First Sunday in April: The Masters : A Collection of Stories and Insights from Arnold Palmer, Phil Mickelson, Rick Reilly, Ken Venturi, Jack Nicklaus, ... About the Quest for the Famed Green Jacket

Book Overview

Forget the birds, the flowers, and April showers: in golf, you know spring has sprung when the Masters rolls around. Held on the hallowed grounds of the Augusta National Golf Club, and widely broadcast on TV, it's one of the world's most-watched sporting events each year. This collection celebrates that famed tournament, as some of America's best known sportswriters--such as Grantland Rice and Jim Murray--praise the event's illustrious history and traditions. The Masters has provided the stage for golf's most prominent names, and they're all represented on these pages, from Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan to Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to Tiger Woods. Fans (many of whom dream of playing it themselves) will take a ride down memory and Magnolia Lane, as they recall great moments in golf, and find out about some of the quirkier, behind-the scene moments, both touching and humorous. ? MASTERS' FACTS AND FIGURES: * 43 million Americans watched Tiger Woods win his first of four green jackets. * It's the number one televised golf tournament in the world. * You cannot apply for membership; you must be invited. * The tradition of wearing green jackets began in 1937. * Dwight D. Eisenhower was the only president to have been a club member. ?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140274692X
• ISBN13: 9781402746925
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Masters Anthology--A Good Read

If you like the Masters, this is a book for you. A collection of some of the greatest, most interesting stories written about America's and the world's greatest golf tournament. Sections give you a good feel for the Masters, how it came to be, how's its run, Augusta National, its traditions and lore. Everything you want to know about the Masters--at least everything you should reasonably want to know--is here. Good read anytime, but especially in late March and early April as Masters week approaches. Should be required reading for a first-time Masters goer. Nothing shocking or controversial here, just good Masters related stories from some of America's best know writers and broadcasters. Good stuff, all. One question does remain, however. How could a book that is supposed to contain some of the best Masters stories ever written not have at least one piece by Furman Bisher, legendary scribe of The Atlanta Journal? In spite of that great, great omission, a good book and a good read. A lipped out birdie.