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 enlarge | Author: Tom Callahan
Creator: Buck Schirner
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2499669
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 2.6
ISBN: 1590866533
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352092
EAN: 9781590866535
ASIN: 1590866533
Publication Date: March 25, 2003
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 Fantastic! A golf writing double-eagle** January 30, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me say this up front --- Tom Callahan is an immensely gifted writer. He is able through words to take the trite/boring and turn it into the phenomenally sublime. With an encyclopedic knowlege of all things golf along with up-close-and-personal profiles of current & past players, coaches, and associated fathers, he paints through annecdotes a circular, but no less complete picture of Tiger and his place in the great game of golf. This book is NOT per-se, a purely biographical sketch of Tiger Woods, but more of a wholistic and entertaining presentation of the past, present and future of the game and Tiger's place in it. If you love golf, watch golf, and love to read, you'll get more "bang for your buck" here than any other golf book I know of! And I've read quite a few....
 Not found yet May 27, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
When the writer of a book on the greatest sporting celebrity since Muhammed Ali is a bit of a celebrity himself, there's a clash of egos. The problem with this book is that Tom Callahan, author of In Search of Tiger does not find Tiger Woods at all. Tom finds Tiger's father and a tiny part of his mother, and he does find other players (quite a lot of them) but this book reveals little about Woods himself. There is no question that Tom Callahan is an excellent writer who knows the sports industry intimately. Anyone who loves the sport of golf will probably enjoy this book. It is an easy and worthwhile read. But for anyone looking to reveal the mystique behind Tiger Woods, this book dissapoints.
 KEEP SEARCHING May 16, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
In this latest book about Eldrick Woods, the author takes a different approach in unraveling one of golf's greatest players. Readers should be cautione; this is not a conventional biography of Tiger Woods. What you are given are various anecdotes about Tiger loosely tied together within the historical framework of golf. From the outset this sounds good but you know even less about Tiger than when you started out and find out more about those who have had anything to do with his career. Why learn about Mark O'Mear, Arnold Palmer, Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els, Jack Nicklaus and other golfing greats and then call your book In Search of Tiger? The book is less about Tiger and more about the development of the game and those who impacted upon it. All of the facts about Tiger's career, business and family can be found in other books. Our author, Tom Callahan has sloopily sewed together a series of articles about other golfers and nongolfers who know Tiger and then you aren't sure if they know him at all. I must admit that the writing is good. The historical context and relationship of the players to the game and their fathers is interesting. I did expect more about Tiger and less about every Tom, Dick and Harry who supposidly know him. Tiger Woods fans can add another mediocre book to their collection about Woods but if you want a definitive work on the champion try another text. Keep Searching.
If you love good writing and golf this is a keeper March 25, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A book you can't put down. You will learn more about Tiger in this book than all others combined. The behind the scenes information makes you watch and enjoy Tiger in a whole new light. Tom Callahan is to Tiger what Martin Gilbert is to Churchill. Buy the book.
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