This Golfing Life

by Michael Bamberger

Book Overview

Michael Bamberger, senior writer at Sports Illustrated and author of the highly acclaimed Wonderland, has been writing about golf for twenty years. He has lived the game as few others have--from his experience as one of the first white, college-educated caddies in 1985, to hanging out with Arnold Palmer at the Masters. This Golfing Life brings together Bamberger's acclaimed, intimate profiles of stars (Tiger, Jack, and Annika to name a few), as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802142753
• ISBN13: 9780802142757
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Yes, THAT Michael Bamberger's next book

Michael Bamberger is the guy whose awesome respect for the integrity of the game forced him, against his better judgment, to abandon his role as a sports reporter and snitch on Michelle Wie at the 2005 Samsung World Championship. On her third round, Wie inadvertently dropped her ball from an unplayable lie one squinchteenth of a percent closer to the 7th hole cup than allowed. Bamberger turned her in -- however, he did so a day AFTER she signed her round 3 scorecard, when the mistake could no longer be rectified. In consequence, the 16-year-old Wie was disqualified from her first tournament as a professional. If you'd like to get inside Bamberger's head and see what makes him tick, by all means read this book instead of removing it and microwaving in a bun, as one fan has suggested.