Full name: The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever

Author: Mark Frost Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Non Fiction, Golf, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781401309619 1401309615

The year: 1956. Four decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery has just made a bet with fellow millionaire George Coleman. Lowery claims that two of his employees, amateur golfers Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, cannot be beaten in a best-ball match. Lowery challenges Coleman to bring any two golfers of his choice to the course at 10 a.m. the next day to settle the issue. Coleman accepts the challenge and shows up with his own power team: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with fourteen major championships between them. In Mark Frost's peerless hands, complete with the recollections of all the participants, the story of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day--legendarily known in golf circles as the greatest private match ever played--comes to life with powerful, emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Similar books: The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost Golf Is a Game of Confidence by Bob Rotella Golf is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella Fairways and Greens by Dan Jenkins The Greatest Player Who Never Lived by J. Michael Veron The Grand Slam by Mark Frost Ben Hogan by James Dodson Missing Links by Rick Reilly American Triumvirate by James Dodson The Kingdom of Shivas Irons by Michael Murphy Shanks for Nothing by Rick Reilly The Green by Troon McAllister Five Lessons by Ben Hogan Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible by Dave Pelz Showtime by Jeff Pearlman Golf My Way by Jack Nicklaus Among the Thugs by Bill Buford The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger