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A golf book worth reading.(Paper Tiger : An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros )(Brief article)

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From: Esquire
Date: 20060501
Author:Granger, David

MOST GOLF BOOKS, unless written by Dan Jenkins or P. G. Wodehouse, are bullshit. If you are a player, you can tell that the writer can't play, that he's never seen someone who can, and that he's not yet accepted the fact that he will never be able to. Tom Coyne used to think he could play, until he spent a year trying to improve enough to play in the PGA Tour's Qualifying School. That he didn't make it is not the point of Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros (Gotham Books, $26). The point is the vast distance between an excellent golfer (which Coyne is; he ...

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