Tales from Q School Inside Golf's Fifth Major

by Feinstein, John

• ISBN13: 9780316014328
• ISBN10: 031601432X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-05
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the final stop on the down escalator for fading stars. The annual PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament is one of the most grueling competitions in any sport. Every fall, veterans and talented hopefuls sweat through six rounds of hell at Q school, as the tournament is universally known, to get a shot at the PGA Tour, vying for the 30 slots available. The grim reality: If you don't make it through Q school, you're not on the PGA tour. You're out. And those who make it to the sixday finals are the lucky ones: hundreds more players fail to get through the equally grueling first two stages of the event. John Feinstein tells the story of the players who compete for these coveted positions in the 2005 Q school as only he can. With arresting accounts from the players, established winners, rising stars, the defeated, and the endlessly hopeful, America's favorite sportswriter unearths the inside story behind the PGA Tour's brutal all-ornothing competition.

Author Biography

John Feinstein is the bestselling author of Last Dance, Next Man Up, Let Me Tell You a Story (with Red Auerbach), Caddy for Life, Open, The Punch, The Last Amateurs, The Majors, A Good Walk Spoiled, A Civil War, A Season on the Brink, Play Ball, Hard Courts, and two novels. He writes for Inside Sports, Golf,Tennis Magazine and Basketball America and is a regular commentator on NPR and CBS.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Dreams (and Nightmares) Come True	p. 13
Forty Years Ago...	p. 25
In the Beginning	p. 42
Nine Hundred and Seventy-three Dreamers	p. 59
Nineteen and Ties	p. 75
On to November	p. 94
Lake Jovita Blues	p. 114
Moving Day	p. 127
The Unkindest Cuts of All	p. 145
What Is, Is	p. 160
Endings	p. 181
Six Days	p. 195
"This Isn't a Sprint"	p. 218
Cold and Wind and... Cold	p. 232
Beginning of the End	p. 256
Go Low or Bust	p. 269
Final Countdown	p. 282
Hawaii, Here We Come	p. 291
Epilogue: December 2006	p. 319
Afterword: 2007	p. 329
Acknowledgments	p. 337
Index	p. 343
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.