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 enlarge | Manufacturer: The Free Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $17.99
Buy New: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 16385
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35266
ASIN: B000QTD64W
Publication Date: May 15, 2007
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 Is this a draft? October 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I cannot believe they would let this kind of stuff be published. I am amazed that someone who writes about professional golf for a living could make so many factual errors. This was a waste of money and it's rare I say that about a book. I feel mislead by the description.
This book is of the same ilk as Feinstein's Tales from Q School, but without a consistent human element. You don't follow a group of players through the season. It's basically just highlights from each Tour stop.
The only value I found in this book was that it described the period right after Feinstein's 'Tales'. Interesting to hear about some of the Q School graduates' fates.
 The Page Never Lies October 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I echo the sentiments of the past reviewers of this book. I have been watching the PGA tour religiously for 12+ years since my childhood and thoroughly enjoying recapping each season with friends and family. Naturally, when I saw this book I thought what a great source for some information/highlights that I mayb have missed from the '06 season. Well, the joy of reading the Kings English was sucked out of this book from the start. I wont take the time to reiterate all the spelling, grammatical and factual errors that have already been pointed out in past reviews. But I will point out two errors that I don't believe have been mentioned:
Page 234" "Off the 16th tee Mickelson hit another foul ball, this one a pull left." Chris, this may come as a shock to you, but Phil Mickelson is left handed. A pull for a left handed golfer goes to the right.
Page 252: "Other players were now wielding longer, graphite-shafted drivers with heads the size of toasters, while Woods stubbornly clung to his small-headed, 53-and-three-quarter-inch steel-shafted driver." Come on Chris, 53 and 3/4" driver shaft? Are you kidding me? Tiger's driver shaft was 43 and 3/4". How could you have made that mistake? No tour player (or amateur for that matter) plays a 53" driver shaft....unless, of course, they are over 7'2" in height.
The question has been asked in other reviews, but how could this book get published? And by S&S nonetheless, it just doesn't make sense. Regardless how quickly they wanted to get the book to press someone should have read it and checked for facts and spelling errors. One final error I would like to point out: Page 309: "Back at the office, Rick Lipsey unfailingly helped erase my mistakes. Farrell Evans did that, too..." Rick and Farrell, I don't know you but clearly you do not do as Chris suggests. This is an embarrassment to the author, to the publisher and more importantly, to the game of golf.
Too many errors October 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There were a few stories I hadn't heard before, but they were overshadowed by the numerous factual/ typographical errors. In addition to those noted in other reviews:
- The ACE club is not in Lancaster, PA. And, Lancaster is not just outside of Philadelphia.
- Payne Stewart's putt to win the US Open at Pinehurst was not a "40 foot bomb".
- Tiger Woods' shot at the Canadian Open was out of a fairway bunker, not "heavy rough"
Too many more to list.
 good but horribly edited September 1, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
as a rabid golf fan, i enjoyed the book. but i have to say it is the most poorly edited book i have ever read. in addition to well over 50 spelling and grammatical errors, i counted numerous factual errors. examples, in addition to the ones pointed out by other reviewers:
pg 105 - author says the players in 2007 moved from april to may - it was moved from march to may
pg 168 & 214 - he states goosen's 2005 us open final round score as 81 on one page and 80 on the other
pg 160 - mentions 2000 us open at southern hills, that was '01, '00 open was at pebble
pg 179 - mentions tigers famous 6 iron at canadian open. calls it a shot out of thick rough - it was out of a fairway bunker
does simon and schuster not have fact checkers? its embarassing, thats, what, seven factual errors?....in response to another review the author states he had to fact check quickly to get the book out...thats BS and no excuse, i read it in a day and could have cleaned it up for him in that time. its not 'obvious' as he says, every author i've ever read manages to not to get facts wrong every 30 pages.
in short, only the fact that i love the PGA tour makes this readable. c.l. needs to step up his game to challenge john feinstein....he's playing dicky pride to feinstein's tiger woods right now.
Okay, not great August 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The stories were about what you would expect. The heavy political slant along the way is out of place in a sports book.
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