Shouting at Amen Corner: Dispatches from the World's Greatest Golf Tournament [Hardcover]

Ron Green (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1999

Shouting At Amen Corner is a collection of the best of Ron Green's columns and articles from his forty-five years of covering the Masters for The Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer. It is a firsthand account of the world's greatest golf tournament in the postwar era. It's a book about Hogan, Palmer, Nicklaus, Watson, Faldo, and Wood, but it's also about Norman, Weiskopf, Miller, and others who have come so close, only to see their dream and the Green Jacket slip away at the last moment. This book is unique in that it recounts history as it was being made, and as such offers a special intimacy and perspective. Not a behind-the-scenes expos about members, money, and power, but a story of golf's greatest showcase event and the players who have created cherished memories over the last five decades.

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About the Author

Ron Green was formerly a long time writer for the Charlotte News. His work has also been published in Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, Golf Illustrated, and other national publications.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 238 pages
• Publisher: Sports Masters (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583820183
• ISBN-13: 978-1583820186
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #873,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars SHOUTING AT AMEN CORNER, May 15, 2009

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Carol Judkins (Boyne City, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shouting at Amen Corner (Paperback)

This was a gift for my son, an avid golfer. He was happy to receive it for his 40th birthday. He named his son Nicklaus, after Jack.

5.0 out of 5 stars There's Only One Masters and Ron Green Captures It All, April 6, 2008

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Big D (Auburn, AL. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shouting at Amen Corner (Paperback)

As Ron Green writes: "Take away every sports event, but one. I'll Keep the Masters. I'm a hopeless fan, and I make no apologies...." Nor should he...The Masters is a one of a kind sporting event..the last sporting event that has not sold itself to altar of almighty greed. Sportsmanship, grace, beauty, and hospitality still matter at Augusta National and golf is all the better for it.

Combined with his latest book,"The Masters--101 Reasons to Love the World's Greatest Golf Tournament," this is Ron Green, Sr.'s loving and lasting tribute to the event, to the spirit he loves best, the spirit of Bobby Jones, Clifford Roberts, to golf itself, and to the spirit of Augusta.

If Journalism is history in a hurry, this book, "Shouting at Amen Corner" is good history--no, great history. It starts with Snead and Hogan, passes reverently to Palmer, Nicklaus, Player and Watson and on through to Tiger, Phil and others of the current era. Green writes about history as it happens, and, as the young lions become old lions and give way to a new generation, he writes about that, too, lovingly, caringly, but also candidly--most candidly.

This, as you might imagine, is a collection of his best coverage of the Masters beginining in 1955 and continuing through 1999. After brief introductory material for perspective, each chapter, each year, proceeds immediately into his coverage of the event....history as it happned, told by one who understands it, respects the participants, and appreciates their efforts, their agony and their ectasy.

This is a book, as he writes in the introduction, about "moments of greatness and moments of dreadful failure," all told from a deeply human perspective.

If you love golf, especially the Masters, or know someone who does, this book is a must. As was said of the ole Lone Ranger, "Return With Us Now to those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear...." That's what this book is all about, the wonderful days of yesteryear at Augusta and the men who made them wonderful.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Smell the Azaleas, October 24, 2000

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D. Hud Gregory "HudGreg" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shouting at Amen Corner: Dispatches from the World's Greatest Golf Tournament (Hardcover)

A very nice book on a very beautiful subject for golf purists. Ausgusta National is ruled by a bunch of stiff ole grey men in green jackets. But the course and the annual tournament are stuff of legends.