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It's hard to remember back to the era when golfers were assumed to be gentleman, no scandal, no inappropriate behaviour, just great golf. His career included everyone from Cary Middlecoff and Arnold Palmer to a nascent Tiger Wood. (by then he was not playing but his comments on the, then, phenom, have a validity that only now have proved to be true.) He was a gentle man, a man who believed in dignity and respect. He also believed in the rules of golf and played not with them but to them. His triumphs are many and in a quiet way he mentions them. Basically anecdotal, they knit themselves together in a comfortable string that carries the reader down the fairways, into the traps and out of the water hazards that he and those who played with him knew. This is not a "and then I won" sort of book, it's pleasant reflection by a man who knew the game and how to play. His kind no longer exists which is a great sorrow. The book exists as a pleasant memory of a good and wise man who has the humility to tell it well and completely.

This is a fun book that covers the life and career of the Great Sam Snead. It is an easy read that hard to put down. Any fan of golf will want to read this.

This is a very good book. I think that everyone can learn something from Sam's book.