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22 Golf Books & Biographies You Must Read In 2023

22 golf books you must read in 2023.

If you are one of those people that eats, sleeps, and breathes the game of golf, chances are you have read a golf book or two. Ok, who are we kidding, you have a bookcase full of golf books. We have put together a list of twenty golf books that you should check out this year. Let us know which ones you have read and which ones you like best.

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

The Pat Tillman story is not just for golfers. This is a book for all sports fans and fans of real character and determination in a person. Pat Tillman was offered an NFL contract and decided to join the Army and serve his country.

After Pat was tragically killed in Afghanistan, the real story about his life started to surface. Where Men Win Glory is available in many different formats and is a story that will leave you feeling both motivated and inspired. 

 “Riveting. . . . Krakauer’s gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily sets the record straight.” — USA Today

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The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia

You are not a real fan of this sport if the Masters is not one of your favorite tournaments of the year. The Masters is one of the most prestigious events in all of sports. For the golf fans, it is a brief look inside the world of golf most of us will never see. 

What some people do not know is that many years ago, the club and tournament founder Clifford Roberts killed himself on the grounds of Augusta National. He worked tirelessly to make the Masters the best golf tournament in the world. His life and his story have been kept quiet, but this book will reveal everything you wanted to know about this Master’s secret. 

“[Curt Sampson’s] fine new book, The Masters, is the only way we mortals are ever going to gain entrée to the hallowed Augusta National Golf Club.” –The Dallas Morning News

A Father, A Son, The Golf Journey of a Lifetime

This is a classic golf book more than twenty years old now. If you missed this one, this is the year to pick it up and give it a try. The story is about a man and his son who have spent their lives on the golf course.

When the Father realizes he only has two months to live his son decides to take him another a golf journey that they both will never forget. This book is not only about golf, but it’s about life and death and the opportunities we are all given. 

“A beautiful, deeply moving tribute to the love between Father and son and their shared passion for golf. I have never read a more eloquent book about golf as a game where hearts can meet.”

–Michael Murphy, author of Golf in the Kingdom

Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf

If you have not read Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons, this needs to move to the top of your list. If you have read this book, reread it in 2020. This is to some golf enthusiasts the most excellent golf book of all time. Every time we have ever read this book, there is a new piece of information that we absorb.

The information in this book is relevant regardless of your handicap. If you are reluctant to take a golf lesson but know that your game needs a bit of help, try reading this book first.

Tiger Woods

It should come as no surprise that quite a bit has been written about Tiger Woods through the years. This book was written in 2019, and it talks about the rise and the fall of Tiger. In the last few years, the comeback has started, and the story has gotten even more enjoyable.

Whatever your take is on Tiger Woods, it’s hard to argue that he was and is one of the greatest athletes of all time. For the true Tiger fans, there is information to be learned by reading this story. 

“An ambitious 360-degree portrait of golf’s most scrutinized figure . . . The book features fresh reporting on almost every significant element of Woods’ story. . . . It is a book brimming with revealing details.”

—Sam Weinman, Golf Digest

The Last Stand of Payne Stewart: The Year Golf Changed Forever

Payne Stewart’s death is one of the most unfortunate days in golf history. Golf fans will remember where they were the day that his plane went down. Many years later, the shift in the golf world, started by the death of Stewart, is now quite visible. Payne Stewart was a shot-maker. Some said he was a showman but regardless he was very good at moving a golf ball where it needed to go.

The players that have followed and dominated since his death are power golfers. The golf world has changed since Payne left it, and it’s often interesting to think about where he would stand as a modern-day golfer. 

“Payne Stewart was the last of golf’s great swingers. In The Last Stand , Kevin Robbins has captured the man’s game and style and too-short life for eternity.”― Michael Bamberger, author of Men in Green

Remarkable Golf Courses

This is a beautiful book that will fit perfectly on the coffee table of any golf enthusiast. In the last one hundred years, golf has made some tremendous advances in architecture. The golf holes available for play in today’s world are light years different than the ones early in the game.

This book will share quirky holes, historic golf spots, and the most prestigious views. If you have played some of these golf courses, this is a beautiful book to use to reminisce.

The Complete Golf Manual

If this is the year you plan to take this game and tackle it, The Complete Golf Manual is a book you will want by your side. This book addresses and conquers all parts of the game.

If you are a beginner looking to understand the game or a mid handicapper looking to become a single digit, The Complete Golf Manual will have information to help you succeed. This book is easy to follow, laid out well and golfers are already talking about the differences it has made in their game.

Arnold Palmer – A Life Well Played: My Stories

It was a tough day for golf when we lost Arnold Palmer. As the book so aptly states, Arnold not only knew how to play golf but he understood life and people. This commemorative edition has a foreword written by Jack Nicklaus.

If you don’t know Palmer’s story or want to learn more about the man he was, this is a great read. This book is easy to follow and even if you are not a golf enthusiast the story of Arnold Palmer is a good one.

Greatest Game Ever Played: A True Story

 This is not a new book, but one that is worth a read if you missed it. The Greatest Game Ever Played is about the beginning of the game of golf. The two main characters Ouimet and Vardon show the early world of golf, the social inequalities and most importantly what the love for this game will do.

Thanks to this story and these two men golf is a game we are all able to enjoy today. If you love this sport, understanding and embracing a significant piece of its origin is time well spent.

Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

Most golfers are a bit of a head case. Dr. Bob Rotella has built his life on this concept. Golf is Not a Game Of Perfect is the perfect book to read if you are struggling with your mental game. Rotella has a way of making this information understood by golfers of all ages.

He breaks down concepts into very understandable little blurbs that are easily remembered and repeated. If you don’t have the time to read the Rotella book, try the audio version. Sometimes listening to these concepts as you drive or work out can help them sink in even more.

Golf in the Kingdom

Golf In The Kingdom was written over twenty years ago. This is not a true story but instead a mix of fiction, inspiration and even some golf instruction. As far as stories go, this is a great one for golfers. If you can believe a bit in the golf gods this is a story that will appeal to you. Golf In The Kingdom has held steady for many years among the best golf books available.

To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure

If the British Open is your favorite tournament of the year, this book is for you. To The Linksland is a journey back in time through the eyes of a caddy. Written over 25 years ago this book offers an insider’s look at iconic courses like St.Andrews. Stories about the golf courses, the players, and the author are shared excitingly and entertainingly. Indeed a great read if the origins of this game are of interest to you.

I Call Him “Mr. President”: Stories of Golf, Fishing, and Life with My Friend George H. W. Bush

Although at first look, this may not seem like a golf book, it is. The head professional of the golf club, where George Bush spent his summers, is the author of the book. The book talks about how Bush was as a person, a golfer, and a friend. This is an easy and entertaining read. If you have any interest in the life of George W Bush, you will learn some of the insider truths into the man that he is. 

“President Bush would not be what some might expect of someone who is so much in the public eye and has served as the commander-in-chief. He’s a very thoughtful, caring, and considerate person.” —Jack Nicklaus, twenty-time Major Championship winner

How to Become a Complete Golfer

This book is a classic. Similar to Five Lessons and other greats How to Become a Complete Golfer will address all aspects of the game and help you on your way to mastering it. How to Become A Complete Golfer is a perfect book to offer a beginning golfer.

There are so many concepts to the game that are often overlooked for many years. This book helps give the new player confidence and inspiration by explaining the intricacies of the game we all love.

Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game

If Dr. Rotella is not your style, then you should seriously consider reading Zen Golf. This book will, without a doubt help your mental game by implementing easy to understand and powerful concepts. The author, Dr. Joseph Parent has worked with many PGA Tour Professionals to help improve their game. As many will say, you are only as good as the space between your ears. Even if you have a perfect swing, if your mental game is off, your golf game will undoubtedly be off. 

“ Zen Golf is the best book at connecting the mind and golf. Dr. Parent has given me very effective methods for working with thoughts and emotions, and for taking the negatives out of the picture.” ~Vijay Singh, #1 in World Rankings, 2004-5; Masters and PGA Champio n

Bud, Sweat, & Tees: Rich Beem’s Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour, by Alan Shipnuck

Rich Beem’s story is one that everyone can relate to. He struggled in almost everything he did, always trying to make ends meet, until that one special day. Beem is a regular guy, he was not a country club kid. Beem has not spent countless hours conditioning his mind and his body to be prepared for professional golf. He knows how to hit a golf ball, work a golf ball and get the job done.

Watching him win was one of the best days for golf. It brought the game down a few levels and made it appeal to the “average” man. Golf needs another Rich Beem. This is a great read, interesting, funny and inspirational. If you don’t know the story of Rich Beem, you should read this book in 2020.

Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes, by Stephen Goodwin

Bandon Dunes is perhaps one of the most amazing golf courses in America. Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes is an updated version that gives some insight into all the courses at Bandon Dunes. If you enjoy golf course architecture and the birth of a golf mecca, this will be a great read. Not only does this book offer great insight, but it also an inspiring tale of what motivation and a dream will do to a person. 

“A fascinating study of Keiser’s evolution as a golf entrepreneur . . . any golfer interested in how things work will find it a worthy read. This, one suspects, is how the West was truly won.”

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Men in Green

This is not the first time that Michael Bamberger shows up on our top 20 list. He is a renowned golf and sports writer and this book will captivate any lover of the game. Men In Green focuses on the golf stories that grew the game, not just the PGA tour professional and champions but the behind the scenes people as well.

Sometimes those people behind the scenes have an even greater impact but much less recognition. This is a quick read that will help you keep the pages continually turning. If you haven’t read Men In Green, add it to your list today. 

“Maybe the best golf book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal

Golf For Dummies

Golf For Dummies is part of the “For Dummies” series that is available in a wide range of topics. This book is going to appeal more to the higher and mid handicapper than it will to the low handicap player. The basics of golf are covered in a simple to read and understand book.

This book is written by playing professional Gary McCord who has more than enough knowledge to share. This is a bit of a dry read, but if you are struggling with fundamentals, it can be an excellent place to start.

We know we said this was a top twenty list, but there were two more that we just couldn’t leave off. 

If you keep Ben Hogans Five Lessons on your bedside table, you should read Power Golf. Ben Hogan wrote this book, and it can help the game of a forty handicapper or a scratch golfer. Hogan believes in hard work. He thinks that if the time is put in, anybody can become a golfer.

He gives tips on lowering score, creating power, and how to grip the club the right way. Hogan believes strongly in fundamentals, and Power Golf is all built on having the proper fundamentals. There is no debating that Hogan is somebody that should be paid attention to when it comes to the golf swing.

Weight Training for Golf: The Ultimate Guide

Weight training is a relatively new concept in the game of golf. Forty years ago, a player that was physically conditioning himself to play better golf was almost unheard of. In today’s golf world, everything is about power and speed.

To be the strongest and the best, you need strength. Club companies are having to make shafts stronger than ever before because of the clubhead speeds players are now able to create. This book gives excellent tips used by many tour professionals to properly weight train for golf and improve your game from an entirely new angle. 

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It is no secret that golfers love to read about golf. These twenty-two books will keep you quite busy this year if you are trying to increase your golf knowledge. Golf books range from fiction to true inspirational stories to instructional manuals. There is no question that there are plenty of golf books out there that will appeal to your reading style. 

Not all of these golf books were released this year, but that does not mean they should be skipped. People come into the golf game at all different times in their life. Just because a golf book was released in the year 2000 does not mean it is not relevant today. Golf books hold up through the test of time. Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons, Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book, and Power Golf are all examples of books that have been around longer than many golfers have been alive! 

Which book did you like the best? Which one should have made our list? 

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New Tiger biography searches for the secret ingredient in Woods’ competitive life

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What do we talk about when we talk about Tiger Woods? The career-defining triumphs, the charisma, the controversy, the comebacks and—as he plays less yet still serves as a living wayfinder for those attempting to follow his path—the gaudy statistics. What Bob Harig posits in his new Tiger biography, Drive: The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods , out March 16 through St. Martin's Press, is that we should be looking more closely at the invisible hunger that propelled Woods to the ludicrous heights and sustained him through every challenge, every injury, every mistake along the way. It's there in his title—the essential, inimitable drive to greatness.

Harig joins a lengthy list of Tiger's literary chroniclers—one that includes himself, from 2022's Tiger & Phil: Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry . Drive stands out for its format, which can best be described as a series of vignettes from Tiger's career that illustrate his resilience in the face of obstacles, both self-inflicted and otherwise. One chapter may focus on his foundational win at the 1997 Masters , another his limping victory at the 2008 U.S. Open (saddled by a torn ACL and two stress fractures) and another his seven-year made-cut streak, the likes of which we'll never see again.

"To accumulate the résumé he did in 20-plus years of professional golf, there had to be an inner fortitude that pushed him," Harig writes, "an attitude that did not allow him to settle for what likely would have been good enough."

Harig—and Tiger—make a convincing case. This is certainly the most thorough documentation of the physical suffering Woods endured while accumulating his 15 majors and 82 PGA Tour wins, and it effectively demonstrates the sheer force of will required to simply play at many stages of his career. We all know about the duel against Rocco Mediate at Torrey Pines, for instance, but Harig leaves you convinced that nominally lesser feats, such as simply making the cut at both the Masters and PGA Championship in 2022, are equally impressive. Not to mention his unlikely 15th major triumph , 11 years after the one preceding it, in 2019 at Augusta.

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Woods' February 2021 car crash is an obvious focal point of this narrative. While there's no new information on the cause of the accident, Harig narrates the story with a keen attention to detail and plenty of reaction from Woods' peers. This serves as a microcosm for the book at large; in terms of new access to Tiger, Harig surely would have liked more, but his connections with other players past and present, as well as the fact he's probably spoken as much with Woods as any other journalist in the last 25 years, ably make up the gap.

Plus, the premise is ironclad. For mysterious reasons, "hard worker" is never on the tip of the tongue when describing Woods' legacy, and it should be. This aspect is not as glamorous or incendiary as the triumphs and tragedies dotting his personal and professional life, but it's the glue tying the narrative together, and the engine of both his initial rise to success and the inexorable wave of unlikely comebacks that continue to the present.

Woods is approaching his 50th birthday, his body seems to be in a constant state of disrepair, and there's no indication that he'll ever compete at his former level. But when forced to answer everyone's favorite question—"Is Tiger done?"—you have to reckon with the remarkable, cyclic history of suffering and rebound. Harig isn't the type of writer to make rash predictions, but he lays out the case by implication: Count him out at your own peril.

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Phil Mickelson is a major champion. Again. Let that sink in. The 50-year-old Mickelson, ranked 115th in the world, without a top 10 in his last 16 starts and without truly contending in a major championship the past four years did the near-unthinkable on Sunday — he won the 103rd PGA Championship on the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, S.C.

Mickelson, at 50 years, 11 months and 3 days old, becomes the oldest-ever winner of a major championship, surpassing Julius Boros, who was 48 when he won the 1968 PGA Championship.

Mickelson, playing in the final pairing with Brooks Koepka on Sunday, shot a one-over 73 to finish six under overall, besting Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen by two.

It’s the sixth major title of Mickelson’s career — tying him with fellow greats Lee Trevino and Nick Faldo — and his first since the 2013 Open Championship. He also won the PGA in 2005 and has three Masters titles (2004, 2006, 2010). Only 11 players in golf history now have more major wins than Mickelson.

“It’s been an incredible day, and I’ve not let myself kind of think about the results until now, now that it’s over,” Mickelson said. “I’ve tried to stay more in the present and at the shot at hand and not jump ahead and race. I’ve tried to shut my mind to a lot of stuff going around. I wasn’t watching TV. I wasn’t getting on my phone. I was just trying to quiet things down because I’ll get my thoughts racing and I really just tried to stay calm. I believed for a long time that I could play at this level again.”

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To put into context just how unexpected Mickelson’s victory was — besides his 250/1 odds at the beginning of the week — it was only nine days ago when the USGA announced his special exemption into next month’s U.S. Open , since Mickelson hadn’t even qualified. He won’t need that anymore. He’s now exempt for the next five years.

Mickelson entered the round with a one-stroke lead over Koepka — only the fourth player age 50 or older to hold a 54-hole lead or co-lead in a major since 1934 — and was two up on Oosthuizen and three up on Kevin Streelman. Several others were in striking distance early in what turned out to be a blustery final round on the Ocean Course, but the main event was Mickelson vs. Koepka, the former one of the sport’s most beloved figures ever and the latter golf’s most dominant major player of the last four years.

They shocked and thrilled from the start.

Mickelson and Koepka traded leads, or perhaps mistakes, early. Mickelson three-putted for bogey on the 1st hole and Koepka birdied, giving Koepka a one-shot lead, but Koepka drove it in the sand, had to lay up and then two-chipped and two-putted for double bogey on the par-5 2nd. Mickelson countered with a birdie for a three-shot swing and two-stroke lead. Then, playing the drivable par-4 3rd, Mickelson caught a green side wedge fat and had to chip on again, two-putting for bogey. Koepka had a three-footer for what seemed like a routine birdie to tie Mickelson at six under, but he lipped out on the right side and settled for a disappointing par.

“I was not as steady as I had been,” Mickelson said. “I just made a couple uncommitted swings and it led to some inconsistencies in scores because those first four or five holes are not that hard. … And I think Brooks had a couple poor swings, too, and we just weren’t steady. But we seemed to steady it out a little later.”

One of the biggest roars of the day came on the long par-3 5th. Koepka found the green and seemed to have the upper-hand on Mickelson, who was short-sided in a waste bunker. But the short-game wizard chipped in for birdie and sent the gallery into a frenzy . Koepka two-putted for par and saw his deficit slip to two.

"OH MY GRACIOUS!" PHIL JUST DID THAT. pic.twitter.com/wA3hu2cNxG — CBS Sports (@CBSSports) May 23, 2021

Yet that hardly lasted 10 minutes. Mickelson missed the fairway and green on the par-4 6th and made bogey, while Koepka stuck it close and, this time, didn’t miss his short birdie attempt. They were tied at six under, but that didn’t last either. Mickelson birdied the par-5 7th and Koepka bogeyed for another two-shot swing, putting Mickelson ahead by two over Koepka and Oosthuizen.

At that point, through seven holes, Mickelson had played the two par-5s in two under, compared to Koepka’s three over.

Afters pars on 8 and 9, Mickelson picked up two more strokes on 10, when he birdied and Koepka bogeyed, pushing his lead to four. Koepka continued to struggle on par-5s and bogeyed the 11th when he missed a short par putt, but at that point he wasn’t even the top contender anymore. Oosthuizen, in the pairing ahead, made birdie on 12 and got to five under, three behind Mickelson, yet Oosthuizen gave it all right back. His approach into 13 found water right of the green, he made double, and Mickelson’s lead was five with six to play.

But that’s when Mickelson stumbled for the first time on the back nine.

One day after his tee shot on 13 found the water, Mickelson splashed it again — but this time with his approach. He made bogey, then added another bogey when he couldn’t get up and down on the par-3 14th. That left him at six under and three ahead of Oosthuizen, who then birdied the 16th only to have Mickelson match him with a birdie of his own.

Mickelson’s last tough test came on the grueling par-3 17th , but he dodged the water and left himself a chip from above the green. He hacked out from some long grass and two-putted for bogey. He went to the par-4 18th with a two-shot lead over Oosthuizen, who was in the clubhouse at four under, and Koepka, who made birdies on 15 and 16 to get back to four under. But Mickelson found the left rough and then safely hit onto the putting surface, and the spectators filed in behind him as he marched toward the green. Two putts later it was over.

“It’s an incredible experience,” Mickelson said. “I’ve never had something like that [with the gallery following]. It was a little bit unnerving but it was exceptionally awesome, too. So that was kind of a special moment that I’ll be appreciative of the way that people here have supported me and the entire tournament.”

Phil Mickelson — a major champ once again.

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Please excuse me if this has been asked and answered, but what are your favorite golf biographies and autobiographies? We've got some traveling coming up (My son is getting married in July) and I need a good book for the plane. I've read Palmer's, "A Golfer's Life" ( I have a copy that Arnie signed) and Jack Nicklaus' "My Story". I also had a great Sam Snead autobiography that I lent to someone and they never gave it back. I also read Christina Kim's, "Swinging From My Heels", which was great. She's a crackup.

What else have you guys read and would recommend?

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Bud Sweat and Tees (about Rich Beem and his Caddie) may be a little outdated, but very entertaining.   Who's Your Caddie? By Rick Reilly is a entertaining read.  Each chapter he caddies for

The John Daly one is an interesting weave though the train wreck of his life. It's several years old, so doesn't have anything current. I'm sure there are better books out there but this is a quick and easy read. But sooooo poorly written. It's written as though it was put to paper verbatim from his diction. Read it with his voice in mind 🙂

American Triumvirate by James Dodson is good. It's about Nelson, Hogan and Snead. 

Big Miss by Hank Haney is always great. Tiger is/was such a weirdo. 

EDIT: I did not know Christina Kim had a book. Thanks for telling me! I may have to read that. She seems like an oddball. I know she had some real serious personal struggles for awhile there. 

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9 minutes ago, MelloYello said: American Triumvirate by James Dodson is good. It's about Nelson, Hogan and Snead.    Big Miss by Hank Haney is always great. Tiger is/was such a weirdo.    EDIT: I did not know Christina Kim had a book. Thanks for telling me! I may have to read that. She seems like an oddball. I know she had some real serious personal struggles for awhile there.     

The Kim book is great. She's a character. I also follow her on Twitter. She sometimes will take questions on her Twitter feed from people while she travels. 

Big Miss is on my list. I usually don't care for tell-all books and Haney has a serious axe to grind, not that he probably isn't somewhat justified. I'll check out American Triumvirate. That sounds really good. Thanks! Let me know if you read the Kim book.

Tim Scott's bio of Hogan.

American Triumvirate is a must read.

11 minutes ago, Hawkeye77 said: Tim Scott's bio of Hogan.   American Triumvirate is a must read.    

A second nomination for American Triumvirate. Those both sound great. Thanks.

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In the meantime, I am rereading for the umpteenth time, Harvey Penick's books.

I 2nd the John Daly books. 

1)Life in and out of the rough.

2) The biography.

3) Golf my own damn way.

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Wild Thing was by far the best.

Payne Stewarts book was fantastic.

Bud Sweat and Tees (about Rich Beem and his Caddie) may be a little outdated, but very entertaining.

Who's Your Caddie? By Rick Reilly is a entertaining read.  Each chapter he caddies for a different person including high steaks gamblers, celebrities, Deepak Chopra, and Trump I believe, and a few more. Easy read.  Also a few years old

Pretty sure I gave both of them away at this point.  If I can dig them up happy to pay it forward if someone wants them.  

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On 6/2/2021 at 7:00 AM, getair23 said: Bud Sweat and Tees (about Rich Beem and his Caddie) may be a little outdated, but very entertaining.   Who's Your Caddie? By Rick Reilly is a entertaining read.  Each chapter he caddies for a different person including high steaks gamblers, celebrities, Deepak Chopra, and Trump I believe, and a few more. Easy read.  Also a few years old   Pretty sure I gave both of them away at this point.  If I can dig them up happy to pay it forward if someone wants them.    

I'll take Who's your caddy if you have it and happy to pay it forward when i'm done. 

note: i am in canada 

On 6/12/2021 at 12:37 PM, Phireside said: I'll take Who's your caddy if you have it and happy to pay it forward when i'm done.  note: i am in canada 

Found a lot of kids books so far during spring cleaning.  Will send your way as soon as it turns up.  

I’ve read “Hogan” by Curt Sampson. I can’t compare it to any other Hogan biographies. 

Liked the Rich Beem book, but the Payne Stewart book by his wife Tracey is my favorite.

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The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

Featuring tom stoppard, michelle zauner, mike nichols, d. h. lawrence, chimamanda ngozi adichie, and more.

Well, friends, another grim and grueling plague year is drawing to a close, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time to put on our Book Marks stats hats and tabulate the best reviewed books of the past twelve months.

Yes, using reviews drawn from more than 150 publications, over the next two weeks we’ll be revealing the most critically-acclaimed books of 2021, in the categories of (deep breath): Memoir and Biography; Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror; Short Story Collections; Essay Collections; Poetry; Mystery and Crime; Graphic Literature; Literature in Translation; General Fiction; and General Nonfiction.

First up: Memoir and Biography .

Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.”

1. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Knopf)

24 Rave • 6 Positive

“… powerfully maps a complicated mother-daughter relationship cut much too short … Zauner’s food descriptions transport us to the table alongside her … a rare acknowledgement of the ravages of cancer in a culture obsessed with seeing it as an enemy that can be battled with hope and strength …Zauner carries the same clear-eyed frankness to writing about her mother’s death five months after her diagnosis … It is rare to read about a slow death in such detail, an odd gift in that it forces us to sit with mortality rather than turn away from it.”

–Kristen Martin ( NPR )

2. The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen, trans. by Tiina Nullally and Michael Favala Goldman (FSG)

23 Rave • 4 Positive Read an excerpt from The Copenhagen Trilogy here

“… beautiful and fearless … Ditlevsen’s memoirs…form a particular kind of masterpiece, one that helps fill a particular kind of void. The trilogy arrives like something found deep in an ancestor’s bureau drawer, a secret stashed away amid the socks and sachets and photos of dead lovers. The surprise isn’t just its ink-damp immediacy and vitality—the chapters have the quality of just-written diary entries, fluidly translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman—but that it exists at all. It’s a bit like discovering that Lila and Lenú, the fictional heroines of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet, were real … A half-century later, all of it—her extraordinary clarity and imperfect femininity, her unstinting account of the struggle to reconcile art and life—still lands. The construct of memoir (and its stylish young cousin, autofiction) involves the organizing filter of retrospection, lending the impression that life is a continuous narrative reel of action and consequence, of meanings to be universalized … Ditlevsen’s voice, diffident and funny, dead-on about her own mistakes, is a welcome addition to that canon of women who showed us their secret faces so that we might wear our own.”

–Megan O’Grady ( The New York Times Book Review )

3. Real Estate by Deborah Levy (Bloomsbury)

18 Rave • 9 Positive Read an excerpt from Real Estate here

“[A] wonderful new book … Levy, whose prose is at once declarative and concrete and touched with an almost oracular pithiness, has a gift for imbuing ordinary observations with the magic of metaphor … The new volume, which follows the death of one version of the self, describes the uncertain birth of another … She herself is not always a purely likable, or reliable, narrator of her own experience, and her book is the richer for it.”

–Alexandra Schwartz ( The New Yorker )

4. A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Biblioasis)

17 Rave • 4 Positive Read an excerpt from A Ghost in the Throat here

“… ardent, shape-shifting … The book is all undergrowth, exuberant, tangled passage. It recalls Nathalie Léger’s brilliant and original Suite for Barbara Loden : a biography of the actress and director that becomes a tally of the obstacles in writing such a book, and an admission of the near-impossibility of biography itself … The story that uncoils is stranger, more difficult to tell, than those valiant accounts of rescuing a ‘forgotten’ woman writer from history’s erasures or of the challenges faced by the woman artist … What is this ecstasy of self-abnegation, what are its costs? She documents this tendency without shame or fear but with curiosity, even amusement. She will retrain her hungers. ‘I could donate my days to finding hers,’ she tells herself, embarking on Ni Chonaill’s story. ‘I could do that, and I will.’ Or so she says. The real woman Ni Ghriofa summons forth is herself.”

–Parul Sehgal ( The New York Times )

5. Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)

12 Rave • 7 Positive

“… achingly of its time … I really appreciated Adichie’s discomfort with the language of grief … Books often come to you just when you need them, and it is unimaginable to think just how many people have, like the author, lost someone in this singularly strange period of our history. Adichie’s father didn’t die from COVID-19, but that doesn’t make the aftermath of that loss any less relevant … A book on grief is not the kind of book you want to have to give to anyone. But here we are.”

–Allison Arieff ( The San Francisco Chronicle )

1. Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee (Knopf)

13 Rave • 18 Positive • 3 Mixed Read an excerpt from Tom Stoppard: A Life here

“Lee…builds an ever richer, circular understanding of his abiding themes and concerns, of his personal and artistic life, and of his many other passionate engagements … Lee’s biography is unusual in that it was commissioned, and published while its subject is still alive. Lee is a highly acclaimed biographer whose rigor and integrity make her decision to write under such conditions surprising … Lee is frank and thoughtful about the challenges of writing about a living subject. She is aware, as the reader will be, that her interview subjects do not want to speak ill of a friend and colleague who is still among them. In addition to the almost unrelievedly positive portrayal of Stoppard, the seven-hundred-fifty-plus pages of this volume might have been somewhat condensed, were its subject no longer living, thereby rendering the biography easier to wield and to read. In spite of these quibbles, this is an extraordinary record of a vital and evolving artistic life, replete with textured illuminations of the plays and their performances, and shaped by the arc of Stoppard’s exhilarating engagement with the world around him, and of his eventual awakening to his own past.”

–Claire Messud ( Harper’s )

2. Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris (Penguin)

18 Rave • 8 Positive • 2 Mixed

“Mark Harris’s portrait of director Mike Nichols is a pleasure to read and a model biography: appreciative yet critical, unfailingly intelligent and elegantly written. Granted, Harris has a hyper-articulate, self-analytical subject who left a trail of press coverage behind him, but Nichols used his dazzling conversational gifts to obfuscate and beguile as much as to confide … Harris, a savvy journalist and the author of two excellent cultural histories, makes judicious use of abundant sources in Mike Nichols: A Life to craft a shrewd, in-depth reckoning of the elusive man behind the polished facade … Harris gently covers those declining years with respect for the achievements that preceded them. His marvelous book makes palpable in artful detail the extraordinary scope and brilliance of those achievements.”

–Wendy Smith ( The Washington Post )

3. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (W. W. Norton)

12 Rave • 11 Positive • 1 Mixed Read an excerpt from The Doctors Blackwell here

“Janice P. Nimura, in her enthralling new book, The Doctors Blackwell , tells the story of two sisters who became feminist figures almost in spite of themselves … The broad outlines of their lives could have made for a salutary tale about the formidable achievements of pioneering women; instead, Nimura—a gifted storyteller […] recounted another narrative of women’s education and emancipation—offers something stranger and more absorbing … A culture that valorizes heroes insists on consistency, and the Blackwell sisters liked to see themselves as unwavering stewards of lofty ideals. But Nimura, by digging into their deeds and their lives, finds those discrepancies and idiosyncrasies that yield a memorable portrait. The Doctors Blackwell also opens up a sense of possibility—you don’t always have to mean well on all fronts in order to do a lot of good.”

–Jennifer Szalai ( The New York Times )

4. Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey (W. W. Norton)

13 Rave • 13 Positive • 6 Mixed • 4 Pan

“Bailey’s comprehensive life of Philip Roth—to tell it outright—is a narrative masterwork both of wholeness and particularity, of crises wedded to character, of character erupting into insight, insight into desire, and desire into destiny. Roth was never to be a mute inglorious Milton. To imagine him without fame is to strip him bare … The biographer’s unintrusive everyday prose is unseen and unheard; yet under Bailey’s strong light what remains on the page is one writer’s life as it was lived, and—almost—as it was felt.”

–Cynthia Ozick ( The New York Times Book Review )

5. Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

11 Rave • 8 Positive • 5 Mixed

“… the feeling you get reading Frances Wilson’s Burning Man … The flare of a match, a man on fire, raging, crackling, spitting, consuming everything and everyone around him. Wilson too is on form and on fire … I’m not totally convinced the Dante business works. Wilson’s voice is so appealing—confiding, intelligent, easy, amused—I would happily have read a straightforward blaze through the life, cradle to grave, basket to casket … This is a red-hot, propulsive book. The impression it leaves is of Lawrence not so much as a phoenix (his chosen personal emblem) rising from the flames, but of a moth coming too close to a candle and, singed and frantic, flying into and into and into the wick.”

–Laura Freeman ( The Times )

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Brian Cox is punchy, David Harewood candid and Miriam Margolyes raucously indiscreet

In a bonanza year for memoirs, Ruth Coker Burks got us off to a strong start with All the Young Men (Trapeze), a clear-eyed and poignant account of her years spent looking after Aids patients in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1980s. While visiting a friend in hospital, Burks witnessed a group of nurses drawing straws over who should enter a room labelled “Biohazard”, the ward for men with “that gay disease”. And so she took it upon herself to sit with the dying and bury them when their families wouldn’t. Later, as the scale of fear and prejudice became apparent, she helped patients with food, transport, social security and housing, often at enormous personal cost. Her book, written with Kevin Carr O’Leary, finds light in the darkness as it reveals the love and camaraderie of a hidden community fighting for its life.

Sadness and joy also go hand-in-hand in What It Feels Like for a Girl (Penguin), an exuberant account of Paris Lees’s tearaway teenage years in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, where “the streets are paved wi’ dog shit”. Her gender nonconformity is just one aspect of an adolescence that also features bullying, violence, prostitution, robbery and a spell in a young offenders’ institute. Yet despite the many traumas, Lees finds joy and kinship in the underground club scene and a group of drag queens who cocoon her in love and laughter.

Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True (John Murray) traces her path from cherished child of an Oxford GP to Bafta-winning actor to chat-show sofa staple, in a raucously indiscreet memoir replete with fruity tales of sexual experimentation, tricky co-stars and Olympic-level farting. And Bob Mortimer’s winningly heartfelt And Away… (Gallery) reveals the brilliant highs and terrible lows of his childhood as the “irritating runt” of four brothers, his initial career as a solicitor and subsequent reinvention as a celebrated comic alongside his partner in crime, Vic Reeves.

Themes of identity and belonging underpin Beautiful Country (Viking), Qian Julie Wang’s elegantly affecting account of her move from China to New York where she lived undocumented and under threat of deportation, and Nadia Owusu’s powerful Aftershocks (Sceptre), in which the author recalls a peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a volatile Armenian-American mother and a Ghanaian father, a United Nations official who died when she was 13. Both books tell remarkable stories of displacement, heartache and resilience.

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows (Bodley Head) is another tale of extraordinary resilience, as the artist Ai Weiwei vividly reflects on his own life and that of his father, who was a poet. Both men fell foul of the Chinese authorities: Ai’s father, Ai Qing, was exiled to a place nicknamed “Little Siberia”, where he lived with his young son in a dug-out pit with a roof made from mud and branches, while Ai himself was imprisoned in 2011 for 11 weeks on spurious tax charges. Lea Ypi’s Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Penguin) is a beautifully written account of life under a crumbling Stalinist system in Albania and the shock and chaos of what came next. In telling her story and examining the political systems in which she was raised, the author and LSE professor asks tough questions about the nature of freedom.

In Maybe I Don’t Belong Here (Bluebird), the actor David Harewood lays bare his struggles with racial injustice and mental illness, and shows how these things are connected. Harewood’s childhood was punctuated by racist abuse; later, as he tried to get his career off the ground, he was bullied by colleagues and critics. At 23, he had a psychotic breakdown during which it took six police officers to restrain him, and was dispatched to a psychiatric ward where, he learns from his hospital records, he was described as a “large black man” and administered drugs at four times the recommended dose. His recollections of his unravelling, treatment and recovery are acutely drawn.

Huma Abedin’s electrifying memoir Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds (Simon & Schuster) grapples with her multiple identities as a woman with Indian parents, who was born in Michigan and raised in Saudi Arabia. It is also a brave and unflinching account of her job as aide to Hillary Clinton and her years as the wife of Anthony Weiner , the congressman at the centre of a sexting scandal that landed him in prison, prompted an investigation by child services and ultimately derailed Clinton’s presidential campaign. Of the night Abedin learned her work emails had been discovered on her husband’s laptop, which would lead to the FBI reopening its investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information, she recalls: “I wrote one line in my notebook. ‘I do not know how I am going to survive this. Help me God.’”

The actor Brian Cox lost his father to pancreatic cancer when he was eight years old, his mother battled with mental illness and his childhood was one of almost Dickensian poverty. But you won’t find self-pity in his meandering but amusingly irreverent memoir, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat (Quercus). Instead, we get a whistlestop tour of his working life, during which he takes entertaining pot-shots at Johnny Depp (“overrated”), Steven Seagal (“ludicrous”) and Edward Norton (“a pain in the arse”).

Finally, two terrific biographies. Frances Wilson’s smart and scholarly Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence (Bloomsbury) paints a vivid picture of a brilliant writer who was “censored and worshipped” in his lifetime, and remained furious at the world and at those not sufficiently cognisant of his genius.

And Paula Byrne’s The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (William Collins), about the British postwar novelist whom Philip Larkin compared to Jane Austen, is a touching and revealing portrait of a flawed romantic and a free spirit.

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2024 US Open: TV broadcast and streaming schedule for the 124th US Open at Pinehurst

The 124th U.S. Open is upon us, and it's set to take place at the iconic No. 2 course at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, a venue steeped in golfing history. The tournament will kick off on Thursday, June 13 and wrap up on Sunday, June 16.

Prepare for a thrilling showdown as 156 top-notch golfers, including the current World No. 1 and Masters Champion Scottie Scheffler , vie for the coveted title. Scheffler, the current favorite, is sure to set the course ablaze during the tournament's week.

Wyndham Clark , the defending champion, won the 2023 U.S. Open title with a score of 10-under, securing his first major win and aiming for a second major triumph.

Adding to the excitement, the legendary Tiger Woods , a fifteen-time major champion, will grace the field after receiving an exclusive invitation from the USGA. His presence is a testament to the prestige of the U.S. Open.

2024 U.S. Open broadcast schedule: TV and streaming

All information and times provided by the U.S. Open . Broadcast for the tournament will be across NBC, USA Network and the Golf Channel. Live streaming options for the tournament will be available on the USGA App, usopen.com and Peacock.

Thursday, June 13: First Round

• First Round of 124th U.S. Open on the USA Network from 6:30 a.m. ET - 5 p.m. ET
• First Round of 124th U.S. Open on Peacock from 5 p.m. ET - 8 p.m. ET
• Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open on the Golf Channel from 8 p.m. ET - 10 p.m. ET 
• Featured Groups available on usopen.com, USGA App, Peacock
• U.S. Open All Access on Peacock from 7:30 a.m. ET- 5 p.m. ET

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Friday, June 14: Second Round

• Second Round of 124th U.S. Open on Peacock from 6:30 a.m. ET - 1 p.m. ET
• Second Round of 124th U.S. Open on NBC from 1 p.m. ET - 7 p.m. ET
• Second Round of 124th U.S. Open on Peacock from 7 p.m. ET - 8 p.m. ET 
• Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open on the Golf Channel from 7 p.m. ET - 9 p.m. ET

How to watch: Watch the US Open with a Peacock subscription

Saturday, June 15: Third Round

• Third Round of 124th U.S. Open on USA Network from 10 a.m. ET - 12 p.m. ET
• Third Round of 124th U.S. Open on NBC from 12 p.m. ET - 8 p.m. ET
• Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open on the Golf Channel from 8 p.m. ET- 10 p.m. ET
•  Featured Groups available on usopen.com, USGA App, Peacock
•  U.S. Open All Access on Peacock from 10 a.m. ET - 12 p.m. ET

Sunday, June 16: Final Round

• Final Round of 124th U.S. Open on USA Network from 9 a.m. ET - 12 p.m. ET
• Final Round of 124th U.S. Open on NBC from 12 p.m. ET - 7 p.m. ET
•  U.S. Open All Access on Peacock from 9 a.m. ET - 12 p.m. ET

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2024 U.S. Open TV schedule, coverage, where to watch online, live stream, channel, golf tee times

How to watch every memorable moment of the 2024 u.s. open on tv or streaming live online.

The third major championship of the 2024 golf season has reached the weekend with a pair of Americans having already claimed the first two majors of the year. The USGA has loaded up its premier event with nearly all the best golfers in the world as 2024 U.S. Open contenders are taking on Pinehurst No. 2 for the first time in a decade.

Scottie Scheffler entered yet another major as the favorite, this time coming off a newsworthy effort at the PGA Championship marred by an arrest for which all charges have been dropped. Scheffler, who has already won the Masters and Players Championship this season, may well have taken the PGA if not for those unfortunate events. Instead of contending at Pinehurst, though, he barely made the cut and began reassessing his game  after 36 holes of the U.S. Open.

Rory McIlroy started Friday's second round as one of those two leaders out in front after shooting a Pinehurst-low 65 at a U.S. Open. However, he sits two shots behind 36-hole solo leader Ludvig Åberg, a 24-year-old Swede competing in the first major championship season of his career. Åberg is continuing an immense run that actually began at the last Ryder Cup; he shot a 69 on Friday and has played some of the best golf of anyone on the PGA Tour through the year's first three majors, finishing in solo 2nd behind Scheffler at the Masters this year.

While attending the U.S. Open can be a ton of fun, simply being able to watch golf on the game's grandest stage is an incredible treat each year. We here at CBS Sports are thrilled to bring you wall-to-wall coverage of the U.S. Open all week long.

Enough talking about it. Here's how you can watch as much U.S. Open as possible during the weekend. Check out a full slate of Round 3 tee times for the U.S. Open so you can keep track of your favorite golfers throughout Moving Day, and don't miss our U.S. Open leaderboard and live coverage throughout the third round at Pinehurst.

All times Eastern

2024 U.S. Open TV schedule, where to watch

Round 3 -- saturday, june 15.

Round 3 start time:  8:44 a.m. [ Tee times ]

Morning TV coverage:  10 a.m. to noon on USA Network,  fubo  (Try for free) Afternoon TV coverage:  Noon to 8 p.m. on NBC,  fubo  (Try for free)

Featured Groups live stream:  8:53 a.m. on USOpen.com , U.S. Open mobile app

• 8:53 a.m. -- Brooks Koepka, Francesco Molinari
• 9:59 a.m. -- Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young
• 10:37 a.m. -- Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley
• 1:49 a.m. -- Russell Henley, Sergio Garcia
• 2:38 p.m. -- Akshay Bhatia, Xander Schauffele
• 2:49 p.m. -- Tyrrell Hatton, Tom Kim

Round 4 -- Sunday, June 16

Round 4 start time:  9 a.m.

Morning TV coverage:  9 a.m. to noon on USA Network,  fubo  (Try for free) Afternoon TV coverage:  Noon to 7 p.m. on NBC,  fubo  (Try for free)

Featured Groups live stream:  TBA on  USOpen.com , U.S. Open mobile app

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