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The Golf Book traces the game's impact from its roots in the 15th century and celebrates the game's greatest players, performances and stunning landscapes, from the Scottish hills of St. Andrews to the breathtaking cliffs of Pebble Beach.

Interspersed with rare photos of Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson and Francis Ouimet are equally stunning photos of a grinning Richard Nixon just after he made a hole-in-one at Bel-Air Country Club in 1959, W.C. Fields using a driver as a fishing pole; Jack Nicklaus behind the counter of the elder Nicklaus' Columbus, Ohio, pharmacy; and Paula Creamer doing a cartwheel in front of St. Andrews' Swilcan Bridge during the 2007 Ricoh Women's British Open.

The sport also lends itself to descriptive storytelling, which the book captures with the award-winning work of Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Gary Smith, Dan Jenkins and others.

Three photographers and four writers tee up short hits on what it takes to capture a great photo or write a compelling story.

A man in his underwear

At this year's World Golf Championships-CA Championship at Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Miami, photographer Kyle Auclair was in the right place at the right time when Henrik Stenson started stripping to hit a shot out of a water hazard:

"Stenson was two shots off the lead and Tiger (Woods) was in the group behind him. Everyone was following Tiger, so I wanted to get ahead of him and maybe shoot something different. It was Thursday morning, so I didn't want to have the same thing as everybody else. And it's tough to get anything different when everyone is following the same group. So I went ahead and got lucky.

"I didn't know Stenson was going to take his clothes off. I thought he was just joking around, playing it up for the gallery. Then he took his shirt off and I thought this could be something big. Then he took his pants off. And everyone was laughing. And he was talking to me because I was the only photographer there and he was saying, 'Come on, man, don't take these pictures.' He was playing with Ryuji Imada and Ben Curtis and they were egging me on to take the photos. I took about 16 photos."

The quintessential Sports Illustrated writer

That's what Larry King calls Dan Jenkins. Born during the Depression, Jenkins has enriched readers' lives with his wit and humor in more than 500 articles in SI and more than 20 books, including Dead Solid Perfect, Semi-Tough: A Novel and The Franchise Babe. Although retired, he writes a monthly column for Golf Digest and even started tweeting in 2009.

"To write a great story you have to start by having a winner somebody has ever heard of. The more famous the player the more stature it gives the event. It's much easier to write about Jack Nicklaus (Golf Tips From Jack Nicklaus) than it is to write about somebody you've never heard of. It's easier to write about Tiger (Woods).

"We don't root for people, we root for journalism. We root for stories. When you wrote for Sports Illustrated, you had to absorb the tournament for three or four days and on Sunday night, you were on deadline and you had to tell a story. Every day was important — but there was always a defining moment. And then you kick that defining moment to death. That takes some experience. And it takes experience to leave things out. You run across marvelous and hilarious anecdotes but if they don't follow the theme of the story, you file them away and use them some other time.

"I grew up in Texas and I grew up with golf and college football — those were the two most important things because of Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson and Jimmy Demaret and Lee Trevino. If you don't like golf and college football as a kid, they drown you. I like both of them equally. Golf is really fun and it's beautiful and it's classy and it's elegant — but college football is important. People live and die with college football."

Shooting a Tiger

Photographer Fred Vuich took two memorable pictures of Tiger Woods — one of him hitting out of a fairway bunker surrounded by fans during the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, and a cover shot of Woods hitting his tee shot on the 18th hole at Augusta National during the 2001 Masters.

"Luck plays a lot into getting a great shot. The picture of Tiger out of the bunker — Robert (Beck) was in the spot I preferred to be in. I got there late so I took a spot opposite Beck. And my angle turned out better.

"The picture of Tiger at Augusta was planned from Wednesday. So we planned on using a special camera. It was before digital. I was shocked to see the photo on the cover of the magazine. That it got the kind of shelf life that it has. The Tiger cover was one frame. It was a camera without a motor drive. It was manual focus and it was one frame."

four writers tee up short hits on what it takes to write a compelling story (including Phil Mickeison's major moment)

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