Synopsis
Day-to-day life on the professional golf circuit from the perspective of a moderately successful golfer.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-03-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 272 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
Life on the PGA Tour is usually seen through the eyes of its stars. But for every Watson or Pavin there are a hundred young men like Carl Paulson. With raw talent, fierce determination, and steady practice, he's managed to find success and victory in the world of professional golf--but he's also learned that life isn't easy even once you've made it to the PGA Tour. Here he tells the story from behind the scenes: the nitty-gritty of sponsorships, endorsement pools, and priority rankings, Shoney's dinners and pay-per-view motel movies, beers with the boys and long-distance calls home, in a book that reveals the unbearable anxieties, the indescribable joys, the constant competition--and the maddening, marvelous heart of the game.
Paulson reveals the unbearable anxieties, the indescribable joys, the constant competition--and the maddening, marvelous heart of golf.
Industry Reviews
All weekend golfers will wonder what the world of a PGA player is like. Paulson can tell them, because before he fell back to the nether-world of the Nike Tour, he traveled the PGA circuit in 1995 and 1996. This golf book has the usual shot-by-shot fare, but Paulson's distinguishing theme is the unglamorous nuts and bolts of tour life. It is an expensive, nomadic one built on airports, fast-food joints, motels, and stark dread of the PGA's qualifying tournament. A relaxing, illuminating view of the battles at the bottom of the leader board.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Taylor
This book chronicles how Paulson rose to be one of the best rookies on the Professional Golfers Association Tour. . . . [It] offers a common perspective on what it is like to crack the tour. The reader learns about the circuit, the sponsors, travel, and rankings and comes to appreciate the author's place on the tour, poised somewhere between anonymity and the glamour that surrounds Tiger Woods or Greg Norman. One man's dream of becoming a professional golfer is good reading and will fit in larger golf collections.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Little
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