A golfer who has won more tournaments than any other shares tips and advice, as well as never-before-told anecdotes that integrate insight into the mental strategy of the game as well as into the swings and putts. (Sports).
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Whether or not Sam Snead sits atop the leader board as golf's greatest is no gimme, but there's no question about his ability to communicate. His storytelling was always as much a part of his game as his smooth, melodic swing, and he tells wonderful stories in The Game I Love. In the tradition of Harvey Penick's bestselling series, Snead's book is a slim volume that affably blends advice with anecdote, swing thought with strategy: on that level alone, the book is nothing if not useful and engaging. What makes it uniquely fun, though, is its clever bottom-of-the-page photo feature; flip quickly through the book and you can see the Snead swing--as graceful as the game has ever produced--in all its glory, and that fills The Game I Love with poetry as well.
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Many hope to retire to a life of golf, but Snead feels no need to retire from his life in golf. He is the winner of 185 professional tournaments, including three Masters, three PA championships, and one British Open. This book reads like a wonderful late-night conversation with an uncle?full of humor, love, and meaningful advice. Snead's entertaining anecdotes shed new light on all the legends of golf like Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan, contemporaries, competitors, and lifelong friends. Golf's most successful player also gives honest reviews of Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods. Snead is best when writing about the game?fairways, greens, clubs, and the virtually religious quest for the perfect swing. Anyone with an appreciation of the game will enjoy this book.
-?Andrew Riccobono, Marymount Univ., Arlington, Va.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-?Andrew Riccobono, Marymount Univ., Arlington, Va.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Man We All Knew,
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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.
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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.
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This is a very good book. I think that everyone can learn something from Sam's book.
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