The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
Written by Mark Frost
Narrated by Richard Poe
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The year: 1956. Decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the tenyear-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery has just made a bet with fellow millionaire George Coleman. Lowery claims that two of his employees, amateur golfers Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, cannot be beaten in a best-ball match, and challenges Coleman to bring any two golfers of his choice to the course at 10 a.m. the next day to settle the issue. Coleman accepts the challenge and shows up with his own power team: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game’s greatest living professionals, with fourteen major championships between them.
In Mark Frost’s peerless hands, complete with the recollections of all the participants, the story of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day-legendarily known in golf circles as the greatest private match ever playedcomes to life with powerful, emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense.
Mark Frost
Mark Frost was co-creator, alongside David Lynch, and executive producer of the legendary ABC television series Twin Peaks. He received a Writers Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for the acclaimed television series Hill Street Blues, and in 2005 wrote and produced The Greatest Game Ever Played as a major motion picture from Walt Disney Studios. He is the bestselling author of The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam, and the novels The Second Objective, The List of Seven, and The Six Messiahs. Mark lives in Los Angeles and upstate New York with his wife and son.
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