My Greatest Day in Golf: The Legends of Golf Recount Their Greatest Moments - Hardcover

McCullough, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312252595 ISBN 13: 9780312252595

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Twenty-five of the best golfers in the world recall their best days in the sport, including highlights from the careers of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player.

About this title

About the Author:

Bob McCullough is the author of six books: My Greatest Day in Football, My Greatest Day in Golf, My Greatest Day in NASCAR, My Greatest Day in Baseball, 1946-1997, New York Running Guide (with Miles Jaffe), and Washington, D.C. Running Guide (with Don Carter.) His writing has also appeared in the Boston Globe, SPORT magazine, the Boston Phoenix, the Los Angeles Times, and a wide variety of other publications. He is the primary jazz record reviewer for the Globe and has written about sports, arts and entertainment, architecture, and real estate. He also reviews books for Publishers Weekly, the Globe, the Phoenix, and SPORT. His two newest ventures are Inside NASCAR and writing for MSNBC's website.

From Publishers Weekly:

Nothing bores a golfer more than listening to another golfer relate his greatest round, shot by shot. Sports journalist and author McCullough (My Greatest Day in Baseball, 1946-1997; My Greatest Day in NASCAR) has recorded the recollections of 25 of the best from the last half-century of the game, including Tommy Bolt, Lee Elder, Ray Floyd, Steve Melnyk, Arnold Palmer and Calvin Peete but even the greatest golfers do not make the best raconteurs. Often, the golfers fail to remember all the details (and as editor, McCullough disappointingly fails to fill in the gaps). A lot of the drama is lost, and the stories fall flat. A stellar exception is Jack Nicklaus's vivid retelling of his win at the 1986 Masters (excerpted from his autobiography). Avid golfers who are also careful readers may pick up tips to improve their game strategy, but much depends on their familiarity with a particular course, as Nick Price demonstrates with his recollection of playing the 16th at Ternberry, the hole that won him the 1982 British Open: "I hit a good driver down the middle of the fairway, and I had about eighty-eight yards, and the pin was in a very, very, very precarious placement. It was just over on the left-hand side, and it was just over a berm. I don't know how familiar you are with the hole, but there's a berm, and anything that is short would just roll back into the berm, and that was a five, maybe even a six." The most satisfying parts of the book are the champions' thoughts on the state of the game. Lee Elder comments on blacks in golf then and now, Hale Irwin talks about golfers' changing attitudes, Steve Melnyk considers the hacker versus the pro and all of them reflect on being treated differently after winning a big tournament. (Apr. 23)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312252595
• ISBN 13: 9780312252595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225