A Quick Nine Before Dark: A Life in Golf (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781732222793)

After four decades of storytelling, award-winning sportswriter Bill Fields shares his remembrances of growing up in the North Carolina Sandhills and his long career in golf journalism. The author is distinct among golf writers for having been born in Pinehurst, arguably America' s golf capital. This is a poignant memoir of a person, place, and profession. Born in Pinehurst, North Carolina in 1959, Bill Fields received the 2020 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism from the PGA of America for contributions to golf, joining previous honorees including Herbert Warren Wind, Dan Jenkins, Jack Whitaker, Dave Kindred, and Dave Anderson. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Fields was a longtime senior editor at Golf World magazine and a senior editor at Golf Illustrated after stints as a newspaper sportswriter. He currently writes The Albatross, a golf newsletter, and has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Met Golfer, and ESPNW.com.