A colorful and informative coffee-table book, Golf in Greece inspires the golf traveler to visit Greece. Photographs highlight the colorful palette of the golf courses, from a desert course design in a typical mountainous Cretan environment, to a beachfront course offering stunning views of the Ionian Sea and the historic Navarino Bay. The book also includes historical and cultural information about each local area, as well as popular wines and local attractions. CONNIE BURKE retired from academia as a Professor of English Literature in 1992. Since then, she has travelled worldwide meeting extraordinary people, visiting fabulous places and writing about it all. Co-founder of Writers' Workshops International, LLC, she is co-editor of Venturing in Southern Greece: The Vatika Odysseys; Venturing in Ireland: Quest for the Modern Celtic Soul; and Venturing in Italy: Travels in Puglia, Land between Two Seas.
For ten years she served as Captain of the Hellenic Ladies Golf Club of Greece. She organized over one hundred amateur golf tournaments and three consecutive PGA tournaments for the European Seniors Tour. It is her love of the game in all its facets that have inspired her to write a book about golf in Greece and to put Greece on the map as a popular golf/tourist destination.
BARBARA J. EUSER is a former political officer with the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State. As a director of the International Community Development Foundation, she has worked on projects in Bosnia, Somaliland, Zimbabwe, India and Nepal. Her articles and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies. She is the author and editor of ten books and co-founder of Writers’ Workshops International, LLC. She divides her time between California and her olive farm in Lakonia, Greece. A new golf enthusiast, when she is not writing or traveling, she may be found on the golf course practicing her swing.
