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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the overlooked Jack Fleck still playing the course, NBC-TV proclaimed that the legendary Ben Hogan had won his record fifth U.S. Open and signed off from San Francisco. Undaunted, the forgotten Iowan rallied to overcome a nine-shot deficit over the last three rounds--still a U.S. Open record--and made a pressure-packed putt to tie Hogan on the final hole of regulation play. The two men then squared off in a tense, 18-hole playoff from which...
123) Tommy's honor: the story of old Tom Morris and young Tom Morris, golf's founding father and son
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Why Not Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1913 the world's finest golfers gathered at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, to compete in golf's national championship, the U.S. Open. Joining them was a little-known amateur, twenty-year-old Francis Ouimet, who lived across the street from the course and had taught himself to play by sneaking onto the fairways with the only golf club he owned. He competed against his idols in front of a crowd that grew from a handful of spectators...
127) Hole in one
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A celebration of three legendary golfers describes how the sport deteriorated into virtual non-existence before the trio revitalized its popularity by setting records while transforming how the game was played and regarded.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1973, a who's who of golf's greats gathered at the Oakmont Country Club for the U.S. Open. Among those favored to win were Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Instead, Johnny Miller--a 26-year-old one-time phenom from San Francisco--astonished the golfing world by edging out the legends and crafting a record-setting 63 to win by a single stroke. Featuring extensive archival and video research and candid interviews with leading golfers of the era,...
130) Spring fever
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : silent., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Golf nut Jack Kelly gets a chance to play golf at an exclusive club. There he pursues Allie Monte telling her he is a wealthy golf pro. When she learns the truth she'll have nothing to do with him. In the end love prevails as Kelly becomes a golf champion and wins the girl as well.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the exceptional life and times of LPGA founder Babe Didrikson, the Texas woman who achieved All-American status in basketball, won gold medals in track and field in the 1932 Olympics, and became the first woman to play against men in a PGA tournament.
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