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Title: In Search of Tiger: A Journey Through Golf With Tiger Woods by Tom Callahan, Buck Schirner ISBN: 1-59086-653-3 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not quite
Comment: This book is a compelling read for someone with a starting knowledge of and interest in Tiger Woods, but it doesn't quite make you feel like you've found Tiger. The book seems to be too choppy, more a series of isolated chapters thrown in that dont seem to connect. And there are too many questions that you are left with after reading it. If you're going to brag that you covered Tiger at all his first 8 majors, why have chapters only on the 3 in 2000? And if you're going to focus on those, why soak them with background info and then glaze over the tremendous performances? Callahan's description of Tiger during the 2000 PGA is particularly weak; why he decides to condense that great final round with May and the great back nine and the putts on 18 and 16 the second time around into about a page and a half befuddled me. And most of all, why devote so much of the book to learning about golfers other than Tiger? It's true that if you were to write the definitive, thoroughly detailed Tiger book, you could not ignore Lefty, Sergio, Ernie, etc. But when the chapters on the other golfers seem to take up half of this relatively short book, you've gone too far. It's true that this book is well written and will provide you with some nice tidbits about Tiger (such as the fact that his mother was the one to get him to wear red on Sundays), but you will likely leave the book hoping for more detail, more coherence, and more depth.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tom Callahan Pens the Definitive Tiger Bio
Comment: There is simply no sportswriter on earth with as much meticulous insight into the minds of both the golfing legends of old and the stars of today as Tom Callahan. Admittedly, my expectations were lofty going in here, esp. after reading the astounding accolades bestowed upon Callahan on the book jacket alone -- from the likes of Costas, Kornheiser, Jenkins, Reilly, Nicklaus, and others. Thankfully, for once, they were all right. This book is indeed the whole package on Tiger, presented (ingeniously) not only via Tiger's own eyes, but those of his peers and predecessors. The golf history in the book is cleverly detailed yet pleasurably digestible. The first hand interviews with Tiger and his family are unprecedented. And the "Journey", for anyone REALLY interested in Tiger, is remarkably satisfying. Kudos to Tom Callahan for giving the sports world the preeminent Tiger bio.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic! A golf writing double-eagle**
Comment: Let me say this up front --- Tom Callahan is an immensely gifted writer. He is able through words to take the trite/boring and turn it into the phenomenally sublime. With an encyclopedic knowlege of all things golf along with up-close-and-personal profiles of current & past players, coaches, and associated fathers, he paints through annecdotes a circular, but no less complete picture of Tiger and his place in the great game of golf. This book is NOT per-se, a purely biographical sketch of Tiger Woods, but more of a wholistic and entertaining presentation of the past, present and future of the game and Tiger's place in it. If you love golf, watch golf, and love to read, you'll get more "bang for your buck" here than any other golf book I know of! And I've read quite a few....
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Title: How I Play Golf by Tiger Woods ISBN: 0446529311 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Tiger Woods: A Biography by Bill Gutman ISBN: 0613291034 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.80 |
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Title: The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness by David Owen ISBN: 0743222342 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 18 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black by John Feinstein ISBN: 0316170038 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Think Like Tiger: An Analysis of Tiger Woods's Mental Game by John Andrisani ISBN: 0399148434 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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