American Triumvirate Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf

Name: American Triumvirate Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf
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ISBN: 9780307473554

ISBN-10: 0307473554

ISBN-13: 9780307473554

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Authors: James Dodson

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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 Bobby Jones (winning the Grand Slam as an amateur in 1930) had faded in the public’s imagination—golf’s popularity fell year after year, and as a spectator sport it was on the verge of extinction. This was the…

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List price: $27.99
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.95" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Prologue: Ode to Billy Joe



Year of Wonders



The Power of Three



The Golden Age



The Christmas Match



The University of Golf



Sam Versus the World



Breakthrough and Heartbreak



Redemption



The War Within



Mr. Golf



An Unexpected Open



Then There Were Two



Hollywood Comeback



Immortality



Last Hurrahs


Epilogue: Endings and Beginnings


Acknowledgments


Bibliography