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Augusta: Home of the Masters Tournament
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by Steve Eubanks
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Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
Published by: Broadway; Rep edition March 2, 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0767902157
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0767902151
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 10.9 ounces
Product Review
When Augusta was first published in 1997, Steve Eubanks was summarily fired from his job as a club professional in Alabama. Given golf's tight fraternity, it's no surprise. With skillful and thorough reportage, he was the first to throw open, with detail, the dark corners of Augusta National's musty, humorless, arrogant closets. Augusta, updated to include Tiger Woods's masterful defeat of the course in 1997, chronicles the story of a private enclave of power, privilege, and prejudice that still seems to operate under the tight fist of co-founder Clifford Roberts more than twenty years after his suicide. Even so, the great tournament held on its grounds--the Masters--remains a true jewel in the international sporting crown. Eubanks is not afraid to juggle the apparent contradiction of cause and effect; in fact, it is his willingness to do just that that keeps Augusta several strokes under par.
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From Library Journal
If there were a Mecca for golf in America, players would undoubtedly turn toward Augusta, GA, to worship. Beginning as a Depression-era project, the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters tournament it hosts have become preeminent in U.S. golf. The history of this club is steeped in Southern tradition and political influence. Eubanks, a former PGA member, provides an insider's knowledge of club incidents, including the recruitment of General Eisenhower into the Republican Party, the shooting of an African American youngster who was fishing in the wrong spot, the suicide of one of the club's founders, the apparent racism that brought on the wrath of the Atlanta City Council, and the ascendancy of Tiger Woods. Narrator Tom Parker provides an entertaining account of this intriguing American phenomenon. Recommended for golf fans.ARay Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L., IA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Reader Reviews
It seems there's a new "unprecedented" book on Augusta and the Masters coming out every April these days, but this one was the first of its "investigative" ilk and it remains the best. Anything I had ever read in book form about Augusta/the Masters before this read like so much puff because they were written by authors who wanted to remain friends with Augusta's secretive powers-that-be. Eubanks examines and explores Augusta National with a lot of gusto and tells me dozens of things I didn't know about this place. Like the hush-hush shooting incident involving some black youths who had trespassed on the course just so they could take a dip in one of the ponds. Or how the myth surrounding Charlie Sifford's alleged exclusion from the Masters field by racist manipulators assumes facts Eubanks proves wrong. Or Bert Yancey's real obsession with the course itself. Or the suicide by the ticket scalper in 1997. There's also a lot of nice stuff about Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, as well as a chapter devoted to Ike and how his presidency was pretty much launched in the inner bowels of Augusta National's clubhouse. Buy this book--it's wonderful!
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