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Summary: A great book for everyone who enjoys golf.
Review: "The Majors" gave me as much pleasure as any golf book I have read. The blend of history and present day action is well balanced, and the movement through the year (1998) from tournament to tournament gives the book an ideal structure.This book is a perfect companion to Feinstein's earlier book "A Good Walk Spoiled". That book was an enthralling description of the PGA Tour and the life of the players. "The Majors" is even more enthralling because the four tournaments that are its subject are at the heart of the game of golf. Because they represent the pinnacle of the game, they deserve the best writing and the finest understanding, and in this book they get it. Like the players, Feinstein has seen the challenge these tournaments represent, and he has lifted his writing another notch to meet that challenge. I did find the lengthy descriptions of the private life of some players a bit trying, but that's a problem easily solved. I just moved on to where the book returned to the narrative of the tournaments and was immediately engrossed in the story again. A fine book and a beautifully presented one too.
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Summary: Great Book For An Avid Golfer
Review: "The Majors" is a well written, very interesting golf book. It concentrates solely on the 1998 Majors. While entertaining, "The Majors" falls well short of Feinstein's previous work "A Good Walk Spoiled." Likewise, "The Majors" would be most interesting to an avid golfer. I gave the book to my brother, a casual fan, who found it to be rather dull.
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Summary: A MUST have book for true golf fans!
Review: After throughly enjoying Mr. Feinstein's "A Good Walk Spoiled", I was pleased to hear that he had released another book so soon. The Majors is a very in-depth look into the lives of the men on the PGA Tour. As an avid golfer who has been "down" with a bulging disc in my back for the past month, I relished having this book to escape with. You can't go wrong buying this one!
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Summary: A better walk spoiled
Review: Although, as a golfer, I completely enjoyed A Good Walk Spoiled, I found it a little repetitive and slightly unorganized. The mini-bios on the players were great but the transitions used to tie them together were rather weak. In contrast I found that using the majors to tie the story line together made this book a much more fluid read and much easier to get into for a few hours, althought the format is still very similar to A Good Walk. Overall, this is a much better read, and still provides great inside information for us wanna-be PGA players.
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Summary: Fascinating perspective on a non-Tiger era
Review: As it turns out, John Feinstein's The Majors was a perfectly timed book, chronicling a year in which Tiger Woods was at his nadir, winning only one tournament. As a result, we get to learn about all the OTHER players on the PGA Tour, and it's about time: in the last year and a half, new golf fans have been able to witness one of the most extraordinary times in the history of the game, but have lost sight of the fact that golf isn't a one-man sport, and that there are many great players on Tour. In The Majors, the spotlight is on them. Also explored are the travails of qualifying for the majors (and the Tour): the quest for exempt status, Q-school, regional U.S. Open playoffs. Though extremely rigorous, these rituals are a fitting reminder of just how open the sport is. For instance, anyone, if they're good enough, can try out for -- and play in -- the U.S. Open. Fortunately, Feinstein's account doesn't consist entirely of a mere play-by-play of the back nines at all four majors. The background he provides on the history of the tournaments and courses is prodigious. Especially in his extended rendition of Augusta, the reader can easily feel like he or she is right there, standing on the freshly cut grass of the 18th green.
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Summary: Unfolding Drama of Sixteen Rounds at the '98 Majors
Review: Freddie Couples on winning one of the Majors (Masters, U.S. Open, The Open and PGA): "Once you've been in the hunt in a major and know what it feels like, you would never ever compare winning a bunch of regular tour events with winning a major." Feinstein takes us on a tour of each major in order, chronicling the backgrounds player by player who provides in the drama or adds to the color of that tournament (e.g. Appleby in the PGA). This is superb journalism, as it develops and twists and turns coming into that last green. The reader will surely take away many good stories which without this book one would likely never know. For me, at the top of that list will be the switching of the player numbers on the portable scoreboard, O'Meara mistakenly getting Freddie's no. 70; Lee Janzen's almost missing his tee time driving around the Bay; remembering Kirk Triplett's stopping his putt at Olympic's treacherous 18th that year; Janzen's ball falling out of the tree at the last moment; O'Meara's ball found at the last moment at Royal Birkdale. This is such a good read for golfers. Read it, enjoy it. Find out what the players are really thinking as they come down the stretch.
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Summary: Great entertainment and an interesting peak inside the ropes
Review: I absolutely swallowed this book. There is both amusing, exiting and sad parts in this look into the world of the stars and their entourage. Also it's fun to read about how the BIG pro's react when in a stressfull situation such as a major tournament.... it turns out they are people after all. READ IT!!!
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Summary: This has to be one of the worst books I have ever read.
Review: I am an avid reader who has, with the exception of once, has never stopped reading a book without finshing. Make that two with "The Majors". This is a prime example of two things: (a) that the best sports books are historical sports books, and (b) that there are only a few sportswriters in the world with the talent to write a good novel, and John Feinstein is definitely not one of them. He skips around in the book so much it made my head hurt, and he is terrible about reintroducing people that have already been established. I have no explanation on how this book came to be a bestseller other than the public is an illiterate bunch of bandwagoneers. Even my love for golf could not get me through this one.
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Summary: Great Read - Feinstein Tells a Great Story
Review: I couldn't put this book down. Feinstein weaves a great story together about the 1997 Majors season. This was Tiger's first US Open defense, and a great year for O'Meara. John Daly was falling apart, and Fred Couples was having his challenges. I'm guessing that through interviews with the players, as well as their friends and family, Feinstein gets a great deal of background material. The story that he's put together takes the reader through the four Majors in order, and makes each place come to life. I learned a great deal about what it's really like to play at Augusta National. For that matter, I learned a great deal about what it's like to spectate at the Masters. Admittedly, I have a love for the game of golf. I have played it for over twenty years; since about 7th grade. I play well, I love being on the course and I love watching the majors. So, buyer/reader beware. I ought to have loved this book. That being said, it's got plenty to offer if you're a golf widow or just like a good read about professional athletes.
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Summary: Even better than his great "A Good Walk Spoiled"
Review: I didn't think Mr. Feinstein ould top "A Good Walk Spoiled" but, he has done it. This book had me laughing and crying. I loved it.
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