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Fine Green Line: My Year of Golf Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours
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by John Newport
Sales Rank: 851211
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
Published by: Broadway May 8, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0767901177
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0767901178
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 10.7 ounces
Product Review
Some stories regularly refresh themselves. The Walter Mittyesque tale of the dreamer chasing the dream is one of them. In The Fine Green Line, John Paul Newport's dream is a golf dream, and he relates it with good grace and humor, quite willing to analyze its inherent improbability and interpret the mysteries at its core. In his mid-30s, recently remarried, a new father, and playing to a handicap of less than 3, he sets out to focus on his game for a year, take his lumps on the minor-league tours, see how much he can improve, and finally test how he and his game stand up by trying to qualify for the PGA Tour via the murderous Q School tournament in the fall.
Like all worthwhile journeys, the destination is of less consequence than the trip itself. Newport's is a long and strange one, filled with small successes, big humiliations, reality checks, the kindness of strangers, and a colorful cast of wannabes on the golfing fringe, guys who live from week to week out of the back of their cars. Ultimately, Newport must come to terms with his own obsession with the game as he tries to figure out exactly where the fine green line of his title falls. He searches on and off the course for this abstract and invisible--and, he finally accepts, insurmountable--barrier that keeps the game's aristocracy on one side and those who can post the occasional 69 on the other. It's a search that takes him within himself and to anyone--such as Golf in the Kingdom's Michael Murphy, respected teaching pro Michael Hebron, swing doctors, and psychologists--who might be able to shed enlightenment, improve his swing, or focus his mind with laserlike intensity. It also sets off on some pretty memorable rounds of golf and the kind of grip-it-and-rip-it soul-searching that every hacker who's ever hit a ball with purpose--and shanked it anyway--is bound to understand. --Jeff Silverman
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Reminiscent of Harry Hurt III's Chasing the Dream, journalist Newport's chronicle of a year of golf is the latest, but not the greatest, of the Q-School sagas. Newport's narrative is driven by two objectives: to see how much better he can get at golf in 12 months' time (he starts with a 2.7 handicap) and to test himself at the end of the year by entering the PGA Tour's qualifying school. He tackles the first objective by taking lessons from respected teacher Michael Hebron, who points out plenty of flaws in Newport's swing, as well as the fundamental flaw in his objective: there's just no way he's going to improve his game all that much inside a yearAno one could. But Newport will not be dissuaded, so he embarks on a long series of mini-Tour events to get a sense of playing under pressure. Many of the people the author meets at these tournaments are interesting, but it grows tiresome to read his nearly shot-by-shot accounts of dozens of butchered rounds and holes, all lashed together with doses of desperate wisdom, self-pity, disgust and anger. By the time he finally reaches Q-School, the reader knows Newport is going to self-destruct, which he does, denying the book a satisfying resolution. Newport's objectives are compelling. It's unfortunate that his experiences weren't commensurate. (June)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
I'm an avid reader on golf. Doesn't matter whether it be instruction, biography, history, etc. I've got a growing collection. This book will have a cherished place, because it's such an honest, insightfully written epic of an average golfer who finds out what the upper reaches of the sport are all about. Finding myself playing to much the same level of the author, I knew enough from being around some mid-level echelon golfers that one dedicated year to try and crack this game would not be enough. One would have to start much earlier than that and want it far worse. JP is a neat guy, one that many of us would enjoy so much treading around the links trying to keep each other playing our best, but enjoying whatever we're given that day in this humbling game. JP is pro league writer, and his ability to transmit what was happening inside is not only articulate and entertaining, but it to this reviewer is so admirable, not trying to embellish or spin to portray the disappointing results any different than their raw numbers. I'll take away from this great read some unforgettable remembrances ... promoter Buddy's unplayable lie invention, the Skill-O-Meter analysis, the MJ incident with failure by one shot, etc. Great stuff for us who love this game and collect incidents like this for the 19th.
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