On a fateful day in 1964, Alistair Cooke was dragged into Van Cortland Park in New York City to play his first game of golf. He was immediately hooked, and golf became his greatest passion, even though he called it Òa method of self-torture, disguised as a game.Ó No one has written more brilliantly or more lovingly about golf than he does here. GOLF gathers together for the first time the best of CookeÕs pieces on what he called Òthe marvelous maniaÓ and showcases the incomparable wit and mischievous charm that made Cooke one of the greatest journalists and broadcasters of the twentieth century. Watch as he describes Arnold Palmer playing in 102-degree heat in San Antonio, dapper Gary Player winning the U.S. Open at Creve Coeur, Missouri, and Jack Nicklaus playingÑand winningÑalmost everywhere.

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1951-1968talk about america
The americans
The patient has the floor
The American Home Front: 1941-1942 (Playaway Adult Nonfiction)