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Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions

A Legacy of Hope

By: Lyle Slovick

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Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions

A Legacy of Hope

By: Lyle Slovick

Golf can be a vexing and cruel game, and teaches us much about ourselves. It has been described as “a contest calling for courage, skill, strategy and self-control. It is a test of temper, a trial of honor, a revealer of character.” In the end, as with most of life, success hinges on the character and spirit we possess. But how would our tempers be tested if we suffered a career-threatening injury from a near-fatal car accident, as Ben Hogan did in the prime of his life? How would our honor be preserved if we faced constant derision and racism both on and off the golf course, as Charlie Sifford encountered his entire career? How would our character be revealed if cancer robbed us of the ability to play the game we loved, as it did to Babe Didrikson Zaharias? Would we give in to self pity, or persevere and keep going? In Trials and Triumphs of Golf’s Greatest Champions: A Legacy of Hope, Lyle Slovick has pulled together the inspirational stories of six golfers and a caddy whose strength of character sustained them against the physical and emotional trials that threatened both their careers and lives. In an era when many athletes have lost their luster as role models, the people in this book—Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Charlie Sifford, Ken Venturi, and Bruce Edwards—offer lessons in perseverance, dignity, humility, and faith. Slovick tells each of their stories with rich detail, including the childhoods that shaped their characters, their rise in the world of professional golf, the crises they faced in their lives, their struggles to keep doing what they loved, and their refusal to give up. They had their flaws, to be sure. But when faced with a true test of will, all showed a strength that inspired those around them. The first book to gather the stories of these golfers into a single volume, Trials and Triumphs of Golf’s Greatest Champions offers a unique blend of characters who shared the same love for a game that gave them the courage and fortitude they needed to face whatever life threw their way. This book will not only interest golfers and fans of the game, it will also inspire those who have suffered their own personal setbacks and show them they are not alone in their trials.

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Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions

A Legacy of Hope

By: Lyle Slovick

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Shadows on the Green: Golf's Scandals, Tragedies, Triumphs, and Offbeat Tales

By: Lyle Slovick

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Shadows on the Green: Golf's Scandals, Tragedies, Triumphs, and Offbeat Tales

By: Lyle Slovick

Walk in the shoes of people from golf's untold and "hidden" past, as SHADOWS ON THE GREEN brings us into their lives and reveals both the destructive and inspiring sides of human nature. The frailtiesand strengthsof men and women are represented equally, allowing us to empathize with their experiences - which were not so different from our own - and consider our own power to do good or bad in this world. These are told in the stories of people who suffered from drug addiction, alcoholism, physical violence, racism, and sexism, as well as stories of amputees, the blind, the aged, and survivors of horrific accidents. All found in golf not only a challenge, but a salvation and expression of their God-given gifts. Among the subjects in the book: - Nathaniel Moore, the self-indulgent son of a rich industrialist was an Olympic golf champion in 1904, but also a morphine addict who died in a Chicago brothel, the victim of an opioid crisis as great as what we face today / - Eben Byers won the 1906 U.S. Amateur but died a gruesome and painful death, one of the many victims of a supposed patent medicine elixir in the 1920s that poisoned him with radium and ate away the bones in his jaw and head / - John Shippen, the first African America to play in the U.S. Open in 1896. Beyond societal pressures he also carried the burden of numerous family crises, beginning with his father's suicide, and estrangements from his wife and children, who valued education and thought his lowly profession meritless / - Lucy Barnes Brown, the winner of the 1895 U.S. Women's Amateur, who has connections to Pebble Beach, one of the most famous courses in the world. Her son was Franklin Roosevelt's friend and roommate at Harvard, and her granddaughter owned the land on which the remodeled fifth hole (designed by Jack Nicklaus) now occupies / - Marion Miley was one of the best amateur golfers in the country when she was brutally murdered in 1941 at the age of 27 / - Cyril Walker won the 1924 U.S. Open, beating the great Bobby Jones, but was a hopeless alcoholic who died in a jail cell / - The "Rabbit Wars" of St Andrews from 1801 to 1821 that threatened the existence of the oldest course in the world / - The book concludes with shorter, fun stories on quirky bits of golf history.

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1716027500

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Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions

Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions

Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions

Trials and Triumphs of Golf's Greatest Champions

Shadows on the Green: Golf's Scandals, Tragedies, Triumphs, and Offbeat Tales

Shadows on the Green: Golf's Scandals, Tragedies, Triumphs, and Offbeat Tales

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