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With a foreword by the legendary Arnold Palmer, this inspired collection includes pieces on golf by such noted writers as Alex Morrison, George Plimpton, Dave Barry, John Updike, Rick Reilly, Herbert Warren Wind, Harvey Penick, and Dan Jenkins.
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No book that fails to offer tee times to the prose of Bernard Darwin and Herbert Warren Wind can truly call itself the "Best" of golf writing; you might as well try navigating Riviera or Oakmont with no driver or putter in your bag. Still, given its handicap, A Passion for Golf posts a respectable score. Its selection of pieces is wide-ranging and surprisingly eclectic: fiction by the hard-boiled James Ellroy, the aristocratic J.P. Marquand, and the mystical Michael Murphy hit as straight and true as essays by Bobby Jones, Thomas Boswell, Harvey Penick, John Updike, and Rick Reilly. Selections from Arnold Haultain's 1908 classic The Mysteries of Golf almost make up for the lost strokes of no Darwin and Wind, and Alistair Cooke's delightful commentary on the tribulations facing the builders of the (then) Soviet Union's first golf course more than cancels out the inclusion of a bit from Bob Hope's sappy Confessions of a Hooker. --Jeff Silverman
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Contributors include:
Arnold Palmer
Tom Watson
Harvey Penick
Bob Hope
Sam Snead
John Updike
Gene Sarazen
Bobby Jones
Rick Reilly
Thomas Boswell
Walter Bingham
Schuyler Bishop
Robert H. Boyle
Christopher Bram
Elmer Osgood Cappers
Marcia Chambers
Alistair Cooke
James Ellroy
John Garrity
Rhonda Glenn
Arnold Haultain
Edwin Bancroft Henderson
Richard Hooker
J.P. Marquand
Alex J. Morrison
Michael Murphy
Francis Ouimet
Betsy Rawls
Jeanne Schinto
A.W. Tillinghast
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- PublisherThomas Dunne Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312190271
- ISBN 13 9780312190279
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages349
- EditorBishop Schuyler
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