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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
Author
Series
Travis McKinley novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
4) Boy is back
Author
Series
Boy series volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A viral scandal draws notorious celebrity golfer Reed Stewart back to his tiny Indiana hometown, where he reunites with small business owner Becky Flowers in ways that challenge their perceptions about each other.
5) Back spin
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first--and that means unraveling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda's golf-pro husband suddenly makes a run at the U.S. Open championship,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
During his more than forty-year career as champion amateur, dominating professional, and senior star, the Golden Bear has won almost one hundred tournaments around the world. Topping that astounding achievement are his record twenty major-championship victories: two U. S. Amateurs, six Masters, four U. S. Opens, three British Opens, and five U. S. PGA Championships. This is Jack Nicklaus' complete and compelling in-depth account of his legendary major...
9) Tin cup
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A golf pro whose ego and wild ways have kept him from achieving true greatness finally decides to get serious, about a woman and about winning a tournament.
Author
Series
Travis McKinley novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
He was a small-town boy, who burst onto the international golf scene with a dramatic hook shot from deep in the woods to win the Masters- before the game he loved almost killed him. Opening up about the toll that chasing and achieving his dream of being a champion golfer took on his mental health, Bubba Watson shares his powerful story of the breaking point that gave him clarity.
Bubba Watson is known as the big-hitting left-handed golfer who plays...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"At seventeen, Dylan Dethier couldn't help but think he'd never really done anything with his life. So, two months before his freshman year was set to begin, he deferred admission to Williams College. With the reluctant blessing of his parents, Dylan set out on his idea of the Great American Road Trip: to play a round of golf in each of the lower forty-eight states. What began as the teenage wanderlust of a sheltered New England kid became a journey...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade, golf was dominated by one galvanizing figure: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. But as his star has fallen, a new, ambitious generation has stepped up to claim the crown. Once the domain of veterans, golf saw a youth revolution in 2014. In Slaying the Tiger, Shane Ryan introduces us to the volatile, colorful crop of heirs apparent who are storming the barricades of this traditionally old-fashioned sport. As the golf writer for Bill Simmons's...
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When talented young golfer Luke Chisolm blows his shot at making the professional tour, he escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself stranded in Utopia, Texas, where he meets rancher Johnny Crawford who helps him see life from a new perspective.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The golfing master reevaluates his many life experiences, sharing details about familiar stories while offering new anecdotes and his time-tested insights into relationships, business success, and living a life of integrity.
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