The Green - A Novel

Zusatztext Praise for The Green : "[A] hilarious and loving look at golf generally and the Ryder Cup in particular...Happily for his fans! Caminetti will return in The Foursome ! in which golf meets Deliverance ." -- USA Today "A minor miracle of fiction...Completely convincing! wise! funny! The Green stands on its own not just as outstanding golf fiction but as fiction period." --Steven Pressfield! author of The Legend of Bagger Vance "A rollicking tale full of raucously rococo characters...You think pool sharks are the consummate hustlers? Wait until you meet Eddie Caminetti." -- San Bernardino Sun "If you think it's just about golf! you're missing half the fun. The richly drawn characters populating The Green are stand-ins for all of us! and the lessons to be learned beneath all of the humor and intrigue will stay with you long after the final page." --Stewart Cink! PGA Professional "Laced with colorful locker-room dialogue and golf aphorisms...this romp is par for the course! an insider's down-and-dirty view of golf competition stroke by stroke." -- San Antonio Express-News Informationen zum Autor Troon McAllister lives in Southern California. His handicap has been declared a federal disaster area. Klappentext The Ryder Cup. A biennial tournament considered the premier event in the golfing world, pitting the twelve best players in the United States against the twelve best of Europe in a contest so pressure-filled it can paralyze even the most battle-scarred tour veterans. United States captain Alan Bellamy, with one precious slot unfilled and none of the remaining top tour players willing to sign on against a clearly superior European squad, makes a desperate decision in his attempt to preserve America's golfing honor: he selects as his twelfth man one Eddie Caminetti, a low-life, two-bit hustler from a municipal course in South Florida. The most prestigious tournament in golf will never be the same. As the unforeseen consequences of Caminetti's participation on the Ryder team unfold riotously, Troon McAllister takes us into the minds and souls of elite professional athletes and poses a question as old as golf itself: Why would God create a game even He can't play?I arrived just before five-thirty and saw Eddie waiting for me outside the gate. He was driving a '67 Cadillac Fleetwood, which somehow surprised me. I thought a hustler like him would be driving something nondescript, something that wouldn't call attention to himself. He was standing outside the car with a three-iron hung across his shoulders, one hand on each end as he turned first one way, held it, then turned back and held it on the other side. Once we got inside, he went directly to the range to hit some balls. He must have gotten to the gate by five so he could have his stretching routine done. I got through mine in about fifteen minutes, hit a few and then called out, "You ready?" As Eddie had said, we were both to carry our own bags. It went without saying that I didn't want any caddies to witness me scramble four balls against a nobody. Both of us had brought carry bags, mine a leather-trimmed beauty I got as a gift from a sponsor, his an ultralightweight, apparently homemade job that didn't look as if weighed much more than the air it displaced. The first hole at Seminole is a par-four that plays 475 from the back tees. Eddie took a moment to survey the hole, probably never having seen grass that looked like it had been cut with a nail clipper and a ruler. Seminole was like a postcard come to life, so impossibly manicured it seemed a shame even to set foot on it. I let him have his look so I could have a moment to myself as well. I try never to tee off without first taking a few minutes to appreciate this game I play, and the physical environment in which I pla...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Troon McAllister
• Editore: Main Street Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.04.2000
• EAN: 9780385494601
• ISBN: 978-0-385-49460-1
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 208 mm x 18 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi