You don't need to be a golfer to enjoy this one

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	• A Good Walk Spoiled : Days and Nights on the PGA Tour John Feinstein Little, Brown and Company, 1996 - 544 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A chronicle of modern golf without Tiger Woods

This book is an interesting read, written during the 1995 PGA season. The timing of it is such that Tiger Woods hadn't really hit the scene yet. Because of his dominance in golf, the comparisons in the book are really out of date. This is not a reflection on the author, he worked with what he had at the time, and did a splendid job. At that time on the tour, a three win season was a spectacular feat, where now it is not the case any more for the elite players. The game has changed. A lot of the players who got extra attention in the book are still on the scene, and it was interesting to compare the perception of them in the mid-90's to what it is now. Still very much worth the read.

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You don't need to be a golfer to enjoy this one

Excellent work on a frustrating and fun game. The background info was particularly interesting.

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On those magnificent days on which your drives split the fairway down the middle and your wedge shots leave you putting for birdie, you think: "I wonder if I could do this for a living." After all, guys in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, guys no one heard of until recently, are making planeloads of money on the various golf tours (and buying private planes to take them from one big-money tournament to the next). A Good Walk Spoiled is a bit of a reality check. John Feinstein chronicles the struggles of the top golfers in the game, as well as those trying to get onto the PGA Tour. These are gifted players who've devoted their lives to the game, and on any given day they could just flat out stink. A Good Walk Spoiled is a completelyengaging book from first page to last, a wonderfully observed and masterfully told story of pain and profit in the world's most frustrating sport.

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