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Best golf books: a Sports Bookshelf top 10 of the most popular books about golf, including a new history of the Ryder Cup

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Did you love the Ryder Cup? Are you already a committed golf fan, or did the great comeback in Medinah open up a new dimension to your sporting fascinations? Golf has traditionally been a source of good reading for sports fans, and no sport offers a greater proliferation of instructional guides for the enthusiastic amateur. Here is The Sports Bookshelf's potted guide to 10 of today's most popular golf books . Click on the picture or text links for more information and to buy. Out of Bounds: Legendary Tales From the 19th Hole , by Sam Torrance (Simon & Schuster) Sam Torrance, Scottish golfing legend, veteran of eight Ryder Cups, sank the winning put as Europe ended 28 years of US dominance at The Belfry in 1985 and returned to the Midlands course as winning captain in 2002. A natural raconteur, Sam has a fund of insights and anecdotes, some hilarious, some eyebrow-raising. In this new book, he divulges tall tales from the great, the good and the not-so-g