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

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

From â€œone of the best sportswriters in Americaâ€ (The Washington Times)â€”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 similaritiesâ€”they were both Midwestern boys who had learned how to play golf at their fathersâ€™ country clubsâ€”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 â€œDuel in the Sunâ€ at Turnberry in 1977 to Watsonâ€™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 Posnanskiâ€™s intimate account of the most remarkable rivalry and (eventual) friendship in modern golf.

Country	USA
Author	Joe Posnanski
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781476766447
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	1476766444
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2016-06-28
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2016-06-28
Studio	Simon & Schuster

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

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