Jack Fleck had the slimmest of resumes as a professional tournament golfer. He had never come close to winning on the PGA Tour, and was in the mere qualifier category when it came time for the 1955 U.S. Open at the Olympic Golf Club in San Francisco. A qualifier, in the parlance, is not even a contender; he just fills out the field. Yet Fleck got himself into a playoff...
Al Barkow is a veteran golf reporter, former editor-in-chief of both Golf and Golf Illustrated magazines, and recipient of the 2005 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. His books include Sam: The One and Only Sam Snead, That’s Golf: The Best of Al Barkow, The Golden Era of Golf, Gene Sarazen and Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf, Golf’s Golden Grind, and Gettin’ to the Dance Floor: An Oral History of...
“Al Barkow knows more about golf than any man alive.” —Rick Reilly, author of Who’s Your Caddy? and The Life of Reilly
“From Getting to the Dance Floor in ’86 to this piece of great non-fiction writing and reporting, Barkow has emerged as the pre-eminent golf historian of the past quarter century.” —Tim Rosaforte, GolfWorld and Golf Channel
“Fleck beat Hogan. Fleck beat Hogan? Huh? In the 1955 U.S. Open, no less....
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