The Big May Golf Book Giveaway: Day 4

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Note: this contest is now closed. A winner will be selected and notified via e-mail, and an announcement will be made on or before May 31, 2010.  Thanks for all the great entries!

We  made it!  Here we are on the fourth and final day of the Big May Golf Book Giveaway. We’ve come a long way and now here we are on the last giveaway (for now!).

The book today is Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf, by John Feinstein.  Moment of Glory takes a close look at the 2003 season, specifically the four majors, where a group of unlikely underdogs took advantage of Tiger Woods’ down season.

Here’s some information from the book’s publisher, Hachette Book Group:

After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown players would seize the day, rising to become champions in his wake.

Mike Weir–considered a good golfer but not a great one–triumphed in The Masters, becoming the first Canadian to win a Major. Jim Furyk emerged victorious in the U.S. Open. In the British Open, Ben Curtis became the only player since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to prevail on his first time out, and Shaun Micheel came from nowhere to prevail at the PGA Championship. How does one moment of glory affect the unsung underdog for years to follow?

Feinstein chronicles the champions’ ups and downs, giving readers an insider’s look into how victory (and defeat) can change players’ lives.

I’m really looking forward to reading this book.  I haven’t read many of Feinstein’s other books, but I read and reviewed Are You Kidding Me? about the epic battle between an aging Rocco Mediate and an injured Tiger Woods, and found it to be thoroughly enjoyable.

In fact, I just skimmed that review from last year and noticed that I actually referred to it as “thoroughly enjoyable” there too.  So, either I’m a broken record with a limited vocabulary, or I really did find it to be thoroughly enjoyable.  Either way, I have similar expectations for Moment of Glory.  I’ll report back in my detailed review some time in the coming weeks.

OK, enough of me babbling, let’s award this book to a lucky winner.

The Contest

Please note that the contest is only open to residents of the United States and Canada. However, I encourage everyone to feel free to participate in the conversation.  Just let me know if you’re not from the United States or Canada so your entry will not be included in the drawing.

To enter for a chance to win this book, tell me who your favorite golf underdog is, and why.  It can be someone current or someone from the past.

We’ll use the term “underdog” kind of loosely. You can define it how you see fit.  By far, my favorite golf underdog is John Daly. He wasn’t always an underdog, but he’s had some rough patches and is working on getting back to prior glory. Right now, many people don’t give him much of a shot, but that doesn’t mean I’m not rooting hard for him.

Your underdog might be someone most people have never heard of.  It might even be Ben Hogan (I’ll leave out why, in case someone wants to use him as their entry).  It’s completely up to you.

The contest will remain open for one week.  The winner will be chosen by random drawing. Be sure to tune in for the rest of the contests this week.  Winners will not be disqualified from winning the other contests so be sure to get your entries in for all of them.

Please review the comment policy before entering.  Any entries that violate the comment policy will be discarded.

Winners will be notified via e-mail, so please be sure to leave a valid e-mail address with your entries.  I will also publish a summary post at the conclusion of all four contests. The book will be shipped to the winner directly from Hachette Book Group. No P.O. boxes, please.

Good luck!  I’m looking forward to reading all your entries.

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Be sure to enter the other contests this week:

Big May Golf Book Giveaway, Day 1 – Golf Courses of the World: 365 Days
Big May Golf Book Giveaway, Day 2 – GOLF Magazine Private Lessons
Big May Golf Book Giveaway, Day 3 – Bad Lies