Golf Heaven: Insiders Remember Their First Trip to Augusta National Golf Club [Hardcover]

John Andrisani (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 2007

Since its founding by Bobby Jones in 1933, the Augusta National Golf Club has become the most fabled, mythologized, and controversial golf course in the world. It's also the most exclusive — which means that for most of us, this book is the closest we'll come to experiencing it. In Golf Heaven, celebrated golf writer John Andrisani presents twenty-five first-person narratives — by pro golfers, celebrities, politicians, business people, and others — about playing the course and being a guest at the club for the first time. The list of contributors includes everyone from Bill Gates to Annika Sorenstam, Clint Eastwood to Charlie Rose, Bill Murray to Rudy Giuliani. These are intimate, never-before-told stories that we never thought we'd hear — from misadventures on Magnolia Lane to first-tee jitters, from what it's like to spend the night in the legendary "Crow's Nest" to a tour of the club's vast wine cellar, from high jinks in the caddie shack to the club's secret recipe for clam chowder (the "best in the world," according to many).

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About the Author

John Andrisani is a former senior editor at Golf magazine and the author or coauthor of thirty books, including Think Like Tiger and The Tiger Woods Way, and the current bestseller The Plane Truth for Golfers (with Jim Hardy). He lives in Sarasota, Florida.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (February 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560257881
• ISBN-13: 978-1560257882
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,016,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Augusta National and The Masters Deserve Better, March 22, 2009

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This review is from: Golf Heaven: Insiders Remember Their First Trip to Augusta National Golf Club (Hardcover)

No one respects Augusta National and reveres the Masters more than this reviewer. While reading this book, one thought came to mind again and again: "Augusta National and the Masters deserve better...."

Respect, admiration, appreciation, even awe and reverence are one thing, but fawning and gushing is another and this book fawns and gushes like a teenager dreaming about his first girlfriend. It may even bit embarrassing to the good folk who run Augusta National and the Masters. This book fawns and gushes to the point that it demeans the Club and the tournament it seeks to honor. It's that bad.

The writer appears to be trying to ingratiate himself to club members, perhaps in hopes of gettng another "invitation" to play the course. His first "invitation" reads like it wasn't an invitation at all, but the annual opportunity for members of the media to play the course Monday after the final round of the Masters.

And if all of this isn't enough, the book is very poorly edited. On page 25, the same sentence is repeated twice: "Roberts countered this decision by NBC, by encouraging August to broadcast the Masters." followed by "Roberts counterted this decision by NBC, by encouraging Augusta to sign an agreement with CBS..."

I wish I could be more positive. I'm sure Mr. Andrisani is a nice person, a good writer and meant well, but, frankly, Augusta National and the Masters deserve a better tribute than this. Much better. There's too much author and too much "cuteness" in this one.