Olympic Lyon - Cochrane, Michael
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Before Tiger Woods--and before Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan, and even Bobby Jones, there was the great Canadian George S. Lyon. This first account of Canada's little-known golf legend, Olympic Lyon traces his incredible journey from small-town Ontario to the final match of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. At age thirty-seven, the fire insurance salesman and natural athlete from Toronto picked up a golf club for the first time. Just a few years later, he faced the world's best golfers--men half his age--in a grueling week of competition for the ultimate prize: the first…mehr

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Before Tiger Woods--and before Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan, and even Bobby Jones, there was the great Canadian George S. Lyon. This first account of Canada's little-known golf legend, Olympic Lyon traces his incredible journey from small-town Ontario to the final match of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. At age thirty-seven, the fire insurance salesman and natural athlete from Toronto picked up a golf club for the first time. Just a few years later, he faced the world's best golfers--men half his age--in a grueling week of competition for the ultimate prize: the first Olympic gold medal for golf and a magnificent Championship Trophy. A meticulously researched and wildly entertaining work of historical fiction, Olympic Lyon chronicles Lyon's remarkable career and the sudden rise in popularity of golf in North America. It weaves in such momentous events as the War of 1812, the Louis Riel Rebellion, the St. Louis World's Fair, and the Great Fire of Toronto. Above all else, it restores the memory of Canada's champion and ensures that his name will be forever bound to the great game of golf.
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Michael Cochrane is a Toronto author and lawyer. He has published a number of bestselling books about Canadian law, including Surviving Your Divorce (now in its sixth edition). He is also the author of Olympic Lyon: The Untold Story of the First Gold Medal for Golf, the only book ever written about Canada's forgotten Olympic golf legend, George Lyon.He is frequently featured on television and radio as an expert in a number of areas of Canadian law, including people who fight over lottery winnings. In over forty-four years of practice, he has been an advocate for a more humane system for separating and divorcing families. He was the host of BNN television's national legal affairs program, Strictly Legal, for three seasons. He has lectured in law at Osgoode Hall Law School, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), the University of Ottawa, Common Law, and at Carleton University Department of Law. He is Counsel to the firm of Brauti Thorning LLP in Toronto, Ontario (www.btlegal.ca), and can be reached at www.michaelcochrane.ca and mcochranellb@me.com.