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The Green

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While Mr. McAllister has certainly written an exceptional and worthwhile tale for anyone who has ever lined up 10 footer with money on the line I believe most avid golfers will agree that the final sting left much to be desired. Without giving away the ending I believe there were a myriad of other hustles that the author could have used. It was totally amateurish and did not fit with Eddie's character. However, Eddie is still my hero and the book follows a very close second to Bagger Vance.

THE GREEN stands on its own as one of the best sports novels ever written. But with the recent Ryder Cup, one of the most memorable events in the history of team sports, fresh in memory, THE GREEN becomes doubly enjoyable: it will take you inside the minds of characters eerily like those who played in the tournament, Europeans as well as Americans, and provide insights that simply couldn't be gotten from watching television coverage. A treasure to be read again and again.

"The Green" is the finest book I have read in many years. Read much of it on a long flight had folks sitting around me wondering why why I laughed out loud every 5 minutes. Great characters, great subject, and hilarious situations with nearly every page turn. Yet, "The Green" has a very real story to tell about life in the fast lane on the PGA Tour. A must read for all--not just golfers.

As stated--"The Green" is very fun and entertaining. Being a golfer and an avid Ryder Cup fan I did find myself a bit bored by the explanations of the event and the game, however I'm certain this quality will help the non-golf or Ryder fan to understand it a bit better. Following the 24 or so characters in the book can be confusing. Except of course for the players who seem to be derived straight from the PGA Tour (the Tiger Woods and John Daly facsimiles hit you right in the face). I also found it hard to believe that professional golfers would know so little about the rules of the game. Saying all of this, I couldn't put it down! It is a very quick read and a page turner. I found myself laughing and guessing what will happen next the entire way through. With Ryder Cup a few weeks away this is the perfect way for longtime fans to occupy their time and new or non- fans to have a batter understanding of this great event.

...the book jacket says. With so little time to read (I'm an orthopedic surgeon), I have to pick books carefully, and chose this one because of the review I read in Kirkus. Just finished it this morning and it's still haunting me. I am a golfer, and thought I knew it all, but after reading this beautifully written story, I think I might just fall in love with the game all over again. It's sure to become a classic, not just of golf fiction or sports fiction, but on its own as a novel.

The Green by Troon McAllister is about a prestigious golf tournament that has been in our history for over 100 years. The Ryder cup is a golf tournament pitting the United States against Europe in a head to head match play format. Alan Bellamy, having won the British open and being the best golfer in America, was chosen to be the captain for the United States team. The first ten of twelve players on the team are the top point leaders on the PGA tour. Alan was free to choose his last two players. The European team was supposed to be so good this year that none of the rest of the top pros wanted to be part of the humiliation of losing. He chose a South Floridian, municipal course hustler as his twelfth man. This hustler's name was Eddie Camineti. Eddie was no ordinary golfer because he had a special gift of scoping out the weaknesses of his opponents and using them to his advantage. He hated publicity because he thought the people he played would notice him and he would lose business. The story goes on as Eddie and Alan head the United States Ryder cup team against the brutal Europeans.

I would recommend this book to die hard golf fans because Troon Mcallister really gets into the different aspects of the game that would bore or even confuse the non-golfer. He also talks a lot about swing mechanics and how to read a green. I might also recommend this book to people who like to read about hustlers. Eddie is a true hustler that shows how the business of hustling is done throughout the book.

Troon McAllister rocks! Okay, so you need to suspend your grip on reality to flow with a plot that sees a nobody picked for the Ryder Cup team, but it's worth the effort. Eddie Caminetti is a perfect nobody for the Ryder Cup and the Ryder Cup is the perfect setting for Eddie to unleash his talent for golf and off-beat psychology on an unsuspecting golf audience.

This book is all about Caminetti. It's also all about golf, hustling, and human nature. Along the way there's ample suspense and more humor than has any right to be in it's 300 pages. Most golf novels (and most sports novels for that matter) follow a familiar plot but this book takes us to new, and very original, ground.

Truly funny and the first real competitor to "Missing Links" by Rick Reilly, this is a gripping read. You just never know what's around the corner . . . but you know it's going to be hilarious.

This is a masterfully crafted, hysterically funny and profoundly moving golf story that, thankfully, doesn't treat the game as some kind of religion. Down to earth characters, a lot of suspense and thrills, and not a few lessons about life to boot. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Just read one of this author's books under his real name (Lee Gruenfeld). Very, very different but no less wonderful. My plan now is to read them all.

A fun book about golf, gambling and human nature. Any book that makes you wish you could meet one of the characters (Eddie) can't be bad.

My daughter got this book for me for Fathers Day, and what a great day that was. I laughed out loud so many times in the first few pages, I had to go to another room to read. As a golf fan and occassional player, I enjoyed it immensely, I learned a little about my own swing that I can improve on, and I learned some interesting life lessons. a thoroughly enjoyable book from cover to cover.