Dogleg Madness [Paperback]

Mike Bryan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 21, 1994

Welcomed as a classic on its original publication, Dogleg Madness is more wide-ranging and comprehensive than any other book on the game of golf, covering the U.S. Open as well as an obscure club tournament in West Texas, and including everything in between.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This amiable ramble through the world of the golf tournament revolves around a contrast between the game as it is played at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island and at the Ozona Country Club's invitational tournament in West Texas. The differences are enormousprofessionals versus amateurs, players who play to win versus players who play to enjoy the game, big money versus little money. Bryan, a writer for Golf magazine, attempts to show the cosmic significance of the sport, which he couples with baseball as one of the games that "mirror the unfairness and haphazardness of our lives, then top off the punishment with the incongruous objectivity of a final score." This larger Weltanschauung is conveyed with only moderate success. There is much about Bryan's own golf game (evidently not very good) and the personalities of the great players in the Open and the not-so-greats in Texas. It's a pleasant book but inconsequential.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Portions of this book appeared in different form in Golf and other magazines. Bryan's rambling, potpourri style permits the reader to delve into the text at any point from the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island to a unique but lesser event, the Ozone Country Club's Invitational in West Texas. The author covers many of the golf greats from Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen to Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson. Bryan seems to delight in shaping prankish cameos. He seeks to explain philosophically why so many people have an all-consuming passion to do a better job in hitting that tiny, little white ball. A readable, offbeat addition to golf collections. Eugene J. Millich, Univ. of Wisconsin Lib., La Crosse
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; 1ST edition (January 21, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087113330X
• ISBN-13: 978-0871133304
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,872,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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