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It's hard enough to carry the name of a famous father. Davis Love III took on even more pressure when he stepped into his famous father's spikes and went out, like his father before him, to earn his living on the Professional Golf Association tour. Fortunately for the son, the father was not only a fine player, he was also one of the country's most respected golf teachers, and he taught his son well. Love III's homage to Love Jr., who was killed in a plane crash, is a literal love-fest, a gracefully emotional hybrid of personal memoir and golfing wisdom. Like Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, the instructional portion of Every Shot I Take, collected from the father's compulsive note-takings, is filled with the kinds of nuggets--practical and inspirational--that golfers cling to when the sweet spot on their clubs begins to turn sour.
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PGA Tour star Davis Love III learned the game from his teaching-pro father, Davis Love Jr., who in turn was a student of legendary golf mentor Harvey Penick. This mix of autobiography, tribute to Dad (who died in a 1988 plane crash), and Dad's aphorisms about the game will appeal to the audience that made Penick's Little Red Book and its sequels runaway best-sellers. The largely commonsensical golf advice is solidly in the Penick ("Take dead aim") school, effectively walking the thin line that separates simple wisdom from simplistic homily. Similarly, Davis' recollections of his father avoid the saccharine aftertaste that often accompanies such memoirs. Instead, he writes directly and honestly of an unusually close relationship, both on and off the golf course. Bill Ott
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It's hard enough to carry the name of a famous father. Davis Love III took on even more pressure when he stepped into his famous father's spikes and went out, like his father before him, to earn his living on the Professional Golf Association tour. Fortunately for the son, the father was not only a fine player, he was also one of the country's most respected golf teachers, and he taught his son well. Love III's homage to Love Jr., who was killed in a plane crash, is a literal love-fest, a gracefully emotional hybrid of personal memoir and golfing wisdom. Like Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, the instructional portion of Every Shot I Take, collected from the father's compulsive note-takings, is filled with the kinds of nuggets--practical and inspirational--that golfers cling to when the sweet spot on their clubs begins to turn sour.
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PGA Tour star Davis Love III learned the game from his teaching-pro father, Davis Love Jr., who in turn was a student of legendary golf mentor Harvey Penick. This mix of autobiography, tribute to Dad (who died in a 1988 plane crash), and Dad's aphorisms about the game will appeal to the audience that made Penick's Little Red Book and its sequels runaway best-sellers. The largely commonsensical golf advice is solidly in the Penick ("Take dead aim") school, effectively walking the thin line that separates simple wisdom from simplistic homily. Similarly, Davis' recollections of his father avoid the saccharine aftertaste that often accompanies such memoirs. Instead, he writes directly and honestly of an unusually close relationship, both on and off the golf course. Bill Ott
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- How to Feel a Real Golf Swing: Mind-Body Techniques from Two of Golf's Greatest Teachers by Bob Toski on page 57, and page 194
- On the Road by Alec Davis on page 99
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell on page 145
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