www.golfbug.tv Golf Bug is a the world's first internet based free-to-view golf channel offering 24 hour coverage.     Book recommendations & reviews We select some of our favourite golf books.     www.virtual-caddy.com An innovative and functional web-download service that allows you to preview and plot a hole-by-hole strategy around some of the UK's best golf courses before playing them. It features almost 100 courses with photographs, directional pointers and commentary. Review the Ryder Cup course at the K Club by using the promotional code "as1agolf48" which allows free access for 48 hours for users of this web-site.     www.guardian.co.uk The Guardian has excellent sports coverage and this link will take you direct to the online golf pages. Their chief golf writer is Lawrence Donegan who wrote "Four Iron in the Soul" (published in the US as "Maybe it Should Have Been a Three Iron"), a funny, soulful account of a year spent caddying for the journeyman pro Ross Drummond on the European Tour.     www.geoffshackleford.com Without a doubt golf writer and course designer Geoff Shackleford runs the best blog in golf. He must spend hours in his den every day piecing together disparate links from the seething cauldrons of golf journalism.     www.pgatour.com News from the world's professional tours in a RSS format that allows you to scan the headlines without suffering nausea from spinning golf ball adverts, zooming captions and flickering promos.     www.top100golfcourses.co.uk Keith Baxter's web-site dedicated to the gathering and analysis of the opinions of the finest golf courses in the UK. Companion web-site to his excellent reference book of the same name.     www.flickr.com A montage of some images of Scottish courses to be reviewed in the forthcoming Autumn 2006 edition of FIRST SHOT. Try the slide-show function.     www.classicsofgolf.com A small, independent on-line publisher that is keeping some of the seminal old texts in print and often in the original style of binders. A package of Golf Architecture by Mackenzie, The Links by Hunter, The Architectural Side of Golf by Wethered & Simpson and Scotland's Gift to Golf by Macdonald can be purchased from them on-line for US$144 and makes a good present.     www.doakgolf.com Course designer Tom Doak once spent a whole year studying British golf courses including a spell as a caddy at St. Andrews. He lives in Traverse City, Michegan so he can play a Alister Mackenzie course (Crystal Downs). In the Pacific region you can play his courses in Tasmania (Barnbougle Dunes), New Zealand (Cape Kidnappers) Victoria (St. Andews Beach) and Oregon (Pacific Dunes). The website also allows you to read some of his essays on course architecture.     www.golftourismaustralia.com This web-site is very helpful if you are journeying to Australia to play golf. For example, as long as you are a member of a golf club somewhere and have a registered handicap you can play the following Melbourne courses by booking through this site: Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath, Metropolitan, Commonwealth, Huntingdale, Yarra Yarra, Victoria, National.     www.golf-in-japan.com A good English language resource.     www.asiantour.com The home site for the professional golf tour in Asia which features detailed profiles of all the players.     www.golf007.com Good information about courses in Hong Kong and the South China region. All though almost all clubs in China are private, most accept day players. Golf 007 arranges cross-border itineraries for thousands of golf-starved Hong-Kongers every month. It also hosts vibrant chat channels where the disgruntled can unburden.     www.asiangolfmonthly.com The region's leading English language golf publication.     www.thaigolfer.com A good resource if you are looking to play in Thailand     www.vietnamtravel.co.uk Catering to golfing and travel enthusiasts, Vietnam Golf arrange golfing holidays and tours around Vietnam.     www.hkga.com The home site of the Hong Kong Golf Association.     www.golfhelp.com A specialist search engine.     www.golfasian.com Golf holidays, tours and tee reservations organised by the Thailand golf experts     www.amazon.com We are an associate of the internet's top bookseller. Click here to go through to the amazon.com site.     www.golfsmith.com Golf clubs, ball and gear online with a low-price guarantee.     www.edwinwatts.com A reliable source of keenly priced golfing goods with worldwide shipping.     www.golfodyssey.com Objective course reviews available on subscription from this US based publisher. Their reviewers travel incognito and don't accept advertising so as to remain independent.     www.golfselect.com.au Australia's leading corporate golf and golf travel organiser. Their strong relationships with the leading private clubs means that they can help put together great itineraries for golf holidays "down-under".     www.iseekgolf.com A leading Australian golf site with an entertaining chat channel. Course designer Tony Cashmore pops up regularly in a forum and his insights are worthy of attention.