Club and captain of the South Wales PGA) and Belgium.
While in Belgium (head pro at the Royal Waterloo golf club) he gave lessons to King Léopold and co-founded the Belgian PGA.
It probably knows a few things about teaching golf.
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Better hurry. As of February 22, 2011 Arnie & Jack is priced at $1.35 for the Kindle edition. It has 4.5 stars from 23 customer reviews. (The hardcover is $19.76.)
Authors O’Connor and Black chronicle the decades-long rivalry between Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.
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Paperback: 92 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (January 7, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1452867674
ISBN-13: 978-1452867670
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
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If you got a Kindle for Christmas, or if you are looking for a Kindle book to read on your iPhone or Android phone, here is a free book available for download. (It’s out of copyright and also available from numerous sources such as Project Gutenberg.)
This is a mystery novel originally published in 1919 by George Sully and Company.
Interestingly, it is now the top “selling” golf ebook in the Amazon store and number three behind the well reviewed Finally: The Golf Swing’s Simple Secret by J F Tamayo, and the salacious Getting Naked For Tiger Woods: Or, I Was A Wanton Golf Tramp By Valerie Gray (a single star rating…probably well deserved).
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Wow, what a deal, only $.99*. Here is a highly reviewed (4.5 of 5 stars on Amazon) novel from John Corrigan about a guy named Jack Austin.
Jack is engaged, making a living, and still believes in the PGA Tour’s integrity. Then Hutch Gainer reveals a gambling ring. Jack’s fiancée, a CBS commentator, investigates. In this golf mystery, Jack enters the underworld to prevent scandal but finds murder and a contract on his life.
“A wonderful novel that mixes good mystery into the world of golf, sports and the principles of good vs. bad.” — Linda Hunt Willis, Rockwall County News, October 24, 2001
“CUT SHOT” is a riveting novel, with characters you care about, well conceived and gracefully presented.” — Robert B. Parker, Edgar Award Winner & Author of Bestselling Spenser Mystery Series
“John Corrigan’s thriller artfully blends the glamourous PGA Tour with the attempts of organized crime to co-opt the game.” — Les Standiford, author of Deal with the Dead
* As always, noted prices are the price of the media product as of the date of this posting.
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