The Wicked Game:Arnold Palmer,Jack Nicklaus,Tiger Woods and the Story of Modern Golf (repost)
Howard Sounes, "The Wicked Game:Arnold Palmer,Jack Nicklaus,Tiger Woods and the Story of Modern Golf"
Publisher: William Morrow | 2004-06-01 | 359 Pages | ISBN: 0060513861 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: William Morrow | 2004-06-01 | 359 Pages | ISBN: 0060513861 | PDF | 2 MB
Golf is sometimes referred to as "the wicked game" because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game – rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever.
When we think about golf – as it is played at its highest level – we think of three names: Tiger Woods, the most famous sports figure in the world today, Arnold Palmer, the father of modern golf, and Jack Nicklaus, the game's greatest champion. In this penetrating, forty-year history of men's professional golf, acclaimed author Howard Sounes tells the story of the modern game through the lives of its greatest icons. With unprecedented access to players and their closest associates, Sounes reveals the personal lives, rivalries, wealth, and business dealings of these remarkable men, as well as the murky history of a game that has been marred by racism and sex discrimination.