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Summary: Sliced For a Double Bogey
Review: Just like the drive that starts right down the middle, then slices way off to the right, this book is a letdown.It promises such great things, inside the ropes of the best golfers. It doesn't deliver, but rather just provides collected anecdotes, rather than real first hand observation, interview, etc. Suggest turn to some great golf writing on the topic, e.g. Lorne Rubenstein's "Links:An Exploration" of which Greg Norman says this is one of rare journalists who understands the tour, and John Feinstein's "The Majors."
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Summary: Sliced For a Double Bogey
Review: Just like the drive that starts right down the middle, then slices way off to the right, this book is a letdown. It promises such great things, inside the ropes of the best golfers. It doesn't deliver, but rather just provides collected anecdotes, rather than real first hand observation, interview, etc. Suggest turn to some great golf writing on the topic, e.g. Lorne Rubenstein's "Links:An Exploration" of which Greg Norman says this is one of rare journalists who understands the tour, and John Feinstein's "The Majors."
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Summary: There are many golf books better than this one!
Review: Please don't waste your money on this book, while the premise is good, the writer appears to have no real access to the players and/or is very afraid of pissing them off. He doesn't tell anything pithy about any player or tournament and if you know anything about golf you will come away very disappointed. Additionally, the author's writing is lackluster and he appears to rely on second hand information and the anecdotes of others. The best lines of this book are on the back of the jacket cover and after that well... there are just a lot of better golf books! By the way the 5-Star review (in this section) "Strenge Aces the PGA Tour" is either written by his publisher or his friend. There is not a sign of "meticulous research" in this book and it is not even remotely in the same league as The Majors.
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Summary: Good Insider Stuff on Tournament Week
Review: This has to be one of the most poorly written golf books in print. Lazy and disjointed writing. The longest an idea is carried forward is 3 sentences. The author seems to have paged through back issues of Golf Digest compiling anecdotes and pulled them together for this book. Unfortunately, it is a topic that has great potential and that is what made me buy it. It is a great disappointment. Don't expect anything near Feinstein's level of writing. Not even close. save your money and buy a box of Tour Distances instead. The only good things I could say is that it could be read in a store within an hour and half and that the cover layout with Tiger's picture is cool.
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Summary: There are many golf books better than this one!
Review: This is not John Feinstein. This could have been a great read BUT there is NO substance! I am not sure that I learned a single thing about the tour from reading this book. Golf magazines provide more information than this guy - who seems to have relied on very weak interviews and a lot of soft second hand stories. Note: the jacket cover has all the substance you are going to find in this book and even then you have heard most of them! PLEASE NOTE: This guy reviewed his own book as "exceptionally informative... and insightful", something it is clearly not! Don't waste your money!
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Summary: Great Golf Read
Review: Very interesting look at the PGA Tour. It goes way beyond the course and finally we get to learn a little more about the lives, habits, personalities of the athletes like we do for athletes in other sports and entertainers.
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Summary: Boring and Trite
Review: Well...I got it...I wish I could return it. Good bathroom book. That's about it. save your cash.
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