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In the ten years since Golf Anecdotes was first published, the game and its players have changed dramatically. This new edition, now with a foreword by Arnold Palmer and a new chapter covering the latest and greatest golf stars like Annika Sorenstam and Tiger Woods, reflects those changes. Readers can enjoy a sweeping look at this royal and ancient game, in a volume that is both an informal history as well as a vivid recounting of golf's most striking incidents and personalities.
Robert Sommers takes us on a grand tour that stretches from the game's dim origins in the 12th century right up to the modern PGA tour. Indeed, no other anecdote book offers this much historical depth or serves up such fascinating lore. We learn for instance that the first known golf match took place in 1504, between James IV of Scotland and the Earl of Bothwell. Sommers likewise paints a colorful portrait of golf in the era of the first professionals--Old Tom Morris, Allan Robertson, and Willie Park--describing the earliest rules, the equipment used, the most memorable events. Much of the book focuses on the 20th century. Here readers will find wonderful tales of Harry Vardon and Francis Ouimet, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, Joyce Wethered and Babe Zaharias, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Lee Trevino, Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam, Nick Faldo and Greg Norman, and of course, the amazing Tiger Woods. Thus the wide world of golf is presented, the first professionals and the latest stars, the double eagles and the double hits. Informative and highly entertaining, Golf Anecdotes will appeal to anyone who loves the game.

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Robert Sommers is the former editor and publisher of Golf Journal, the USGA's official publication.
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A cornucopia of tales about the game and its players, this compendium by the former editor of Golf Journal and author of The U.S. Open will entertain fairway fans. Sommers's historical approach moves from the presumed 12th-century origin of the game through the development of ever more sophisticated equipment and democracy on the course to the hegemony of the U.S. and eventual international parity among players. Some of the anecdotes are touching, such as those involving Bobby Jones's 23-year fight against terminal illness and the dying Babe Zaharias's last visit to the links, but many more are humorous: Ring Lardner's wisecracks while playing a round with then President Warren Harding, or the female champion who blew up when she read the inscription on a dog-show trophy mistakenly presented to her?Best Bitch in Show. Capping them all, however, is the reply of Ben Hogan when asked how to improve one's game: "Hit the ball closer to the hole."
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  • PublisherOxford University Press
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0195172655
  • ISBN 13 9780195172652
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number2
  • Number of pages416
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