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Golf Dads: Fathers, Sons, and the Greatest Game | 
 enlarge | Author: Curt Sampson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
Buy New: $3.80
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 115922
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618812482
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3520922
EAN: 9780618812486
ASIN: 0618812482
Publication Date: April 9, 2008
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Product Description
The interplay between fathers and sons has long been one of golf's most essential and enigmatic relationships. In Golf Dads, the best-selling writer and former touring professional Curt Sampson brings to life ten remarkable stories of golfers, their fathers, and the game that brings them together. The stories feature well-known subjects such as Michelle Wie, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, and David Feherty, as well as some surprises, such as six-year-old phenom A.J. Beechler--not yet known to the world.
"This is a book about fathers," Sampson writes, "using golf as a wedge to pry open a few insights." We get up close with the embarrassing Byung Wook Wie and his talented daughter at a PGA Tour event in Pennsylvania; travel to the Mexican jungle for bogeys and butterflies with a club pro bearing his father's ashes in a black Hogan shag bag; journey to San Francisco for transplant surgery for a golf pro father from his golf pro son; feel the wonder and weight of fathering a six-year-old golfing sensation whose future is too bright to see clearly.
For fans of James Dodson's Final Rounds, Golf Dads is sure to resonate with anyone who has been handed a worn club by his father or who has watched his child swing a stick at a rock and marveled at the possibilities.
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Unfilled Potential May 13, 2008
Despite my two stars rating, I really enjoyed this book. Why the mediocre rating? Because I found myself wanting a lot more. As a weekend golfer and one who watches a lot of golf on televison -- I thoroughly enjoyed the stories about Wie, Trevino, Feherty and Jacobsen. But the rest of stories were just okay but not ones I can relate to. This subject matter had so much potential and I just think Sampson came up short. Recommendation: If you need a quick golf read, then find a used copy because its not worth the $20. I love Sampson's books but this one failed to live up to my expectations. I guarantee that if Mr. Sampson did a sequel it would be much, much better.
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