Playing Through: Modern Golf's Most Iconic Players and Moments - Couverture rigide

Moriarty, Jim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803278659 ISBN 13 : 9780803278653

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2016

Synopsis

The game of golf has been witness to dramatic change since the early 1980s. Technology has relegated polished wooden drivers and wound balls covered with balata to the dustbin of history. The world's great courses have been stretched unfathomable lengths to counter the game's modern champions and the distances they hit the ball. In the end, though, it still comes down to the players.

Jim Moriarty has focused his attention on the glory, sacrifice, success, and despair of these champions. In Playing Through, he captures the essence of this most recent, most transformative chapter in golf's long history. He writes of the last great rivalry: Jack Nicklaus versus Tom Watson; the rise of the European juggernaut with Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo; the Ryder Cup spectacles of 1999 and 2012 and the romance of team golf; the tragic loss of Payne Stewart and Ballesteros, both gone too soon; the emergence of the Australians, South Africans, South Americans, and Pacific Rim players in the Presidents Cup; and the man who ruled golf, Tiger Woods.

Golf may have changed in the last thirty-five years, but Moriarty's words show that no matter how far the ball flies, it still pits players against themselves, the elements, and their opponents to remain the game we all know and love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jim Moriarty was a contributing writer and photographer for Golf Digest magazine from 1985 to 2001, a contributing writer for Golf World magazine from 2001 to 2015, and is currently a freelance golf writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803278659
• ISBN 13: 9780803278653
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible