A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour
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A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour description
On those magnificent days on which your drives split the fairway down the middle and your wedge shots leave you putting for birdie, you think: "I wonder if I could do this for a living." After all, guys in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, guys no one heard of until recently, are making planeloads of money on the various golf tours (and buying private planes to take them from one big-money tournament to the next). A Good Walk Spoiled is a bit of a reality check. John Feinstein chronicles the struggles of the top golfers in the game, as well as those trying to get onto the PGA Tour. These are gifted players who've devoted their lives to the game, and on any given day they could just flat out stink. A Good Walk Spoiled is a completely engaging book from first page to last, a wonderfully observed and masterfully told story of pain and profit in the world's most frustrating sport. |
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A Good Idea Spoiled
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This book has not aged well. It successfully recaps the 1994 season, but fails in nearly every other regard. It doesn't give a great sense of what it is like to play on the PGA Tour, it offers little new information, it covers too much territory too thinly, and most damaging of all, it is boring.
Much of the book reads like a newspaper recap of the year's highlights. It uses a dry and repeatable format that doesn't give the reader much more than scores and a bland summary of events. For those not interested in this particular season, the book has little to offer.
Feinstein does track individual golfers, but it's nearly impossible to care about any of them because they all feel like carbon copies of one another. There are too many examples of the pretty good player who is so close to breaking through, but instead is constantly struggling to make cuts, keep his card, stop playing the Nike Tour, etc. Also too many examples of the established professional golfer who isn't in danger of losing his card, but can't recapture the swing he had when he was really successful. Everything runs together in a forgettable blur. Feinstein presents John Daly as spoiled brat (which is no doubt accurate), but Daly is one of the few people in the book whose escapades don't put the reader to sleep.
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