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When War Played Through: Golf During World War II
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by John Strege
Sales Rank: 434457
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List Price: $27.50
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 336 pages
Published by: Gotham October 20, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1592401546
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1592401543
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Booklist
On January 18, 1942, Abercrombie & Fitch sold 24,000 golf balls, as golfers reacted in panic to the post-Pearl Harbor news that rubber sales would be strictly rationed. That one fact captures the odd fascination of this look at the effect of the war on the game of golf. Surprisingly, as veteran golf writer Strege points out, golf may have fared better near the field of battle than it did in the U.S. From General Eisenhower to POWs in German stalags, soldiers took every opportunity to hit balls with clubs. While the battlefields of Europe and the South Pacific sprouted makeshift links, complete with bomb craters serving as bunkers, golf courses back home became training grounds, hospitals, or, in the case of Augusta National, a turkey farm. Strege follows the fates of average golfers as well as professionals in this revealing account, showing that the war, in fact, helped usher in the golf boom of the 1950s and did much to change the notion of the game as an elitist sport. A deceptively rich albeit narrow slice of golf history. Bill Ott
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Product Description
The New York Times bestselling author pays tribute to the golfers who rallied for an Allied victory during World War II—and shows how the Greatest Generation kept golf alive, despite equipment shortages, bombings, and even captivity.
World War II transformed the American home front, and golf was no exception. The world-famous Masters course at Augusta National became a farm to ease food shortages. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead were drafted, and Bobby Jones enlisted. Rubber rationing forced pros and amateurs alike to play with well-worn golf balls—and created a black market for new ones. The 1942 U.S. Open was canceled, replaced by the Hale American Open—whose winner, Ben Hogan, was awarded $1,000 in war bonds—while golfers across the country raised millions of dollars for the war effort.
When War Played Through brings to life these little-known aspects of an endlessly fascinating period in golf’s history. Bestselling golf author John Strege’s narrative extends overseas to captured soldiers in Germany who constructed golf courses in a POW camp and English golfers who devised rules for playing around bomb craters and shrapnel during the Blitz (from the Richmond Gold Club in London: “A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball. Penalty one stroke.”). Many golfers returned home from battle with commendations for valor, finding unmatched solace on the links after a dark time.
When War Played Through is the compelling story how an elite sport became a selfless one—and how golf became, for a nation at war, much more than a game.
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This review is from: When War Played Through: Golf During World War II (Paperback)
A great little book for light reading that will appeal most to the golfer but will also have appeal to the non golfer.
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