Dogleg Madness - Softcover

Bryan, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087113330X ISBN 13: 9780871133304

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

In a series of essays celebrating golf, the author takes readers from the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills to the Ozona Country Club's Invitational in the West Texas flatlands and offers lively discussions of pro tour golfing.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly:

This amiable ramble through the world of the golf tournament revolves around a contrast between the game as it is played at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island and at the Ozona Country Club's invitational tournament in West Texas. The differences are enormousprofessionals versus amateurs, players who play to win versus players who play to enjoy the game, big money versus little money. Bryan, a writer for Golf magazine, attempts to show the cosmic significance of the sport, which he couples with baseball as one of the games that "mirror the unfairness and haphazardness of our lives, then top off the punishment with the incongruous objectivity of a final score." This larger Weltanschauung is conveyed with only moderate success. There is much about Bryan's own golf game (evidently not very good) and the personalities of the great players in the Open and the not-so-greats in Texas. It's a pleasant book but inconsequential.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Portions of this book appeared in different form in Golf and other magazines. Bryan's rambling, potpourri style permits the reader to delve into the text at any point from the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island to a unique but lesser event, the Ozone Country Club's Invitational in West Texas. The author covers many of the golf greats from Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen to Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson. Bryan seems to delight in shaping prankish cameos. He seeks to explain philosophically why so many people have an all-consuming passion to do a better job in hitting that tiny, little white ball. A readable, offbeat addition to golf collections. Eugene J. Millich, Univ. of Wisconsin Lib., La Crosse
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.