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Title: The Making of the Masters : Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament by David Owen ISBN: 0-684-85729-4 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book aided by original source documents
Comment: Over the years many untrue articles have appeared concerning Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters. This was probably due to the very private nature of the club which I'm sure rubs some people the wrong way. So to get back at this secret rich man's club, some journalists made up stories and repeated them for years. Now that the archives have finally been opened we are better able to judge the facts. Mr. Owen clears up many of these past inaccuracies in the last third of the book. He also shows us just how "touch and go" the whole enterprise was in the early years. The photographs and maps are worth the price alone and the history of the club is interesting to read. If you have ever been to Augusta you understand what the word "perfection" really means. This book is similar to Curt Sampson's "Hogan" in that it finally dispels much of the nonsense that has been written about these two remarkable gentlemen.
Rating: 3
Summary: Exhaustive research ruined by an agenda
Comment: The book was quite interesting and the author apparently researched it very thoroughly. Time after time, Owen refutes (quite convincingly) a number of well-known stories about Augusta National and Clifford Roberts.
The problem with the book is that Owen seems to have written the book to support the following hypotheses: (1) members at Augusta National have not been nor are the racists (in the context of their times) that they have been portrayed as in the mass media, (2) Cliff Roberts was the most misunderstood man in modern history, (3) Without Roberts, TV golf coverage would have been set back 30 years.
The book's one redeeming quality is the way that Owen methodically refutes what have become generally accepted facts over time (for example, that Jack Whitaker was banned from Augusta for 15 years for describing the fans (whoops, patrons) of the Masters as a mob. After reading this, I'm convinced that it didn't happen that way). But Owen adds little new material that you could not find in the Samson or Eubanks books. Owen often goes out of his way to contradict much of what is in Samson's book, and while he claims he is not trying to "pick on Samson," it sure sounds that way to me.
What Owen ends up with is a PR piece for Augusta, which is too bad, because the book is well-written and well paced.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Fat Rich Guys At Augusta Can Buy Anything
Comment: Apparently, when Curt Sampson, a highly-regarded and critically acclaimed author, penned his book about The Masters, it ticked off the members there even more so than did Martha Burk. David Owen is a journeyman writer who hacks a column for one of the golf magazines. He was paid by Augusta National to write a rebuttal to Sampson's book. A big deal was made of the fact that Owen was given "exclusive access" to club archives.
All is sweetness, light and goodness among the azaleas and loblolly pines, heaven knows. Owen even goes so far as to negatively mention Sampson's work by name (tacky). If you don't smell the odor of rotten eggs by now, you probably think Hootie Johnson is an intellectual and a feminist at heart. (Hootie, if you had just thrown the letter away, you could have avoided this whole mess! That was flat-out dumb.) However, maybe Mr. Owen will get to write another book with exclusive access to Augusta's archives, regarding their valiant efforts to find a female member. Remember your integrity, David - that means once you're bought, you stay bought. Advice: unless you're a member at Augusta National, don't waste your time and money on this drivel.
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Title: The Masters : Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia by Curt Sampson ISBN: 0375753370 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Augusta National & the Masters: A Photographer's Scrapbook by Frank Christian, Cal Brown ISBN: 1886947112 Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Augusta : Home of the Masters Tournament by Steve Eubanks ISBN: 0767902157 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Masters: A Hole-By-Hole History of America's Golf Classic by David Sowell ISBN: 1574885669 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf by Mark Frost ISBN: 0786869208 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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