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The secret of golf : the story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus / Joe Posnanski.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476766430 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 241 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Nicklaus, Jack. Watson, Tom, 1949- Golf > United States > History. Golfers > United States > Biography. Sports rivalries. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 796.3520922 Pos | 31681002506178 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Drawing on extensive interviews with both players, a story of friendship, rivalry, and an enduring relationship between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, from 1977 to the present, details the sparring matches that defined the sport for more thana decade. - Baker & Taylor
Drawing on extensive interviews with both players over many years, a story of friendship, rivalry and an enduring relationship between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, from 1977 to the present, details the sparring matches that defined the sport for more than a decade. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Paterno. - Simon and Schuster
New York Times Bestseller
The first time they met, at an exhibition match in 1967, Tom Watson was a seventeen-year-old high school student and Jack Nicklaus, at twenty-seven, was already the greatest golfer in the world. Though they shared some similaritiesâthey were both Midwestern boys who had learned how to play golf at their fathersâ country clubsâthey differed in many ways. Nicklaus played a game of consummate control and precision. Watson hit the ball all over the place. Nicklaus lacked charm and theatrics, and he was thoroughly despised by most golf fans because he had displaced Arnold Palmer as king of the golf world. Watson was one of those Arnold Palmer fans. Yet over the next twenty years their seemingly divergent paths collided as they battled against each other again and again for a place at the top of the sport and drove each other to ever-soaring heights of accomplishment.
Spanning from that first match through the âDuel in the Sunâ at Turnberry in 1977 to Watsonâs miraculous near-victory at Turnberry as he approached sixty, and informed by interviews with both players over many years, The Secret of Golf is Joe Posnanskiâs intimate account of the most remarkable rivalry and (eventual) friendship in modern golf.
