The U.S. Open: Golf's Ultimate Challenge [VINTAGE 1996]

Sommers, Robert

Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York, 1996

Beschreibung

As new condition green boards with a black spine and light green spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Epilogue; Appendices; Selected Bibliography; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "In this new edition of The U.S. Open: Golf's Ultimate Challenge, veteran golf writer Robert Sommers provides the definitive history of this glorious event. Sommers follows the Open year by year - and often recounts historic rounds hole by hole - as he captures the drama of golf's greatest championship. Sommers offers memorable portraits of all the great players who have competed. We meet Willie Anderson, who dominated the Open at the turn of the century, winning four times in five years, and Francis Ouimet, the young American amateur who shocked the sports world by defeating the greatest player of the time, Harry Vardon, in a playoff for the 1913 Open championship. Sommers recounts how Walter Hagen, who had faded in the final round in 1913, almost quit golf for baseball, until a friend paid his way to the 1914 Open, which Hagen won. He describes Bobby Jones's close victory in the 1930 Open (helped by a controversial decision by referee Prescott Bush), the third leg of the famous Grand Slam, and he shows how Ben Hogan - still in pain from a terrible car accident almost 18 months earlier - survived a grueling Open at Merion, with both legs wrapped in bandages, to win in a playoff. Readers will also find vivid accounts of Arnold Palmer's stirring charge from behind at Cherry Hills (as well as his stunning debacle on the final nine at Olympic), Ken Venturi's moving victory at Congressional while fighting heat and severe dehydration, and Jack Nicklaus's face-to-face duel with Isao Aoki at Baltusrol. The new edition brings the book completely up to date, now covering the years 1987 through 1995, including Curtis Strange's triumphs in 1988 and 1989; Tom KIte's blunders at Oak Hill, where he lost a three-stroke lead on one hole, and his scrambling victory at Pebble Beach; and Corey Pavin's gritty performance at Shinnecock HIlls. The book also features up-to-date statistics on the Open and a year-by-year summary of the event. Here then is a vivid look at the ultimate golfing event, as Robert Sommers takes us inside the ropes and lets us watch, shot by shot, some of the greatest rounds in Open history. Equally important, he paints insightful portraits of the players themselves - whether Bobby Jones, or Gene Sarazen, or Ben Hogan, or Tom Watson - showing us what they had to overcome to win, both on and off the course, giving us a better sense of what makes a true champion." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004194

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The U.S. Open: Golf's Ultimate Challenge [VINTAGE 1996]
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 2nd Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine