Missing the Cut: The Highs and Lows of a Golf Pro on the Edge of The Big Time

Thorp, David

ISBN 10: 143439350X / ISBN 13: 9781434393500

Published by AuthorHouse, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Missing the Cut: The Highs and Lows of a Golf Pro on the Edge of The Big Time
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143439350X
• ISBN 13: 9781434393500
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 340.2 grams

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Synopsis

For a short while, after a rapid rise, David Thorp was the leading Midlands professional golfer, a British international player and one of the top British club professionals, before an equally fast drop into obscurity.How could this happen and where did it all go wrong? These are questions that the author will answer in this fascinating narrative while giving an insight into the world of professional golf in the seventies and eighties.Be there with David as he confidently tees off in the British Open at Royal St. Georges behind Jack Nicklaus and in the PGA Championship at Wentworth when his movement control is so impaired that he wishes he could disappear.This is not the usual story of a British sporting star's fame and fortune, but is about an ordinary young man with a special talent and his gritty determination to succeed despite a disabling condition.

About the Author

David Thorp, born in 1953, started life in Leeds, Yorkshire, where he spent most of his childhood, apart from a short, but influential spell in Canada as a young teenager.Sport was always a major part of his life, but mostly football and cricket, rather than golf. Despite this non-golfing background, and starting the game relatively late, David made remarkable strides through the ranks to briefly experience the very top level of the game.Combined with this roller-caster ride of a playing career, he was also Club Professional at several leading English golf clubs including Sutton Coldfield and Gog Magog. Latterly David has concentrated on teaching, using his wide experience to become a renowned golf coach in the Shropshire area.Wife Rosie and David live in Bridgnorth and have two grown-up children, Emily and Christopher.