Written by two golf pros will have won major tournaments – – one of whom has one more PGA tournaments than anyone and is in the Golf Hall of Fame. The third author is the most experienced NCAA golf coach in modern history. These authorities take you from the very beginning golf knowledges and into the intermediate level. It gives you a full understanding of the game and how to play it. It has been called by professionals, "the best book ever written for beginning golfers.

In this celebration of three legendary champions on the centennial of their births in 1912, one of the most accomplished and successful writers about the game explains the circumstances that made each of them so singularly brilliant and how they, in turn, saved not only the professional tour but modern golf itself, thus making possible the subsequent popularity of players from Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods.During the Depression—after the exploits of Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen and...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Herbert Warren Wind Book AwardPaul Runyan—the Arkansas farm boy who stood five feet, six inches and weighed 130 pounds—shocked the golf world by defeating long and lean, sweet-swinging Sam Snead in the finals of the 1938 PGA Championship, thus earning the nickname “Little Poison.” Runyan did more than beat Snead: he shellacked him as decisively as David toppled mighty Goliath. His resounding victory was so convincing, so dominant, that even...