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The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour

The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour

by George Plimpton (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $21.83
Synopsis

What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, who had earlier tried out for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (in Paper Lion) and got a chance to pitch to a team of major-league all-stars in Yankee Stadium (in Out of My League), spent a month of self-imposed torture on the tour -- meeting amateurs, pros, caddies, officials fans, and hangers-on. In The Bogey Man we find golf legends, adventurers, stroke-saving theories, superstitions, and other golfing lore, and best of all, Plimpton's thoughts and experiences -- frustrating, humbling, and, sometimes, thrilling -- from the first tee to the last green. This intriguing classic, which remains one of the wittiest books ever written on golf, features Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Walter Hagan, and many other golf greats and eccentrics, all doing what they do best.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 26 Jan 2010
ISBN 10: 1599218070
ISBN 13: 9781599218076

Media Reviews
Humorous but allso agonizing and also unfailingly fascinating regardless of one's interest in golf. For the psychology of of the sport--and this is what Mr. Plimpton is probing--there is nothing more revealing around. -- The New York Times Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madnesss with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that. -- Newsweek Golf is a lonely and private game, lacking the natural drama of football, but Plimpton, by substituting improvisation for plot, has caught its mad comedy and bizarre effects on peoplein a book just as charming, in its own way, as Paper Lion. -- Life magazine Named by Travel & Leisure Golf magazine as one of The 25 Best Golf Books Ever
Author Bio
George Plimpton (1927-2003) was the best-selling author and editor of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and editor of the Paris Review. He wrote regularly for such magazines as Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and he appeared numerous times in films and on television.