Houghton Mifflin and Gotham Books are publishing their golf books just in time for National Golfers day on April 10, and yet while father's day isn't for another two months, both titles highlight the relationship between golfers and their fathers.

Houghton's Golf Dads: Fathers, Sons and the Greatest Game by Curt Sampson looks at the many relationships in the pro golfing world between the pros and their fathers from Ben Hogan, who after witnessing his father's suicide later found a father figure in a club regular, to golf prodigy Michelle Wie and how her always embarrassing "daddie caddie," Byong Wook, learned to stay outside the ropes. The New York Times best-selling author and former club and touring golf professional Curt Sampson was inspired to research and illuminate this special relationship that takes place on the green after losing his own golf dad in 2005.

Gotham's Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son by Kevin Cook looks at this legendary Father/Son golf relationship. Old Tom, born in 1821, in St. Andrews, Scotland (the cradle of golf) became the champion golfer of Scotland and a national hero only to be outshone by his son, Tommy Morris, who was the Tiger Woods of the nineteenth century. Their epic rivalry and Young Tommy's early demise is detailed in Kevin Cook's USGA's 2007 Herbert Warren Wind Book Award winning tale.