Zachary Michael Jack

Let There Be Pebble

A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A golf writer and former newspaper sports editor, Zachary Michael Jack has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including the anthology Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On, available in a Bison Books edition. He teaches literary sportswriting and seminars in sports studies as an associate professor of English at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780803233577
• ISBN-10: 0803233574
• Artikelnr.: 32738672

Autorenporträt

A golf writer and former newspaper sports editor, Zachary Michael Jack has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including the anthology Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On, available in a Bison Books edition. He teaches literary sportswriting and seminars in sports studies as an associate professor of English at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Then God Created the Heavens and Earth, and Carmel-by-the-Sea, and God
Said, "Let There Be Pebble"     000
2. Dark Knights, Great Whites, Dear Young Watsons, Fuzzy Memories, and
Felonious Meetings of Land and Sea      000
3. Bill Murray's Cinderella Story Meets Slu-Dog Millionaire's     000
4. Shivas Irons, the Great White Whale, and Golf in the Kingdom of
Pebble     000
5. Hitting the Books at Pebble's School of Hard Rocks 000
6. How to Lose Your Pebble Virginity in Eighteen So-Not-Easy Holes      000
7. The Ballad of Bobby Clampett and Casey Boyns 000
8. Where the Bodies Are Buried: Touching Up the Mona Lisa, The Myth of the
Fifth, and Other Chilling Tales from Stillwater Cove 000
9. Links, Love, and Lust in the Garden of Eastwood    000
10. Bubba Watson Tweets Cheats; Rickie Fowler Ducks Haircut; Mark Brooks
Smokes Field, Fags; and All the Other News That's Fit to Print from
Pebble's Other Pro-Am   000
11. Mayors, Millionaires, (Life) Mulligans, and (Re)Morse East of
Eastwood    000
12. Swinging in the New Year: High Balls, Catcalls, and Last Calls at Ye
Olde Crosby Clambake      000
13. All Shook Up at the National Pro-Am: Son of Iowa Meets Tiger's "Big
Brother" Meets Asian King of Rock-and-Roll Meets Hungry Godzillas 000
14. We Are the Major Champions, My Friends: Pebble and Spyglass Hill on
AT&T Moving Day   000
15. D. J. Does Valentine's Day: Clint, Climax, and Eye Candy Sunday at the
Clambake 000
16. The Boy Wonder, the Bündchen-Brady, the Bathetic Mex, the Bra-Bearer,
and the Boomer: Celebrity Rounds at Carmel-by-the-Sea-and-Be-Seen     000
17. Hard, Brown, and Out of Control: U.S. Open Performance Anxiety and
Premature Tony Jacklination      000
18. May U.S. Open Winds Be Always at Your Back, May 17-Mile Drive Lay at
Your Feet, May Pebble Rise to Meet You 000
 
Acknowledgments   000