A Passion for Golf: The Best of Golf Writing Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Passion for Golf: The Best of Golf Writing Book

No book that fails to offer tee times to the prose of Bernard Darwin and Herbert Warren Wind can truly call itself the "Best" of golf writing; you might as well try navigating Riviera or Oakmont with no driver or putter in your bag. Still, given its handicap, A Passion for Golf posts a respectable score. Its selection of pieces is wide-ranging and surprisingly eclectic: fiction by the hard-boiled James Ellroy, the aristocratic J.P. Marquand, and the mystical Michael Murphy hit as straight and true as essays by Bobby Jones, Thomas Boswell, Harvey Penick, John Updike, and Rick Reilly. Selections from Arnold Haultain's 1908 classic The Mysteries of Golf almost make up for the lost strokes of no Darwin and Wind, and Alistair Cooke's delightful commentary on the tribulations facing the builders of the (then) Soviet Union's first golf course more than cancels out the inclusion of a bit from Bob Hope's sappy Confessions of a Hooker. --Jeff SilvermanRead More

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  • Product Description

    Spanning the last five decades, these thoughtfully selected pieces from the best golf writers of the modern era show that no sport has mirrored American culture and society as closely as golf. Publishers Weekly called it "astute," "hilarious," and "touching." Schuyler Bishop's unique personal introductions showcase the turning points in the game, revealing the inseparable relationship between golf and life. Here are timeless classics from Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen, gripping pieces by the great champions Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson, plus John Updike on the Masters and Rick Reilly's look at Tiger Woods.

  • 0312190271
  • 9780312190279
  • 1 June 1998
  • Thomas Dunne Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 349
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