The match: the day the game of golf changed forever
โ Scribed by Mark Frost
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Year
- 2010;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Edition
- First Hachette books trade edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1401309615
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The year: 1956. Four decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery has just made a bet with fellow millionaire George Coleman. Lowery claims that two of his employees, amateur golfers Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, cannot be beaten in a best-ball match. Lowery challenges Coleman to bring any two golfers of his choice to the course at 10 a.m. the next day to settle the issue. Coleman accepts the challenge and shows up with his own power team: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with fourteen major championships between them. In Mark Frost's peerless hands, complete with the recollections of all the participants, the story of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day--legendarily known in golf circles as the greatest private match ever played--comes to life with powerful, emotional...
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