THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS OF GOLF This, the 15th incarnation in one form or another, of Alun Evans' recording of golf's Major Championships, is the eighth consecutive annual edition of The Golf Majors since the author's mighty From Old Tom to the Tiger in 2011. The 2018 edition continues the greatest, most comprehensively detailed chronicle of these wonderful sporting events from the very first Open Championship in 1860 up to the present day. Through a balance of engaging narrative and apposite facts, a series of relevant and accurate charts, lists and tables, the most recent Major Championships' data has in Evans' latest book been intertwined with the rich fabric of golf's history. The complete story of the Majors of 2017 has been logged, telling of first-time Champions Sergio Garcia (whose win in the Masters ended a series of near misses going back two decades), Brooks Koepka (a result waiting to happen in the US Open), and Justin Thomas (emerging from the shadow of boyhood friend Jordan Spieth to take the PGA Championship). It relates the breaking the sequence of first-time Champions by Spieth himself, resurgent after an up-and-down period in the wake his back-to-back Majors successes in 2015, winning an absorbing Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. This, too, is now part of the vibrant tapestry that is the story of golf, as told through its most meaningful milestones. In addition, The Gold Majors 2018 is just that. An exhaustive discussion on the venues for 2018's Majors is punctuated with the most up-to-date information: changes to the courses and their yardages and pars provided by the organizers themselves; the history of the courses and past winners of Major Championships already hosted there. Add to that the support of copious facts and records which appear over the book's last 40 pages, it is easy to understand The Daily Mail's Derek Lawrenson's commenting that, 'When it come to the Major Championships, look no further than Alun Evans' Golf Majors', or John Hopkins of The Times ruefully complaining that it's '...a work you have to keep an eye on in case a colleague borrows it and forgets to return it...'. But you don't have to be a top golf journalist to appreciate Alun Evans' epic series. According to Jeff Silverman's review in Golf.com, '...it is a cornerstone of essential information'. Continuing the saga, therefore, Alun Evans' Golf Majors 2018 is an absolute must for all golf fans and serious followers of top class international sport. Packed with facts and stats, yet highly readable, this is the only book anyone would need on THE GOLF MAJORS
