Sports Golf

From a near paralyzing mountain bike crash, to an attempt to caddie, and finally playing some of the most famous courses in Southwest England, this book is one person's year of setbacks and his efforts to forcibly escape them in hilarious, precarious, and somewhat victorious fashion. This book has become such a passion project for me that I decided to narrate it myself.

The Ball in the Air is reported with Bamberger’s you-are-there intimacy and captures the sweep of time. Pratima finds her way from Nepal to a university golf team in Southern California. Ryan and his father caddie in minor-league events while sleeping in tents, a preamble to Ryan’s becoming the godfather of the popular Monday Qualifier Twitter feed. Sam Reeves, born in rural Georgia during the Depression, becomes a cotton king, the oldest amateur to make the cut at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and the ultimate man for all seasons.

Life is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for 50 bucks a pop. Then, one disaster of a day, Stick's world does a 10-car pile-up. Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems. He'll qualify for the British Open.

Winter left Orchid City six years ago with a broken heart and never once looked back. She put it all in the past and was living the life she always dreamed she'd have. Yet, she was still haunted by those stormy blue eyes. When her parents leave their estate in Winter's name, she has no choice but to return home. And she finds herself face to face with the very person who broke her heart many years ago.

Are you tired of anger and frustration on the golf course? Do you wish you could play more consistently? Whether you want to (1) learn basic golf techniques, (2) improve your consistency, or (3) master the mental part of the game, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know. Stop doing the same thing while expecting different results. Start applying proven strategies to improve your game. I've waded through the plethora of contradictory opinions on golfing tactics and distilled them into straightforward instructions anybody can follow to start seeing steady improvement.

Fifteen years ago, the average male golfer's handicap was 16.2. The average female golfer's handicap was 29. American golfers have not gotten any better. World- renowned performance consultant and sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella now offers The Golf of Your Dreams for the golfer who is determined to get better but hasn't figured out how to go about it.

Are you a college golfer looking to refine your game and unlock your full potential? Or perhaps you're a high school golfer with dreams of playing at the collegiate level. The world of golf holds infinite possibilities. However, along with those possibilities come challenges: the competition is fierce, the road to mastery is complex, and the mental game can be just as tough as the physical one.

Greg Norman is golf's most complex and controversial celebrity and perhaps its most gifted and charismatic player. Winner of more than 70 tournaments, including the 1986 and 1993 British Opens, he has reigned as the world's number-one-ranked golfer for most of a decade and began 1998 as the PGA Tour's career-earnings leader with almost $12 million.

The remarkable true story of a lone genius whose quest to unlock the science behind the perfect swing changed golf forever. In 1939, Homer Kelley played golf for the first time and scored 116. Frustrated, he did not play again for six months; when he did he carded a 77. Determined to understand why he was able to shave nearly 40 strokes off his score, Kelley spent three decades of trial and error to unlock the answer and to recapture that one wonderful day when golf was easy and enjoyable.

This inspiring collection of stories from professionals, caddies, and amateur golfers shares the memorable moments of the game, when, despite all odds, an impossible shot lands in the perfect position; when a simple game of golf becomes a lesson in life. Chapters include: sportsmanship, family, overcoming obstacles, perfecting the game and the nineteenth hole. This is a great read for any golfer, no matter what your handicap.

Every golfer wants to know the critical secrets to bombing drive and dropping strokes from their game almost overnight. But most golfers are looking in the wrong places. That’s where The Small Book of Million Dollar Golf Tips comes in.

Dan Jenkins, sports novelist and writer for Golf Digest, continues the story of Bobby Joe Grooves in Slim and None.

The aging pro-golfer is now 44, and he just has to win a major this time around. Since the days when golfing was done with a shepherd's crook, only seven men have won a major after the age of 44. Bobby Joe figures his chances are slim and none.

Letters to a Future Champion is a loving tribute to the power a mentor can have on an athlete's career. Written by 17-time LPGA Tour winner, two-time major champion, and lead CBS golf reporter Dottie Pepper, this audiobook traces the influence "Mr. Pulver", a retired PGA golf professional, had on her skills, as well as her character, both on the practice range and in the letters the two exchanged after lessons and tournaments. Mr. Pulver would carefully tap out advice a young Dottie would need to rise to the top, sending her nearly 100 letters by the time of his death in 1986.

Seven Days in Augusta is a celebration of what makes the Masters singular and iconic, from the par-3 contest to Amen Corner to Butler Cabin. Mark Cannizzaro goes behind the scenes of the exclusive competition, covering wide-ranging topics including green jacket rituals, tales from The Crow's Nest atop the clubhouse, the extreme lengths some fans have gone to acquire tickets, and what goes on outside the gates during Masters week. Features some of the most memorable and dramatic moments from the tournament's history, this is an essential, expansive look at golf's favorite event.

This long-awaited and updated edition of the wildly popular original publication of Quantum Golf includes new instructional material by world-class golf coach and leadership trainer Kjell Enhager, who shares lessons he has developed with such professionals as Sir Nick Faldo and Annika Sorenstam.

On a wild, windblown bluff high above the Pacific sits one of America's premier golfing destinations, Bandon Dunes. Golf enthusiast Mike Keiser had the dream of building this British-style "links" course on a stretch of Oregon's rugged coast, and Dream Golf is the first all-inclusive account of how he turned his passion into a reality.

This collection of anecdotes—from Golf Digest editor Don Wade—brings out of the locker room and onto the green an engaging treasury of more than 100 of the greatest golf stories ever told from the game's legends: Ben Hogan, Nancy Lopez, Fred Couples, and others. From Augusta National to Royal St. George, this entertaining, intimate, and funny audio takes you onto some of the best courses alongside the greatest players in the world.

Wouldn't you love to lower your average score by five shots this season with minimal effort? Sharpening your putting skill is the quickest and easiest way to lower your scores and enhance your enjoyment of the great game of golf.

120 Golf Lessons will show you the basics to advanced lessons. There are 120 individual golf lessons within this book, with lots of useful information to dramatically improve your golf game. The lessons start at the very beginning to give you helpful hints about playing the game and the equipment you will need. You will then progress to actually playing the game and learn how to avoid many of the problems golfers face. 120 Golf Lessons makes an excellent start to your life as a golfer.

An avid golfer with a demanding career in the greeting card business, Mike Keiser found a new calling on the authentic links courses of Scotland and Ireland. Seized by the beauty of the landscape and the holes running through it, he determined this was how golf was meant to be: inclusive, not private; played on foot, not riding a cart; the courses natural, neither lavish nor contrived. Vowing to transplant this experience to the States, Keiser entered the golf business and, ignoring the advice of experts, built a true links course in Oregon.