The Majors

by Feinstein, John

• ISBN13: 9780316277952
• ISBN10: 0316277959
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

WHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments -- the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship -- known collectively as the majors, John Feinstein takes us where the television cameras never go, both off the links and "inside the ropes", as he reveals the special challenges and rituals, the frustrations and exhilaration, that mark the lives and careers of the world's greatest golfers.

Author Biography

John Feinstein writes for the Washington Post Sunday Magazine and Golf Magazine and is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio

Table of Contents

I. April Flowers
Playing for History	3	(9)
Before the Masters Was the Masters	12	(9)
Return to Augusta	21	(18)
In Search of Green	39	(14)
Warming to the Task	53	(23)
Counting Down...	76	(16)
Jinxes and Crystal, and Then Came the Rain	92	(16)
The Squire and Friends	108	(13)
Freddie and the Sunshine Boys	121	(20)
Moving Day at Augusta	141	(13)
The Tournament Begins on the Back Nine on Sunday	154	(25)
II. Agony and Ecstasy
Square One	179	(15)
The Men of the USGA	194	(8)
Return to the Open	202	(18)
Casey and the Cart	220	(12)
Mind Games	232	(11)
Let the Suffering Begin	243	(18)
Payne and Pain	261	(21)
Over the Edge	282	(14)
Sleepless Nights	296	(6)
Total Control	302	(19)
III. The Original
If It's Nae Wind and Nae Rain, It's Nae Golf	321	(18)
English Summer	339	(10)
Nae Wind and Nae Rain	349	(14)
Hurricane Birkdale	363	(28)
IV. The Final Chapter
High Heavenly Ground	391	(13)
From String Bikinis to Sahalee	404	(13)
Tears, Cheers, and Jeers	417	(16)
Vijay Day	433	(16)
Epilogue	449	(13)
Afterword	462	(15)
Acknowledgments	477	(4)
Index	481