Ross Greenburg

Ross Greenburg has spent much of his career telling great sports stories, which means he has spent an extraordinary amount of time studying triumph, heartbreak, obsession, pressure, impossible expectations, and people attempting things that seemed like a good idea at the time.

In other words, he was unusually well prepared to write a book about golf.

Ross is best known for producing more than 100 sports documentaries and three celebrated sports films: Miracle, 61* and The 99’ers. Over the course of his career, he helped redefine the sports-documentary genre, telling stories from virtually every major sport while developing projects for networks including Showtime, Epix, NBC, ESPN, and Fox.

His work includes the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning When It Was a Game and When It Was a Game II, the Emmy® Award-winning Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World, and films exploring athletes and teams ranging from Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.

Ross has received more than 100 major television sports awards, including 56 Sports Emmy® Awards, eight Peabody Awards, 21 CableACE Awards, 12 CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and five Monitor Awards.

Those are impressive numbers.

They are, unfortunately, of very little assistance when standing over a six-foot putt.

After decades of documenting athletes at the highest level, Ross now turns his attention to helping ordinary golfers survive eighteen holes with their dignity, scorecard, friendships, and remaining golf balls reasonably intact.