Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science, and the Future of Golf | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin Cook
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 17764
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592403948
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352
EAN: 9781592403943
ASIN: 1592403948
Publication Date: August 21, 2008
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Product Description
A look inside the high-pressure creation of the new breed of superstar golfers
No longer the realm of quaint traditions and a few weekly hours practicing chip shots, junior golf has evolved into a fierce training ground, where ultra-high- tech cameras provide cutting-edge swing analysis and young players spend almost every waking hour on the driving range. Reporting from the front lines of this brave new game, veteran golf journalist Kevin Cook spends a year inside the guarded, security-gated David Leadbetter Golf Academy, a three-hundred- acre golf mecca where teenagers attend an on-campus high school and live in dorms alongside state-of- the-art putting greens, video facilities, and manicured linksat a cost to their parents of more than $100,000 a year. As often as not, the parents are more driven than the kids.
Driven also explores the scientific knowledge that has allowed upstarts to uncork 320-yard drives and to play better than Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson played when they were juniors long agoway back in the 1990s. Cook's subjects include teen superstar Michelle Wie and her pushy parents; Ty Tyron, the youngest player to ever win a Tour card (now a burnout at the age of twenty- three); Mu Hu, expected by his Chinese fans to be the Yao Ming of golf; and tennis superstar Ivan Lendl's daughter, Isabelle, who might be the next Annika Sorenstam.
Destined to change the way the world perceives the game, Driven is a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at golf's next generation.
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Making Tomorrow's Great Players August 26, 2008
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For how closely golf is followed by the golf media and avid fans, not many details are known about the burgeoning golf academies. Thanks to access granted by David Leadbetter and several families, author Kevin Cook is able to shed light on the nearly invisible world of high-powered, test tube, uberphenom golf.
The book offers more insight into the lives of Ty Tryon, Michelle Wie, Sean O'Hair, and the next wave of top juniors moving on to professional golf like the Lendl sisters or Peter Uihlein. You will also be treated to Cook's theory on the path all tournament golfers should take in order to eliminate the mistakes that could derail their promising careers. To do this, "Driven" not only looks at junior golf, but also the careers of Eldrick Woods, Nick Faldo, and Nick Price.
Well researched, well organized, and well written, I think you'll enjoy "Driven".
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