Golfers Gold

by Tony Le and Tony Lema

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094088917X
• ISBN13: 9780940889170
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Classics of Golf/Ailsa Inc.
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

"Great Story About the PGA Tour's Adolescent Days"

I recommend Golfer's Gold to anyone who follows professional golf today. Readers will find that touring pros in the 1950s and 1960s weren't traveling in their private jets and wondering how to spend their millions. Many of them were sharing cars and hotel rooms, lacked sponsors, cared nothing about physical fitness, and had no swing gurus or sports psychologists to rescue them from slumps. Would you believe that tournament winners in those decades took home no more than $2,000? Did you know that not everyone who made the cut got a paycheck at the end of four days? Have you heard how players got on the tour before the advent of Q School? Tony Lema, unknown to many modern fans, was the perfect pro to tell this story. His personality comes across as strongly in print as it did on fairways and greens. You'll follow him as he makes his way onto the tour, sense his anxiety in the U.S. Open, feel the thrill of his runner-up finish at the Masters, and laugh at his candid descriptions of his playing partners, who acted more like fraternity brothers than fierce adversaries. When Lema died in a private plane crash in 1966, the golf world lost a superior player and a genuine character. You'll be grateful he left us this fascinating narrative about his career.The Complete Communicator: Change Your Communication-change Your Life!

Best look at life on the PGA Tour in the early 60's.

Having known Lema and most of the players mentioned in the book duuring that period; the book realy tells it like it was.