Without a doubt, Peter Jacobsen holds a place in my dream foursome. He has a reputation as golf’s funnyman, a role which he fills well, but he’s also a fan-friendly, fun, and totally “gets it” when it comes to being a professional in the public eye.
When I picked up a copy of Embedded Balls by Jacobsen with Jack Sheehan, I had high expectations that I’d be getting candid Jacobsen at his best. I wasn’t disappointed.
Chapter List
Memories of Payne
Tinseltown [...]
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The Making of the Masters, by David Owen, is a look at the beginnings of possibly the most prestigious golf tournament in existence today.
Augusta National Golf Club was founded in the 1930’s by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts during the Great Depression. The club very nearly died before it got off the ground.
Decades later, the club has long since achieved financial security and The Masters, one of golf’s four modern majors, has been elevated to the pinnacle of tournament [...]
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The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations is about as accurate a title as I’ve ever seen a book. Edited by Jim Apfelbaum with a foreword by Arnold Palmer, this book is absolutely loaded with golf quotations.
Organized by subject and indexed by name, the book contains several thousand different quotations relating to golf. Subjects range from the definition of what golf is to competition to instruction and everything in between.
Here are a few of my favorites:
“Golf wasn’t meant to [...]
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Being a huge John Daly fan, I was pleased to see his new book as I scanned the bookshelves at my local mega store.
His latest offering, Golf My Own Damn Way: A Real Guy’s Guide to Chopping Ten Strokes off Your Score with Glen Waggoner, is classic Daly. No frills, just straight to the point.
This is Daly’s version of the Little Red Book. It’s a primer of what makes him tick as a player and how you can [...]
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Johnny Miller is known for the candidness he brings to his golf commentating job with NBC. That certainly continues in his book I Call the Shots. Teaming up with Guy Yocom for the book, Miller gives us more of what keeps us tuning into NBC when he’s, well, calling the shots.
If you’re a fan of Johnny Miller, then this book is required reading. It’s an extra strong dose of Johnny. It’s got the same kind of [...]
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