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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first--and that means unraveling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda's golf-pro husband suddenly makes a run at the U.S. Open championship,...
3) Tiger Woods
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. Married to a Swedish beauty and the father of two young children, he was the winner of fourteen major golf championships and earning more than $100 million annually. But it was all a carefully crafted illusion. As it turned out, Woods had been living a double life for years -- one...
Author
Series
Season in Pinecraft volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sheltered yet adventurous, Betsy Detweiler is on a mission to get out of Kentucky and experience new things in life. What better place to start than with her friends in Pinecraft, Florida? When she walks onto the Snow Bird Golf Course to sign up for lessons, August Troyer is mesmerized. She's like no one he's ever met before, and as the only child of missionary parents, he's met a lot of people. Each intends to enjoy life to the fullest. They soon...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Raymond "Stick" Hart is happily married to a Cajun firecracker Dannie, has a rambunctious son, and is getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards. Best of all nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. Then one day the owner announces he's retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes...
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
For many of us, golf could be defined as long periods of aggravation, punctuated by brief but dazzling moments of clarity and reward. But when those brief, satisfying moments disappear, when the ball seems to have a mind of its own, when our well-grooved swings suffer a complete and total collapse, we find ourselves in that panicked state known as a 'slump'. The wonderful and terrifying thing about golf is that, regardless of skill level, a slump...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
164 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told through the lives of two characters, an eccentric rancher with a passion for teaching truth, and a young golf professional at the end of his rope looking to escape the pressures of the game, they represent each one of us in our various stages of growth. And through them we are reminded that, in life, we must be willing to coach and be coached--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Christina Kim is the brashest, bawdiest, funniest player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour. Golf fans love her for her colorful wardrobe, even more colorful language, and an explosive game. But in this rollicking account of the 2009 season, Kim invites readers deep into a young woman's struggles on and off the golf course.
12) Michelle Wie
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustraions ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photographs briefly describe the life of Michelle Wie and her career as a professional golfer"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ben Hogan's accomplishments on the golf course are the stuff of legends, but his life off it was exceedingly private. In this biography, author Tim Scott demonstrates why such public perception was not representative of Hogan's personality, offering a firsthand glimpse into the famous golfer's humor and sensitivity. Hogan wasn't perfect, and many of his fine qualities were never made public until now, as Tim Scott shares his personal experience with...
14) Follow the wind
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
15) The back nine
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
16) Men in green
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Was golf better (to use one of Tiger's favorite phrases) back in the day? In [this book], Michael Bamberger, who fell for the game as a teenager in its wild Sansabelt-and-persimmon 1970s heyday, goes on a quest to try to find out. The result is a candid, nostalgic, intimate portrait of golf's greatest generation--then and now"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
Description
The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers—and some celebrity duffers—with hilarious results.
Who knows golfers best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players...
Who knows golfers best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tiger Woods's long descent into a personal and professional hell reached bottom in the early hours of Memorial Day in 2017. Woods's DUI arrest that night came on the heels of a desperate spinal surgery, just weeks after he told close friends he might never play tournament golf again. His mug shot and alarming arrest video were painful to look at and, for Woods, a deep humiliation. The former paragon of discipline now found himself hopelessly lost...
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