The Greatest Game Ever Played - Softcover

Frost, Mark

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9781401308124: The Greatest Game Ever Played

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401308120 ISBN 13: 9781401308124

Publisher: Kingswell, 2005

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 08 Pages: 496 in Publisher: Hyperion Now in paperback. the U.S. Golfing Association's Best Golf Book of 1913 of the Year.In. Golf's first superstar went It was up against a green 20-year-old amateur. the birth of modern golf. Harry Vardon and Francis Ouimet came from different worlds and different generations. but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths that would collide in the most spectacular match the sport has ever known. Vardon had escaped a life of poverty in itain to achieve universal recognition as the greatest champion in the game's history. Ouimet. a virtual unknown from Massachusetts. was only three years removed from his youthful career as a lowly caddie and worshipped Vardon. When these unlikely opponents finally came together in their legendary battle at the 1913 US Open. the world's reaction to its remarkable drama and hear...

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An extraordinary book...[with] passages that were so convincing they made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up (THE TIMES)

Mark Frost has done a wonderful job of capturing the moment of golf's awakening in America. His work is thoroughly researched (Ben Crenshaw, 1999 US Ryder Cup Captain)

Brilliantly told... marries social history with sporting biography...vivid, often moving, portraits of the two protagonists (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

[A] great insight into how golf got its start in America, and the man who really introduced it: Francis Ouimet (Ken Venturi)

Book Description:

What SEABISCUIT was to the early years of modern racing, THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED is to the birth of modern golf.

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