Harvey Penick's life in golf began when he initiated caddying at the Austin, (Texas), Country Club at age eight. Eighty-one years later he is still there, still dispensing wisdom to pros and beginners alike. His stature in the golf world is reflected in the remarkable array of champions he's worked together with, together men and women, counting U.S. Open ...
In 1939, a billiard hall fry cook from Tacoma named Homer Kelley played golf for the first time and scored 116. Frustrated, he did not have fun again for six months; then when he did he shot 77. Obsessively inquisitive ...
Ever since his astonishing victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, John Daly has enthralled fans together with his big drives, bigger personality, and his "grip it and rip it" approach to golf . . . and to life. Usually seen together with a cigarette dangling from his lip, Long John is the unchained, unpredictable, unapologetic bad boy of professional golf.
Authorized, intimate, and definitive, Ben Hogan: A Life is the long-awaited biography of one of golf’s greatest, much enigmatic legends, narrated together with the distinctive eloquence this has made author James Dodson a critically acclaimed national bestseller. One man is often credited together with shaping the landscape of modern golf. Ben ...