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| Author | : Paul Laubach |
| Publisher | : Elevate Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2015-06-09 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1937498727 |
In June 2010, Paul Laubach made the unfortunate decision to play all of the top 100 golf courses available to the public, according to Golf Magazine. Spread over 45 months, he managed to complete his goal despite numerous weather, course maintenance and other logistical issues...not to mention his own “senior moment.” The journey covered 87,814 air miles and another 17,051 by automobile. During the trek he suffered two frozen shoulders, a bad lower back, golfer's elbow (left), tennis elbow (right), three major sunburns, hundreds of mosquito bites, poison oak, plus numerous cuts and bruises chasing errant shots into the woods, desert and other prickly flora. None of this was as painful as the cost associated with losing 117 Pro V1s. A confirmed golf addict and cheapskate, he is now chronicling his adventures for his heirs (who will probably get nothing else, as he wasted the estate on this boondoggle).
| Author | : Andrew Wood |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-11-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692974834 |
The story of a golf professional trying to make it through life at a private club with 521 bosses, a Cougar nymphomaniac, one good member and a board president intent on his demise. This story follows the hilarious everyday life of a golf professional through lessons, committees, PGA section meetings, club rules, demo days and golf trips. Plus, the daily grind of trying to please over 500 members who complain to him about everything from the speed of the greens to the home owner's association, along with hundred and one other things over which he has no control. At breaking point, he starts replying to emails and requests the way he'd really like to reply, which is a far cry from what they taught him at PGA business school! While the president's intent to remove him, and install his son in law is relentless our pro has more tricks up his sleeve than the assistant pros who hide his inventory or the slick suits from the big management companies that think they can waltz in and steal his job. Success is always the best revenge!
| Author | : David Gould |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2002-01-16 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1429974427 |
In 1999, the PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament--known to many as Q School--found itself sitting on 35 years of unique history. Q School Confidential chronicles this tournament's deep, dense story of heartbreak, black humor, back-room politics and magnificent golf under dire circumstances. Using the 1998 PGA TOUR Qualifying School finals as his backdrop, golf writer David Gould recounts for the first time ever the history of the pro tour's annual qualifier, with revealing anecdotes about raw rookies, aging veterans and every dreamer in between. The vintage stories in the Q School's near and distant past tell of emotional and physical breakdown---and courage, as well---under pressure: Jim Carter's self-confessed "choke stories" of 1990 and 1992; Mark McCumber's recurring lost-scorecard nightmare; Peter Jacobsen's ordeal with a cheater on the Mexican border; Jim McLean's bizarre arrest on the qualifier's eve; and Mac O'Grady's violent celebration of his long-awaited Q School success. The players captured in these pages turn white with panic, vomit their breakfast, sleep in their cars, practice on interstate ranges, lose golf shoes, forget contact lenses and make fateful decisions based on faulty information. Sifting back through several eras, Gould explains the innocent aims of the first Q Schools and uncovers the tournament's pivotal role in the momentous split-up of the PGA and the PGA TOUR. He examines the difficult question of how professional golf should go about bringing in new players and letting former players regain their privileges. In the voices of forgotten or never-known tour pros from the 1970s, he narrates the frustrating "rabbit era" that Q School helped create, and revisits the infamous "breakaway Q School" of 1968. In notes that accompany this book's exclusive year-by-year scoring records, the author picks out hidden turning points, bits of trivia and strange coincidences in the lives of tour players past and present. These profiles and snapshots of the earliest Q School survivors and the most recent graduates, as well, are woven together in a warm, engaging and insightful narrative. Q School Confidential, sometimes bleak, sometimes triumphant, provides the first and only inside look at a cruel and unusual tournament that many consider golf's toughest test of all.
| Author | : Christina Kim |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2010-05-01 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1608193152 |
Christina Kim is the brashest, bawdiest, funniest player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. Golf fans know her for her colorful wardrobe, even more colorful on-course antics, and an explosive game. But in this rollicking account of the 2009 season, Kim invites readers deep into her life, providing an intimate diary of a young woman's struggles on and off the golf course, and revealing the glory and heartbreak of life on the tour. Once known as a prodigy who shot a 62 in her first LPGA event some six years ago, Kim has newly rededicated herself to realizing her potential, and she takes readers between the ropes for all the action, including her nail-biting near misses at two major championships. She also goes inside the team room at the Solheim Cup, revealing the hijinks and late-night gab sessions that bonded the victorious U.S. team. Along the way we get intimate portraits of her close friends on tour, including tour leaders such as Michelle Wie, Lorena Ochoa, Paula Creamer, Morgan Pressel, and Natalie Gulbis. In this courageous telling, no topic is out-of-bounds, as Kim dishes about the LPGA's sexual mores, the culture clash of an American-based tour increasingly dominated by Koreans, the tumultuous economic forces squeezing the players, and her own battles with body image and her traditional upbringing. Winsome and good-natured, but never afraid of a laugh line or choice profanity, Christina Kim provides a must-read for anyone who loves golf or has wondered about the inner self of a professional athlete.
| Author | : Susan Fornoff |
| Publisher | : Gottagogolf |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2013-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780989954006 |
A 35-year-old career bachelorette decided her dating style needed an overhaul, so she took up golf to meet men on manicured greens instead of in smoky bars. Of course she met men. But she also made friends. And found a new vocation that took her to the most beautiful resorts and most famous courses in the world. None of it had anything to do with being good at the game. "Golf slut," was what she called herself -- based on the description comedian Tommy Smothers used lovingly in describing his wife: "will play anywhere, anytime, with anyone." But as moment after moment unfolded with gifts, lessons and surprises, she came to realize her relationship with the game transcended labels. In her memoir "Confessions of a Golf Slut: A memoir of life, love, and The Game," trailblazing sports journalist Susan Fornoff tells the story of how golf became her warm blanket through the heartbreaking loss of divorce and death, her compass for a hilarious journey through online dating, her guiding light in the murky tunnel of midlife career change. "Confessions of a Golf Slut" is you'll-laugh-you'll-cry chick lit -- spun with driver, hybrid, wedge and putter. A poignant and often funny golf sister to the likes of "Julie and Julia" and "Eat, Pray, Love," "Confessions of a Golf Slut" relates the metaphors of the beloved, centuries-old game in context with human foibles and frailties. Within the narrative framework of the search for love, it addresses universal themes such as self-examination, perseverance, friendship and, ultimately, forgiveness. Chick lit, yes - and, for men, a peek into the other team's playbook. It's not a spoiler to reveal that the author never masters the game of golf. But her passion for the game will no doubt resonate among the women who already play -- an estimated 5 million in the United States alone, with another 38 million women reported to have interest -- and inspire those who don't yet play to pick up a 7-iron and give it a big kiss.
| Author | : Johnson O'Toole |
| Publisher | : Authors On Line Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2003-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780755200795 |
A candid, humerous and often moving account of one man's secret life of homosexuality in a era when to be 'gay' risked not only being a social outcast but imprisonment if caught. The author's exploits and search for sexual happiness and expression start as a child on the Indian sub-continent, move on to his family's return to an austere post-war Britain, an unhappy and perhaps unjust dismissal from a promising army career in the Far East, through to the realisation that normal family life was never going to be an attainable goal in his global search for romantic bliss. From the shores of West Africa, where he finds true love, to Australia and the flesh pots of the Middle East, this a true human interest story of our time told with passion, humour and pathos. A real insight into a way of life that had to be secreted from the world for most of the author's life.
| Author | : George Plimpton |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2016-08-04 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1473523249 |
From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete – of average skill at best – joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton spent a month of self-imposed torture on the PGA tour to find out, meeting amateurs, pros, caddies, officials, fans and hangers-on along the way. In The Bogey Man we find golf legends, adventurers, stroke-saving theories, superstitions, and other golfing lore, and best of all, Plimpton’s thoughts and experiences – frustrating, humbling and, sometimes, thrilling – from the first tee to the last green.
| Author | : Andrew Lohse |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2014-08-26 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1250033675 |
An account of a Dartmouth student's experiences pledging Sigma Alpha Epsilon and how his promising college life soon became a dangerous cycle of binge drinking and public humiliation.
| Author | : Brad Myers |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 2017-11-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781979985062 |
If you want to learn how to play golf or have played for a long time and want to improve your game, understanding a few setup basics is a must. Awarding Winning PGA of America Golf Professional Brad Myers is here to teach you every step of the way in Book One of his brand new series - Golf Shots and Unicorns. Brad has been successful teaching all levels of players (from pure beginners to professionals) how to reach their desired playing goals. This includes players who just want to play with friends and family, players who have won Men's/Women's Club Championships as well as players who have gone on to play Division 1 college golf. Brad wants to help you play the golf that you want to play. By starting out with a fantastic story on why trying to hit a straight golf shot is like trying to find a unicorn, Brad welcomes you onto his lesson tee and uses his humor and past experiences to explain the ins and outs of how to properly setup to a golf ball. Just as if you were with Brad for a live lesson, he starts off by explaining the parts of the golf club, the various ways to grip or hold the club, how to take a proper stance and how to find your best ball position. The journey of playing golf is made of multiple paths. The good news is that there are multiple ways to play good golf, and Brad can help you choose the best path for you. Check out Brad's website for lots of great tips, tools and tricks - www.ballflightacademy.com PRAISE FOR BRAD MYERS, PGA "Coaching nationally ranked tennis teams for years while at Tulane University for 13 years, I know what it takes to coach at a high-level. Brad has been able to take my game to levels that I did not know that I had. That is what a good coach does." - Robert Klein - Former Tulane Men's Head Tennis Coach "Brad's passion for teaching clearly shows in his depth of knowledge about the mechanics of the golf swing. I am always excited to see what I am able to learn from him each time we talk." - Ryan Briggs - PGA Professional - Whispering Pines Golf Club - US Top 100 Golf Course
| Author | : Michael Hebron |
| Publisher | : Smithtown Landing Country Club |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780962021435 |
