The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Frost, Mark

The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781401302788)

Vendor: Mark Frost
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Format: Hardcover
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The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Frost, Mark

The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever

$29.00
The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Frost, Mark

The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever

$29.00
Format: Hardcover
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In 1956, a casual bet between two millionaires eventually pitted two of the greatest golfers of the era -- Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan -- against top amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi.

The year: 1956. Decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery has just made a bet with fellow millionaire George Coleman. Lowery claims that two of his employees, amateur golfers Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, cannot be beaten in a best-ball match, and challenges Coleman to bring any two golfers of his choice to the course at 10 a.m. the next day to settle the issue. Coleman accepts the challenge and shows up with his own power team: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with fourteen major championships between them.

In Mark Frost's peerless hands, complete with the recollections of all the participants, the story of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day-legendarily known in golf circles as the greatest private match ever played-comes to life with powerful, emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

Author: Mark Frost
ISBN-10: 1401302785
ISBN-13: 9781401302788
Publisher: Hachette Books
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2007
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/10/2007 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2007 pg. 905
Booklist 10/15/2007 pg. 19
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
By Mark Frost
By Mark Frost
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Mark Frost is the author of the critically acclaimed The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam, and the bestselling The List of 7, The 6 Messiahs, and Before I Wake. He received a Writer's Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for his work as executive story editor on the acclaimed television series Hill Street Blues, and was the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He lives in Los Angeles and upstate New York.

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