Bud, Sweat and Tees : A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour
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Unless your name is Tiger Woods, there are no easy rides on the PGA Tour–particularly your first year–and no one’s ever confused fun-loving Rich Beem’s game with the Tiger’s. Still, Sports Illustrated’s Alan Shipnuck struck gold by picking Beem and his rookie season as subjects to chronicle in Bud, Sweat, & Tees: A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour. To begin with, he found a colorful player with a renegade personality who actually managed to confound the odds and po…
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Entertaining, bawdy but sometimes poignant look at two very complicated lives that intersect on the golf course. The serious, introspective side of the book is balanced by the off-the-course exploits of drinking in the clubhouse and partying in strip bars. Alan Shipnuck expands on the humorous themes in golf that he writes about in his. . . column. His youthful, energetic style is perfect for a holiday read.
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If you follow the game of professional golf, this is the best book ever writtten about The PGA Tour. John Winestein wishes he had written this book. It chronicles what it is like as a bottom feeder in experience, as well as how that all gets changed around through “blood, sweat and tears. ” The two principals of the book, Rich Beem, aspiring PGA Pro and Steve Duplantis, his caddie are real people with real problems and real answers,. . . sometimes. Beem has burst even further onto the PGA scene since this was written by winning The International and the PGA Championship in back to back outings in 2002. That will no doubt be the subject of another book, but it cannot surpass the brutal honesty and interest of this first effort. You must not pass this by, if golf is a part of your life.