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    The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
    The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
    The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
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    The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus

    Written by Joe Posnanski

    Narrated by George Newbern

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    From “one of the best sportswriters in America” (The Washington Times)—the New York Times bestselling story of the friendship and rivalry between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, whose sparring matches defined the sport for more than a decade.

    The first time they met, at an exhibition match in 1967, Tom Watson was a seventeen-year-old high school student and Jack Nicklaus, at twenty-seven, was already the greatest golfer in the world. Though they shared some similarities—they were both Midwestern boys who had learned how to play golf at their fathers’ country clubs—they differed in many ways. Nicklaus played a game of consummate control and precision. Watson hit the ball all over the place. Nicklaus lacked charm and theatrics, and he was thoroughly despised by most golf fans because he had displaced Arnold Palmer as king of the golf world. Watson was one of those Arnold Palmer fans. Yet over the next twenty years their seemingly divergent paths collided as they battled against each other again and again for a place at the top of the sport and drove each other to ever-soaring heights of accomplishment.

    Spanning from that first match through the “Duel in the Sun” at Turnberry in 1977 to Watson’s miraculous near-victory at Turnberry as he approached sixty, and informed by interviews with both players over many years, The Secret of Golf is Joe Posnanski’s intimate account of the most remarkable rivalry and (eventual) friendship in modern golf.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9781442391321
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    Joe Posnanski

    A senior writer at Sports Illustrated, Joe Posnanski has twice been named the Best Sports Columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors for his work at the Kansas City Star. He is the author of The Good Stuff and The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America, which won the prestigious Casey Award for best baseball book of 2007. His work has also been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing, and he lives with his family in Kansas City, Missouri.

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      Golf biographies of two greatest golfers in the world. Compare and contrast between two different characters, two different styles of approach of the games.
      Lesson for me is keep trying to find your own secret of your game.