This anthology of the best golf sports writing focuses on legendary final rounds - great writing on great golf. Here is Grantland Rice on Bobby Jones at the 1923 U.S. Open; Herbert Warren Wind on Tom Watson's improbable chip that won the 1982 Open; Robert Sommers on Johnny Miller's dramatic Open victory in 1973; Time Rosaforte on Tiger Woods' triumphant Masters in 1997. Plus Red Smith, Wilfred Sheed, Alistair Cooke, John Feinstein, John Updike, and more. 'Golf is not really a game at all, but a perverse obsession designed to inflict pain on its practitioners,' claims Peter Andrews in Golf Digest. But here, gathered together, will appear many of the joys and thrills of this worldwide frustration, or sport. The brilliant prose of Herbert Warren Wind, Thomas Boswell, Rick Reilly and a host of others nail all these golden moments. So pull up an easy chair and join the reader's gallery as you bask in this glorious obsession. Length: 145 pages.
Price: 22.76
No more 9-to-5 angst, as hours once wasted managing, marketing, manufacturing, and accounting can now be spent putting, driving, and chipping. From how to set up a course in the conference room to facing a stairwell hazard - over or down? - Office Golf makes a job seem like something you wouldn't mind doing for a living. This very humorous yet practical book features subjects from Tee Time vs. Company Time to 19th Hole Drinks in the Supply Closet. Sanctioned by the O.O.G.A. (Official Office Golf Association), here is everything the employed golfer needs to transform hallways into fairways and water coolers into water hazards. Includes full instructions and rules, dozens of illustrations, punch-out holes, a historical time line, and strategies for not getting caught by non-playing managers. Because what you do for a living shouldn't get in the way of what you do to feel alive! Highlights include: Spotting Fellow Office Golfers - the 26 tell-tale signs. Common hand signals used
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A History of the PGA Tour. This rollicking, anecdotal history of golf's PGA tour traced from 1895 to the mid 70's when the Tour was big money golf, huge purses, endorsement contracts and all the celebrity of the modern day sport. Length: 303 pages.
Price: 19.34
In Ben Wright's autobiography, Good Bounces & Bad Lies, the long-time observer, writer, and commentator presented readers with 45 years of golf experiences. The subjects of his tales included Jack Nicklaus, the Masters, Greg Norman, Cliff Roberts, CBS, Bobby Jones, Ken Venturi, Ireland and the Old Course at St. Andrews. In his new book, Speak Wright, Ben provides his audience with amusing and informative explanations of some of the golf world's most popular and colorful terms, phrases and descriptions. Some you may already heard, some you may have never heard of in your life. What's for sure, is that only Ben Wright could say them like this. Length: 165 pages.
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To a golfer the 'dance floor' means the putting green, but in the early days of pro golf, 'getting to the dance floor' meant joining the Tour-and enduring bad food, constant travel and infrequent pay. Al Barkow is the guide to introducing twenty-four subjects who share their battle tested wisdom and hard earned philosophy, spoken by old men who have separated the wheat from the chaff. Dance Floor is a collection of some of the best thinking about the game of golf ever recorded. The wise golf professionals include Henry Picard saying to Ben Hogan, 'If you have a true swing, the harder you hit it, the better you'll hit it.' The section on Jack Burke makes it clear why he has been a lighthouse for players including Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw, Steve Elkington, and Phil Mickelson. When he tells of Hogan's searing advice, 'You think this is a game of stick and ball? It isn't. It's a game of adjustments, a game of constant change and adjustment,' the reader feels as if he's drinking f
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The Complete Guide to Mastering the Green The king of the short game and founder of the World Putting Championship now takes on the green in the follow-up to his hugely popular Short Game Bible. Packed with step-by-step drawings and photographs of incredible scientifically proven techniques, this is truly the master class for putting - yet any player at any level will benefit. Length: 386 pages.
Price: 35.24
Every player dreams of becoming a professional golfer and playing the PGA Tour. Unfortunately it isn't always easy. The Fine Green Line by John Paul Newport details what happens when a man obsessed with golf leaves home for a year to pursue his dream. The author wondered what was it that allowed some golf pros to stay at the top of the PGA Tour golf rankings year after year while others with seemingly just as much talent got stuck in the 'bush leagues?' In pursuit of some answers, John Paul Newport spent a year playing mini tour events himself, the dark, comic underbelly of professional golf. This is a world in which even highly talented players sometimes live out of their cars, sneak food from country clubs, and gamble away their meager earnings in an attempt to stay afloat. Traveling and competing throughout Florida, California, the Northeast, and the Dakotas, refining his game and consulting numerous 'head coaches' and psychologists, Newport realized his number one goal was to s
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A golf based story of the life and times of one of the most recognized players in the world. It covers Payne Stewart's incredible career from his 'Tinkerbelle' days to him becoming one of the most respected players on the Tour. Interviews with thirty people who knew him best; tour players, friends, and family will help you laugh and cry about his days as the life-of-the-party and his new found Christian faith leading up to that eventful, sad day in October 1999. Length: 235 pages.
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Golf enthusiasts and lovers of a good comic tale will be delighted by this fresh and frolicking new novel. With farcical fun, readers are given a unique and ironic inside glimpse into the world of standup comedy as a group of comics plans a charity golf tournament. Plans for the charity tournament move from the ridiculous to downright illegal. Promises that can't possibly be kept are made by various comedians to local businesses regarding sponsorship of the tournament. Celebrities from around the world are 'scheduled' to attend. Money that is supposed to go to charities ends up lining participants' pockets instead. Set in Houston, Texas, this hilarious novel comes very close to killing the comedy clubs of the city. To quote the tournament organizer, Dale Chase, 'It's a miracle that only one person went to jail.' Ironically, Dale's father is the police chief of Houston. Filled with outrageous characters-most of whom are loosely based on comics the author has met over the years-th
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Golf writers are in touch with the soul of the game. With charm, wit, and wisdom, they write to help golfers at all levels hack through the vines of frustration and confusion. Writers explore the mystique of the game. The Texas Twosome leads off The First Chapbook for Golfers. Exclusively for this book, Bud Shrake offers a wonderful story about the day legendary Harvey Penick missed lunch and a lesson with famed writer James Michener. Dan Jenkins follows with a piece that will evoke grins and grousing from golfers who have the PGA Tour take over their club to stage a Tour event. Bud Shrake, of course, co-wrote the Harvey Penick books, starting with the Little Red Book. Is there a similarity here? You bet! This book is a treasure chest of golf stories from well-known authors who are anything but synonymous with the game of golf-among them A.A. Milne, Rube Goldberg, John Updike, Ian Flemming, P.G. Wodehouse, Art Buchwald, and more. Tips and insights abound from those who have pla
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For a century and a half, the best players in the world have, once a year, attempted to beat the weather, the pressure, and one of the toughest courses in the world at the British Open. Curt Sampson, the bestselling author of Hogan and The Masters, draws a affectionate and definitive portrait of this legendary tournament, drawing from its rich past to its exciting present. The thread of Royal and Ancient is the 1999 championship-the most astonishing four days in British Open history. Sampson follows the travails at Carnoustie of Steve Elkington, the icy chemist, Andrew McGee, the struggling hopeful, and Jean Van de Velde during his dramatic collapse on the final day, probing both Van de Velde and his caddie for their emotional insights. The rich British Open history is reported like never before by this talented author. With an insider's knowledge and expertise, he draws the reader into a rarefied atmosphere of tradition and myth, telling the amazing-and sometimes heartbreaking-sto
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Golf etiquette and safety tips for children! Informative rhymes and vivid illustrations teach golf etiquette and course safety. From repairing your divot to being a good sport, the beginner golfer is introduced to proper conduct on the golf course. Length: 35 pages.
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Misadventures of a Novice Golfer In this irreverrent memoir we have a front-row seat as Jessica struggles to learn golf's etiquette, traditions, and complex rules. An often hilarious, always inspiriing tale of a woman's obsession with proving to herself that golf - played right - is a beautiful game ... at least for that moment. Length: 225 pages.
Price: 27.32
The Mystery of the Game Revisited Fascinating explorations lead to a range of exotic and unexpected places of mind, spirit, and geography. Cullen, co-author of Bob Rotella's Golf Is Not a Game Of Perfect, cleverly establishes entirely credible links between seemingly unrelated items - from the breathtaking prowess of Tiger Woods to the Iranian government's near banning of golf to how a baby's smile is related to our love of golf. Length: 238 pages.
Price: 25.08
50 Years of the Best, By the Editors of Golf Digest Magazine Golf Digest Magazine celebrates 50 years of the best courses, instruction, legends of the game, Golf Digest covers, great finishes at the majors, letters, and more. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, this book will sit handsomely in anyone's library. Length: 237 pages.
Price: 60.48
The complete guide to improving your game. Vivien Saunders, an authority of golf in general and on women's golf in particular, was the first European woman to qualify for the U.S. Tour and was British Ladies Open Champion in 1977. The Golf Handbook for Women takes you through every aspect of golf, whether you are just starting out or want to raise your game to a new level. Movements and shots are carefully detailed, using photographs and illustrations, with helpful suggestions on how to ensure you'll hit your best shot every time. Length: 221 pages.
Price: 20.52
Nine literary masters each contribute a chapter and together bring you a full round-robin of characters, not to mention a blistering drive of a story line that beats par with every page. Sex. Money. International terroism. And, of course, the ultimate question: Can a compact backswing save the world? A clubhouseful of acclaimed authors pass the baton (or the six-iron) to create an ensemble tour de force of suspense, romance, and hilarity on the links. Golf is not a team sport. But who says fiction can't be? Length: 242 pages.
Price: 27.32
