John Sabino

Golf's Iron Horse (eBook, ePUB)

The Astonishing, Record-Breaking Life of Ralph Kennedy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

So many works of golfing history focus on the greats: the best players, the most prestigious championships, the hardest courses, and the like. But most avid golfers are average players, relishing in the joy of the sport itself. In Golf's Iron Horse, celebrated golf writer John Sabino chronicles the previously untold story of Ralph Kennedy, a golf amateur whose love of the game set him on par to play more courses than anyone before.

A founding member of Mamaroneck, New York's prestigious Winged Foot Golf Club, Kennedy had long been an avid golfer when he met Charles Leonard Fletcher in 1919. When the Englishman told Kennedy that he had played more than 240 courses in his lifetime, Kennedy took it as a challenge and became determined to play more.

In a feat that caused the New York Sun to declare him "golf's Lou Gehrig in 1935, Kennedy succeeded in beating Fletcher's record, and then some. He played golf on more than 3,165 different courses in all forty-eight states, nine Canadian provinces, and more than a dozen different countries during his forty-three year love affair with the game. In addition to the 3,165 unique courses he played, the unrelenting Ralph also played golf a total of 8,500 times over his lifetime, the equivalent of teeing it up every day for twenty-three straight years. Lou Gehrig's seventeen years in professional baseball pales in comparison.

This intriguing story includes details of the special conditions under which he was able to play the Augusta National Golf Club and the unique circumstances of his visits to Pebble Beach and the Old Course at St. Andrews. Perfect for golf aficionados, Golf's Iron Horse will inspire every reader to tee off at a new course.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781510713482
• Artikelnr.: 54892158

Autorenporträt

John Sabino is among a small group of golfers who have achieved the feat of playing the top one hundred ranked golf courses in the world. John chronicled his journey in his popular blog "Playing the Top 100 Golf Courses in The World" and in his book How to Play the World's Most Exclusive Golf Clubs. In addition, he has been featured in Links Magazine, Australian Golf Digest, the Star Ledger, the Wall Street Journal, and Golf Digest Index. An avid golfer and student of golf history, John brings an unparalleled enthusiasm and an insider's insight to the task. John lives in the golf-rich state of New Jersey.