Talking on Tour : The Best Anecdotes from Golf's Master Storyteller [Paperback]

Don Wade (Author)

Book Description

Series: And Then Jack Said to Arnie... | Publication Date: March 5, 2003

"Guaranteed to make you the life of your weekly foursome. Don Wade will remind you of why you fell in love with the game of golf in the first place."--Matt Lauer, cohost, "Today"

For more than a decade, Don Wade has entertained golf fans with many captivating collections of sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving, but always true golf stories in his bestselling "And Then Jack Said to Arnie . . ." series. Now golf's master storyteller has selected the absolute best stories from his earlier volumes and showcased them in one deluxe edition.

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"Guaranteed to make you the life of your weekly foursome. Don Wade will remind you of why you fell in love with the game of golf in the first place."
--Matt Lauer, cohost, "Today"

Golf's master storyteller Don Wade has entertained sports fans with his often hilarious, sometimes moving, but always true golf stories in his bestselling "And Then Jack Said to Arnie . . ." series. Now available in paperback, Talking on Tour is a collection of the absolute best from the first eight volumes, showcased in one deluxe edition.

Talking on Tour is filled with heartwarming, off-the-cuff stories that capture the essence of America's most popular pastime. Here you will read about:

• Sam Snead's historic round with former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill
• Tom Weiskopf's faux pas when he met Great Britain's Princess Margaret
• Bobby Jones's heroic struggle with the disease that wasted his body and eventually claimed his life
• Tommy Bolt's struggles (in vain) to control his temper
• And much more

Talking on Tour brings you onto the green and inside the clubhouse with stories that celebrate the people, the camaraderie, and the great spirit of the game.

About the Author

Don Wade, a former senior editor at Golf Digest, is the author of the nine golf-story collections in the bestselling "And Then Jack Said to Arnie..." series. Covering professional golf since the 1970s, he has worked as a feature writer for CBS Sports and NBC Sports and as a golf analyst for the USA Network. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

Illustrator Paul Szep, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe, has published thirteen collections of cartoons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 491 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 5, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809294745
• ISBN-13: 978-0809294749
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,858,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, But..., May 28, 2007

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This review is from: Talking on Tour : The Best Anecdotes from Golf's Master Storyteller (Paperback)

"Talking on Tour" is an anthology of the "And then Jack Said to Arnie" seies, seven or eight smaller books in all.

Good stuff, interesting stuff, some humorous, some touching, all quick read snatches and glimpses into the game of golf and its greatest names.

But, having said that, this anthology was in bad need of an editor, not so much to edit out sketches, but to edit the sketches and stories when the books were combined into one.

For example, there might be six or eight vignettes on a particular golfer. Rather identify the golfer as "winner of the 1946 U.S. Open" in the first vignette and let that description or identification be enough for all of the stories about this particular golfer, the golfer is identified as "winner of the 1946 U.S. Open" in each of the six or eight stories about him...Rather than edit references within a sketch, the publisher just lifted stories verbatim out of the other books.

Distracting but not enough to keep you from enjoying the many good stories contained in this work...

(Guess we are now wating on "And then Zach said to TBD"....) Golf is always filled with so many good and timeless stories. This book is a compilation of most of them.