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Summary: Golf at it's greatest
Review: The Green by Troon McAllister is about a prestigious golf tournament that has been in our history for over 100 years. The Ryder cup is a golf tournament pitting the United States against Europe in a head to head match play format. Alan Bellamy, having won the British open and being the best golfer in America, was chosen to be the captain for the United States team. The first ten of twelve players on the team are the top point leaders on the PGA tour. Alan was free to choose his last two players. The European team was supposed to be so good this year that none of the rest of the top pros wanted to be part of the humiliation of losing. He chose a South Floridian, municipal course hustler as his twelfth man. This hustler's name was Eddie Camineti. Eddie was no ordinary golfer because he had a special gift of scoping out the weaknesses of his opponents and using them to his advantage. He hated publicity because he thought the people he played would notice him and he would lose business. The story goes on as Eddie and Alan head the United States Ryder cup team against the brutal Europeans. I would recommend this book to die hard golf fans because Troon Mcallister really gets into the different aspects of the game that would bore or even confuse the non-golfer. He also talks a lot about swing mechanics and how to read a green. I might also recommend this book to people who like to read about hustlers. Eddie is a true hustler that shows how the business of hustling is done throughout the book.
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