On Golf - Softcover

O'Grady, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224061135 ISBN 13: 9780224061131

Publisher: YELLOW JERSEY PRESS, 2004

Synopsis

  "A striking meditation that stylishly links his father, Arnold Palmer, Golf in the Kingdom, and the fragility of the swing."
---Sports Illustrated Since being initiated as a child into the arcane mysteries of the game of golf, Timothy O'Grady has carried in his mind an obsession with the sport---embracing its history, literature, and even his own private battle with the club.
On Golf is a personal history of O'Grady's obsession with golf, from its domination of his teenage years, to the glorious occasion when he played a round with Arnold Palmer. Above all, it was the bond of golf that he shared with his father, who gave him his first club when he was only two years old. Forty years later as the old man lay on his deathbed; father and son were still talking about the game.
Timothy O'Grady still dreams that he may one day become a truly fine player but in the meantime he has given us a book that beautifully describes his love affair with the game and goes to the root of the obsession that captivates so many.

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About the Author

Timothy O'Grady was born in the U.S. and has lived in Ireland, London, and Spain. He has written about golf for Golf World and Esquire, including accounts of rounds played with Sergio Garcia and Arnold Palmer.

From Booklist

Like many baby boomers, O'Grady learned to play golf as a child but later abandoned the game when the siren call of the counterculture proved incompatible with the Vardon grip. After growing up in the Midwest and becoming an avid golfer in his teens, O'Grady followed his sirens to Europe, where he struggled to establish himself as a novelist. Golf came back into his life when he agreed to write an article on the sport for Esquire; soon his writing assignments were affording him the opportunity to play the world's finest courses and even to enjoy a round with Arnold Palmer. O'Grady's memoir combines a bit of golf history with the story of his own golfing life (these days, he counters anti-golf prejudice by reciting a litany of literary and artistic types who play the game, from John Updike to Willie Nelson). At its heart, though, this memoir, like so many other celebrations of sport, is a father-son story, and as such, it reveals yet again the way games can bring together generations. An affecting, often eloquent tribute to a maddening yet magical sport. Bill Ott
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About this edition

• Publisher: YELLOW JERSEY PRESS
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0224061135
• ISBN 13: 9780224061131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176