Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592402992 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Steven Bushong said Fun read for golfers. A fun read. As an avid, ever-trying to improve golfer, this brought both practical steps and a better appreciation for what the elite in this sport must endure. An amusing look behind the curtain of pro golf.. "What Rudy is to football, Tom Coyne is to golf. Well played Tom!" according to Relhom. If you haver wondered what it would be like to follow your dreams on the golf course, Tom has your answer. A wonderful, humble book that makes you laugh and cry.. Great read for golf addicts A must read if you are one of those people who thinks about golf 2Great read for golf addicts MatF A must read if you are one of those people who thinks about golf 24/7. You can imagine yourself on this journey.. /7. You can imagine yourself on this journey.
Believing that the difference between good and great golfers is consistency, Coyne moves to Florida for the winter for intensive training with swing doctors and sports psychologists, staying out on the course until his hands bleed. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. He faces the inevitable (and sometimes unexpected) setbacks with resigned humor, as he comes to realize that his year's age difference with Tiger Woods is the only thing he'll have in common with the champ. . From Publishers Weekly The title is a sly acknowledgment on Coyne's part of the karmic debt his memoir owes to George Plimpton, but while Plimpton merely finagled his way onto the PGA Tour, Coyne (A Gentleman's Game) sets h
Jim Suttie?Paper Tiger takes readers from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tour, where forty-mile-per-hour winds and a driving rain scare off his Japanese partners. With echoes of Dead Solid Perfect and Who?s Your Caddy? Tom brings his uniquely edgy, deeply human perspective to a game that can simultaneously bring out the best and the worst in everyone who tries to master it.. Charting his journey?which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Everything the big boys have access to, I want double.? Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because