The Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf,

by Herbert Warren Wind and Jack Nicklaus

Book Overview

This intimate autobiography, written when Nicklaus, at age 28, was already the greatest golfer in the world, provides insight into his upbringing and how he pursued his golfing goals. He was already... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671202154
• ISBN13: 9780671202156
• Release Date: June 1969
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Don't miss it.

If you're interested in Jack Nicklaus, and in the way his life and family are interwoven with his golf career, you can't miss this book. One of the great sporting lives in history, a picture of the whole person, an uncommonly intelligent and balanced person who happened to become the greatest player of all time. Even the requisite chapters on instruction (standard among golf biographies) are terrific, reflecting Nicklaus' focus on a few fundamentals, his uncomplicated approach to the game. What you see in this book is an attitude, a mentality, that ought to be a standard for any great athlete, and one that reflects the nature of golf and golf competition at its best--and more than that, an aspiration to greatness that never got out of perspective, never overwhelmed Nicklaus' commitment to his own family and friends. The book was written when his pre-senior-tour career was not even a third finished yet, but it's an early look into the mind of perhaps the most focused, and yet balanced and unassuming, great athlete ever.