December means dome season. Even though there might be a few outdoor days left this weekend. The Golf Domes are open. The Buffalo Grove Golf & Sports Center is open for the winter, Links and Tee’s on Lake Street in Addison, and MCQ’s Dome in Bolingbrook are the premier golf domes of the Chicagoland Area. Visit them all.               ______________________________________________________________________

The Gog Blog Chicago’s #1 Online Golf News Source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. With Author Elisa Gaudet of the Two Good Rounds Series of three books. Recommended reading.

The holidays are coming and it’s time for you to start shopping for the favorite golfer or golfers in your life.

If you want to find something they can enjoy after the round, or when they snuggle up around the fire place this winter. You might want to find a good golf book for them to read.

There are several great golf books to read that are written on different topics from within the golf industry.

On the left, author Elisa Gaudet has now written three books in the “Two Good Rounds” series. Two Good Rounds, then TGR Superstars, and finally TGR Titans. All three are a great read and while checking out the books, see the website TwoGoodRounds.com for other golf related TGR items. Books from $15-20 range.

Dream Golf, the building of Bandon Dunes, and A Difficult Par on the life story of Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Recent Gog Blog reads include Dream Golf by Stephen Goodwin, who looks at the building of Mike Keiser’s Bandon Dunes Resort on the Pacific Ocean and the Oregon coast line.

This book starts with a look at Keiser and how begins his search to create a golf destination in America, that gives one the feeling of traveling to Scotland or Ireland.

Bandon Dunes didn’t just happen overnight, and Goodwin explains all the hurdles that Keiser and his various teams went through to create one of the best golf destination in the world. While the challenges might be different, one can only read this and start to wonder if Keiser and architects like Ben Crenshaw, Bill Coore and David McLay-Kidd are going through as they begin to create another Bandon Dunes, without water in central Wisconsin at Sand Valley. 376 pages $24.95, the new version with added chapters on Old MacDonald is recommended.

A DIFFICULT PAR the story of Robert Trent Jones, that does towards the end start to incorporate the entire family including both sons Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Rees Jones.

A Difficult Par starts off as tough read, (many pages of small print without many pictures) but the book gets harder to put down the further you get into it. James Hansen’s persistence to get everyone in the Jones family to finally open up with him is a story in itself, considering the turmoil and infighting the Jones family has gone through over the years.

If anyone has played Jones family courses, or wants a great background and look at the golf architecture industry, A Difficult Par is a long but must read. $32.50, 488 pages.

Shari’s Shot by Author James Ross, the latest golf suspense story the circles around the Prairie Bluffs Golf Club near St. Louis.

Author James Ross ( what, you were expecting Donald) has created a fun and believable cast of characters, that all enjoy the Prairie Bluffs Golf Course a fictional club on the Mississippi River near St.Louis.

This series of stories are suspenseful, fun, and let golfers enjoy the story line that includes a golf theme, that can be mixed in with legals issues, gambling, divorces, politics, murders and more.

In his latest addition to the series, Ross creates a character with a shot to win a million dollars on the golf course. While she dodges charges of having someone shot and killed off of it. Shari’s Shot is another great read, and a book that’s hard to put down right after you pick it up and start on page one. For more in the series of the Prairie Bluffs Golf Course series, please visit www.authorjamesross.com. The best series of golf suspense books on the market, that also includes Opur’s Blade, Pabby’s Score, Tuey’s Course, Finish Line, Lifetime Loser. Printed by Xlibris, 359 pages and cost is $29.66 hard cover, $17.99 paperback.