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The Front Nine: Golf's 9 All-Time Greatest Shots

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Yes this book provides AMAZING stories in great detail and great context. However, this clearly was not written by a very talented writer. Run-on sentences that are difficult to read litter it from beginning to end. There's a typo on one of the first pages to a chapter that is just too obvious to be in anything published: Oakland hills is in Birmingham, MICHIGAN (which is mentioned numerous times within the chapter), but the title page of the chapter says Birmingham, Alabama! The worst part is that if you look about an inch below, where the text is, it says Michigan. Also, he chooses some kind of, for lack of a better word, dumb quotes and tends to repeat things that should not be repeated as well as uses some pretty juvenile metaphors. All in all, GREAT stories, POOR execution. Still though, I started this book on Monday. Saturday at 8am I was on the range because it just instilled that craving in me that a book on the subject should.

Very interesting book. So many details about each of the nine shots from the first one (Sarazen in 1935) to the last one -- the chip by Tiger at the Masters when you saw the swoosh on the ball before it dropped.
I am not a low-handicapper, but I do love golf and know the sport very well. This book kept my interest from page-1. He writes about not only the stars, but all the great characters of the game too.
Very entertaining.