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Title: The Masters: Library Edition by Curt Sampson, Barrett Whitener ISBN: 0-7861-2417-2 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $56.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.61 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: fascinating, entertaining look at golf's greatest tournament
Comment: I don't think there's a better golf writer, or for that matter sports writer, in today's book world than Mr. Sampson. He can turn a phrase as well as John Updike, and he's the kind of writer who could write about paint drying and make it fascinating. His profiles of the men involved in making the Masters what it is today--weirdo Cliff Roberts, tragic golf great Bobby Jones, and even Dwight Eisenhower--are great. There's a good balance of behind-the-scenes power broking and great golf throughout the years. But what makes this book even better, what raises it to a higher level, is its examination of the relationship of the town of Augusta to the elitist Augusta National Club. It's fascinating to read about what the townspeople think of the club, and how some of them--like singer James Brown, and boxer Beau Jack--have interacted and been affected by the racist Club. There's a tremendous amount of texture in Sampson's descriptions, enough to justify the comparisons to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Sampson also, by the way, wrote another classic golf book entitled The Eternal Summer: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Year. It's out of print but one of the most enjoyable golf books I've ever read.
Someone should also reprint Sampson's insightful book on pro basketball, Full Court Pressure (a lousy title for the best book on the NBA since The Breaks of the Game). It came and went a few years ago and deserves to be more widely read.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Masters: The real story
Comment: Author Curt Sampson captures the birth and life of one of the most famous sporting events in the world, The Masters golf tournament. Played annually in Augusta, Georgia, this prestigious golf tournament has become the new face of golf. Mr. Sampson shows us how this once unknown place, turned into a sanctuary for some of the greatest golfers of all time. He gets deep into how it was started by a group of New York business men, only 68 years after the Civil War. He shows us how although, one of the most famed golf course in the world has always been dampered by the reputation for being a racist society. He explains how that when Tiger Woods won the Masters in 1997, Augusta and the Masters had come full swing from what it once was. This book goes well into detail about things the common person would have never known or been able to find out. Although, occasionally drags on about the birth of this event. this book has solid content and gives information that you would have never known otherwise. I recommend this book to any golf enthusist.
Rating: 5
Summary: Provocative Insights into The Club and Tournamet
Comment: If Sampson's probe is anywhere near the truth, it surely smudges the high place we give to Augusta and The Masters.
Certainly, it still revolves around Jones, and it always has. The legend of this amateur and supposed gentleman is tarnished by his association with Roberts and his seizure of power and control of what has become golfing legend.
Without the champion's name and backing and tournament, The Masters and Augusta would be just another club and tour stop. But from the outset it was Bobby who kept it together. Then the illness and pulling away, and the inroads of Cliff and the rest is history, here well documented by one of the great golf writers. Sampson again weaves his literary magic with different piercing vignettes of the personalities and events which have led to Augusta lore and legend.
Story upon story from various facets permeate this fluid read--from club caddie to townfolk to neglected member and player -- one is given much to contemplate.
The tales are superb, sampling but a few: the caddie deliberately overclubbing Robert's opponent on a Par 3 course contest; Dave Marr's respone to Arnie that even his divot cleared Rae's Creek on 15; the asst. pro's wife being offered big money for the rope marker that only quandred off souvenir sales.
Augusta appears to be the premier "ole boys" club. If you want scoop about it's past and insights possibly into its present, this read will begin that path.
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Title: The Making of the Masters : Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament by David Owen ISBN: 0684857294 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
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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 Eternal Summer : Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Year by Curt Sampson ISBN: 0375753680 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Hogan : by Curt Sampson ISBN: 1558538674 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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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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