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Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major
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by John Feinstein
Sales Rank: 67595
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List Price: $26.99
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
Published by: Little, Brown and Company May 2, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0316014303
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0316014304
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
From AudioFile
Q School is a series of qualifying tournaments required of many professional golfers before theyre eligible for the PGA tour. It is a realm of big-time heartaches and little-known players who harbor the dream of making a living playing tournament golf. This is clearly a book for golf junkies, maybe even golf wonks. Feinstein introduces such minute details about tournaments that at times its hard to follow his reading. And this is the abridged version! The stories themselves sometimes lack the kind of dramatic structure that lets the listener know when one ends and another starts. The author is acceptable as narrator, but his volume seldom varies, so its sometimes difficult to perceive when hes stressing a point. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
--This text refers to the
Audio CD
edition.
From Booklist
Q School (or, more formally, the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament) is golf's Long March, the winding road that aspiring professionals must negotiate if they are to qualify to play on the PGA Tour. Even though the players in the annual event are mainly unknowns, golf fans are fascinated by the grueling, heartbreaking nature of the competition--three separate tournaments during which more than 1,000 aspirants are winnowed down to thirty qualifiers, the survivors of the 108-hole, six-day Final Stage. It's surprising, really, that it's taken the best-selling Feinstein, master of the year-in-the-life sports chronicle, this long to write about Q School. The subject is made to order for his slices-of-life approach. There's plenty of dramatic shot-by-shot reporting here, as Feinstein follows the action at the 2005 Q School, but the core of the book is taken up with getting inside the heads of the competitors, whether it's overmatched also-rans who don't know when to quit, talented rookies seemingly on the verge of great careers, or former champions struggling to hang on one more year. (Masters winner Larry Mize says it all for the last group: "It's been a long time since I had to put my golf shoes on in the parking lot.") What makes this account so compelling is the way Feinstein drives home the point recreational golfers know all too well: golf is, above all, a humbling, even humiliating, game. Bill Ott
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Reader Reviews
John Feinstein is one of the great sportswriters of this generation...or, at least he was. I love golf and considered his 1995 "A Good Walk Spoiled" to be a classic golf and sports book. He also scored big with "A Season on the Brink" in 1988 and "A Civil War", the great read about the Army/Navy football game. These books are all classics and I thought of Feinstein as one of the true greats in the business. And then came Tales from Q School. This book is about as light as any book I have ever read on content. The type is big and there are few words on each page. You can read a page in about twenty seconds because a page in this book is really not a page at all. It's more like a paragraph or two. The stories aren't that interesting and the book just has the feel of a commercial rush job. I will think twice before investing in a Feinstein book from now on. There isn't anything that interesting in the book and one man's story has the same feeling as the next guys. Frankly, some of these stories are old and have been part of Q-school lore for years. The book just had the feeling of a rushed term paper...his heart just wasn't into this book like some of his others. This would have been a good Golf Digest article...just cut out a few stories and you have a good article. I read the book in about 5 hours and I read pretty slow...I would not buy this book again. This is a piece of work that Feinstein should be ashamed because we know how capable he is...save your money and time. Feinstein better do better next time or his credibility will be tarnished and that would be a shame.
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