The bogey man - Hardcover

Plimpton, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0006828213 ISBN 13: 9780006828211

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1968

Synopsis

George Plimpton chronicles a month's tour on the Professional Golfers' Association golf circuit. Plimpton hit on the formula of an amateur thrown among the best pros in various sports. He is one of America's leading humorists and he wrote the foreword for this edition.

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From the Back Cover:

Humorous but also agonizing and unfailingly fascinating, regardless of one’s interest in golf. For the psychology of the sport and this is what Mr. Plimpton is probing there is nothing more revealing around.”
New York Times  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 people in a book just as charming, in its own way, as Paper Lion.”
Life magazine What happens when a weekend athlete of average skill joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton finds out during a month of self-imposed torture on the PGA tour. In The Bogey Man he describes golf legends, adventurers, stroke-saving theories, superstitions, and other golfing lore, as well as his thoughts and experiences frustrating, humbling, and, sometimes, thrilling from thfe last green. This classic remains one of the wittiest books ever written on golf.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0006828213
• ISBN 13: 9780006828211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306