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On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession
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by Timothy O'Grady
Sales Rank: 1250944
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
Published by: St. Martin's Griffin June 13, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0312330065
ASIN: B00127UIUC
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
From Booklist
Like many baby boomers, O'Grady learned to play golf as a child but later abandoned the game when the siren call of the counterculture proved incompatible with the Vardon grip. After growing up in the Midwest and becoming an avid golfer in his teens, O'Grady followed his sirens to Europe, where he struggled to establish himself as a novelist. Golf came back into his life when he agreed to write an article on the sport for Esquire; soon his writing assignments were affording him the opportunity to play the world's finest courses and even to enjoy a round with Arnold Palmer. O'Grady's memoir combines a bit of golf history with the story of his own golfing life (these days, he counters anti-golf prejudice by reciting a litany of literary and artistic types who play the game, from John Updike to Willie Nelson). At its heart, though, this memoir, like so many other celebrations of sport, is a father-son story, and as such, it reveals yet again the way games can bring together generations. An affecting, often eloquent tribute to a maddening yet magical sport. Bill Ott
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Book Description
An affecting and wide-ranging memoir of one man’s obsession with the arcane mysteries of the game of golf.
Weather hazards, inadequate technique or practice, lack of physical coordination, erratic biorhythms, hangovers, an unruly mind and statistical improbability -- these are just a few of the obstacles to hitting a pure golf shot.
Che Guevara, Alice Cooper, Dennis Hopper and Tiger Woods have all struggled with the above to a greater or lesser degree. And, since being initiated as a child into the arcane mysteries of the game of golf, Timothy O’Grady too has carried in his mind an obsession with the sport that has, at times, been all-consuming. On Golf is structured around a personal history -- how his father played and taught his son, how it dominated his teenage years, his adulation of Arnold Palmer, (with whom he would eventually hit a few rounds), what it was like to eventually beat his father and how they both continued to talk maniacally about the game even as his father lay dying.
When not playing golf, the author was often reading about it, and he discusses in the book the rich literature of the game, which includes the work of Ford Maddox Ford, P.G. Wodehouse, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike and many others. On Golf is the work of a great writer and a good golfer that is destined to become a classic.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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