One Week in April: The Masters: Stories and Insights from Arnold Palmer, Phil Mickelson, Rick Reilly, Ken Venturi, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, and Man

Book Overview

Forget the birds, flowers, and April showers: in golf, you know spring has sprung when the Masters rolls around. This collection celebrates the famed tournament, as some of America s best-known sportswriterssuch as Grantland Rice and Jim Murrayrecount the event s illustrious history. Fans of the links will take a ride down memory and Magnolia lanes, as they recall great moments in golf, and find out about some of the most touching, humorous, and quirky...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402765371
• ISBN13: 9781402765377
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Sterling Innovation
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Masters Anthology--A Good Read

If you like the Masters, this is a book for you. A collection of some of the greatest, most interesting stories written about America's and the world's greatest golf tournament. Sections give you a good feel for the Masters, how it came to be, how's its run, Augusta National, its traditions and lore. Everything you want to know about the Masters--at least everything you should reasonably want to know--is here. Good read anytime, but especially in late March and early April as Masters week approaches. Should be required reading for a first-time Masters goer. Nothing shocking or controversial here, just good Masters related stories from some of America's best know writers and broadcasters. Good stuff, all. One question does remain, however. How could a book that is supposed to contain some of the best Masters stories ever written not have at least one piece by Furman Bisher, legendary scribe of The Atlanta Journal? In spite of that great, great omission, a good book and a good read. A lipped out birdie.