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Title: Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black by John Feinstein ISBN: 0-316-17003-8 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (27 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Below Par
Comment: I like Feinstein's work but this book is a bore. The first 100 pages are mini-biographies of USGA staff. Someone out there must find interesting which college basketball team is the favorite of the USGA publicity director, but I am at loss to understand whom.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not quite as advertized
Comment: Those who buy this book thinking they are going to get the inside story of the US Open golf tournament held at Bethpage Black in 2002 are going to be disappointed. The tournament doesn't even start until page 262.
What this book is about is how the United States Golf Association decided to bring it's prestigious Open Championship to a municipal golf course on Long Island, rather than the famed country clubs which have hosted this event since it's inception and what goes in to putting on such an event. The title says" Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black." What you really get is inside the workings of the USGA, what goes on behind the scenes, how decisions are made (or not),how catastrophes were avoided (or not)and in the end you may have learned more about what was involved in bringing this tournament to this course than you really wanted to know.
To those of us who follow golf closely and have attended a US Open, this is a very interesting read. Feinstein researches his subject exhastively and tells the story in an interesting manner, but at the end of the book I don't believe the reader has gotten a full measure of what has been promised. So, be aware of what the book is about and what it is not about, and if it is your cup of tea, read on.
Rating: 1
Summary: Feinstein sliced this book OB
Comment: I am really ticked off and feel that somebody at Little, Brown publishing co. owes me $26. This is the worst book about golf I've ever read, and I've read a lot.
Feinstein is generally a fantastic writer and in the past I've really enjoyed his stuff . . . so imagine how disappointing this was when I found out that it not only was NOT his usual great work . . . and that in reality, this one is really a 5-star stinker.
Here's the problem: If you look at the book's dust cover, there is a guy teeing-off and gallery on both sides looking on. Look at the back of the jacket and there's Tiger and others. Read the title, "Open -- Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black", and adding all that up you'd think that this would be a book about the open, inside stories about the golfers and personal looks at them and their lives and their games. You know, the kind of stuff that made Feinstein's other books so much fun to read.
Inside the jacket the blurb talks about Tiger, Sergio, Nick, Phil, etc., so you figger you'll be reading about them. Uh-uh.
Imagine, then, how the reader feels when this book slogs on and on about Barney McFeeley and Harry O'Howsmigolfin' and Freddie Fatsohuffinpuffin and whoever these old geezers at the USGA are . . . stories not about golf, but about executives and bureaucrats having to do work (! wow, imagine that!) to set up an open at Bethpage Black (and the reverence for this golf course really gets on one's nerves, I mean, come on already). Bo-ring, boring, boring! But I suppose this sold well on Long Island and in the New York area. . .
I don't blame Feinstein, the author. He wrote a book about a boring topic and was probably misled by his publisher into thinking this would be a big hit. And his editor, well, what could he do with a can of crud like this. But Little, Brown, knowing they had a bomb on their hands, did the unethical thing, and that is to market this as something it's not.
Little, Brown if you are out there, please email me. You owe me a refund.
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