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Title: Q School Confidential : Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament by David Gould ISBN: 0-312-28917-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Well-written, but a little heavy
Comment: Gould is an excellent writer and researcher and this book shows it. The book definitely gives a satisfactory overview of Q School, whether you are just curious about it or a potential qualifier. The problem is that the book goes into far greater depth than the typical reader will care about and I found myself skimming large portions of it. I think most readers expected a book that dealt with today's Q School, how it works, and colorful anecdotes from the past years.
However, the book is bloated with the school's history which I was not particularly interested in. In fact, the greater part of the book focused on the history, rather than the contemporary structure, which is what most of us are curious about.
There isn't anything else like this out there to my knowledge, so if you are really curious about Q School then by all means buy it. But be prepared for less info about contemporary players you know and love, and more about the obscure and confusing history of Q School.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing, Difficult to read as leisure reading
Comment: I picked this book up for some light, entertaining reading but the overall structure is so garbled that I gave up in the final chapter when I realized it had run out of time to improve.
The beginning of this book tried to outline the history of the Q School, but jumped around in time so much that it was very difficult to get a good grasp on the chronology of events.
There are lots of anecdotes as promised in the promo literature, but for the most part they each about 2-4 paragraphs long and not nearly in depth enough to get a sense of the characters involved. Some of them don't have a real point (Golfer A has 5 good rounds, he needs just one more to get his card and is very upset, he has a good round and the story becomes a non-story). They are strung together often in an unrelated way.
Finally, the last third of the book is appendices showing results from all the Q-Schools in history - nice for historians, but extra weight to carry around for the casual reader. I guess it gives the book more heft when you're looking at it in the store.
Some anecdotes are entertaining and I did learn a little about Q-School, so I did give up a couple stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Q Review
Comment: If you've ever watched golf on television and thought "Yeah, I can do that," it's time to read Dave Gould's excellent, insightful, and entertaining account of how guys like you would really go about trying to qualify for the PGA Tour. Gould's stories and observations are funny and poignant, and his book captures all the drama and comedy of the people crazy and dedicated enough to try to earn a living playing professional golf. A must read for anyone who's ever thought that maybe, with a little more practice . . .
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Title: Fine Green Line: My Year of Golf Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours by JOHN NEWPORT ISBN: 0767901177 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Tin Cup Dreams : A Long Shot Makes it on the PGA Tour by Michael D'Antonio ISBN: 0786886471 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 09 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf by Ben Hogan ISBN: 0671612972 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 20 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Duel in the Sun : Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus in the Battle of Turnberry by Michael Corcoran ISBN: 0743203100 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Foursome : A Novel by Troon McAllister ISBN: 0767905725 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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