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Play Golf Forever is a practical guide to slowing down the gradual
decline in your body as you get older. Suzanne Clark has 30 years'
experience as a physiotherapist and is a keen, all-round sports
player. She explains in layman's terms how your body works when you
play golf and what you can do to make it healthier and fitter to
enable you to play for longer. She describes how to strengthen key
muscles as part of the everyday tasks you already do, how to
prevent injury and what to do if you are injured. This book is for
all the over 50s who want to keep playing golf.
Golfer's all over the globe have adopted phrases heard from
enthusiastic patrons in faraway places and developed modern dialect
adding to their own comments and cliches that are, well quite
frankly absurd to non-golfer's. This book takes a tongue in cheek
look at 'The Crazy Things That Golfer's Say' and what a playing
partner could reply with if the statement is taken literally, with
a little bit of psychobabble and definitions to what the comment
really means. It is a funny look at 'Golf Speak' exposing the
ancient and modern language, while reinforcing the need to maintain
etiquette and decorum. A book packed with phrases said every day on
golf courses all over the world after tee shots, shots from the
fairway, recovery shots and on or around the green. A highly
entertaining book filled with excuses and commentary said by
golfers to explain why their golf shot went wrong.
This is a golf story about bullies. This picture book is part of
the bully series of "Adventures in SportsLand" that focuses on
bullies. This series consists of ten (10) children picture books
(Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, Golf, Tennis and
Volleyball) - two in Spanish - that are fun, attractive and
educational. These non-violent books subliminally teach children
how to better understand the handling of bullies. This bully series
is aimed toward children who are just beginning to interact with
sport teams, coaches, fans and players. These stories will serve as
an educational tool as the characters play out real life situations
and learn how to cope and handle them. Also it serves as an
excellent means for an adult to start a conversation with a child
about bullies, sportsmanship, family, moral values, good behavior,
playing fair and most important - just having fun. Each book
contains 32 illustrated pages that feature LuckySports characters
(some helpful, some not) that are given a second chance in life as
sport cartoon characters in a magical world of SportsLand, where
sport is KING and playing is FUN. Children will experience all the
ACTION, FUN and ADVENTURE of SportsLand. What is Adventures in
SportsLand? Adventures in SportsLand's Bully Series is a collection
of sports stories that teach children - (who are just beginning to
interact with sports teams, coaches, fans and players) - about
sports, along with good behavior, confidence building, playing fair
and most important... just having fun. These books will help
children (adults too ) to better understand how to handle bullies.
Bullies in school, sports and playground are timely issues. Bully
influence can impact and shape young children's future views of
life.
D.J. Gregory fell in love with golf at the age of twelve, when he
first began watching the game on television and attending local
tournaments with his dad. But unlike many other golf fans, D.J.
never dreamed of playing professionally. He never thought of
becoming a ranked amateur, or even a caddie.
When D.J. was an infant, doctors told his parents that he would
probably spend his life in a wheelchair because of his cerebral
palsy. But that didn't keep D.J. from trying to beat the odds,
enduring five surgeries, learning to walk with a cane, and
eventually earning college degrees in sports management. Golf had
always remained D.J.'s passion, and in 2008, he decided to make a
dream come true -- to travel the country and walk with a different
player at each event on the PGA Tour.
From the first event on the island of Maui, through the
season-ending tournament at Disney World, D.J. lived out a sports
fantasy unlike any other. Every week of the tour, he traveled to a
tournament where he walked every round with the greatest golfers in
the world: Boo Weekley, an affable country boy who went on to be
the hero of the Ryder Cup...Davis Love III, whose twentieth career
win earned him a lifetime card in the PGA...and Kenny Perry, the
forty-eight-year-old veteran who, like the last days of a bright
nova, made his final professional moments in 2008 the hottest and
most brilliant of his career.
For D.J., it was the most exciting year of his life, a
physically challenging but emotionally rewarding adventure filled
with wonderful people, unforgettable moments, and cherished
memories. "Walking with Friends" is a book for all the fans who
live for the love of the game, for the dreamers and doers who make
things happen, and for the friends who help us walk through the
journey of life.
In the summer of 1955, early in the modern civil rights era, six
African American golfers in Beaumont, Texas, began attacking the
Jim Crow caste system when they filed a federal lawsuit for the
right to play the municipal golf course. The golfers and their
African American lawyers went to federal court and asked a
conservative white Republican judge to render a decision that would
not only integrate the local golf course but also set precedent for
desegregation of other public facilities, as well.In Fair Ways,
Beaumont native Robert J. Robertson chronicles three parallel
stories that converged in this important case. He tells the story
of the plaintiffs-avid golfers who had learned the game while
working as caddies and waiters-and their young lawyers, recent
graduates from Howard University law school, and the Republican
judge just appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower. Would
the judge apply the new principles of Brown v. Board of Education
to the questions before him? Would he use federal judicial power to
override state laws and outlaw local customs?Fair Ways gives an
uncommonly vivid picture of racial segregation and the forces that
brought about its end. Using public case papers, public records,
newspapers, and oral histories, Robertson has recreated the scene
in Beaumont on the eve of desegregation, describing in detail the
parallel white and black communities that characterized the Jim
Crow caste system. Through this account, the forces at work in the
South-education, military experience, rising expectations, the
NAACP, and the rule of law-are personified dramatically by the
golfers, the lawyers, and the judge.
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