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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Golf
The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of
Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer 'The story of its
greatest anti-hero is just what the game needs' Spectator When
46-year-old crane driver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way into the
Open - having never before played a round of golf in his life - he
ran up a record-worst score of 121. The sport's ruling classes
banned him for life. Maurice didn't take it lying down. In a
hilarious game of cat-and-mouse with The Man, he entered
tournaments again - and again, and again - using increasingly
ludicrous pseudonyms such as Gene Pacecki, Arnold Palmtree and
Count Manfred von Hoffmanstel (more often than not disguised by a
fake moustache). In doing so, he sent the authorities into
apoplexy, and won the hearts of fans from Muirfield to Michigan,
becoming arguably the most popular - and certainly the bravest -
sporting underdog the world has ever known 'Hilarious' Esquire
This book helps inject the Miami Times into the historical
narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida by highlighting
its role in Rice v Arnold, a 1949 lawsuit filed by black
recreational golfers in Miami to oppose segregation on the city's
public golf course. Founded in 1923 by Bahamian-born H.E.S. Reeves
who ran the newspaper with his son Garth C. Reeves Sr., the
newspaper financially and editorially supported efforts to
desegregate Miami schools, beaches, residential communities, public
transportation systems and sports complexes. Its support of the
Rice v Arnold legal challenge is but one example that demonstrates
how the newspaper, as a conduit of social change, worked with other
Miami community leaders to improve conditions for the city's black
population.
Arnold Palmer taught world-class pro golf instructor Brad Brewer
how to play golf. But that was just the beginning. For more than 30
years, Palmer taught Brad how to live. As a businessman, a father,
a celebrity, a philanthropist, and a friend, Palmer showed those
around him that true success has nothing to do with the final
score-and everything to do with how you play the game. In Arnold
Palmer's Success Lessons, Brad shares the life-changing truths he
learned from the King of Golf throughout three decades of knowing
Palmer as a business partner, employer, and mentor. In short but
powerful chapters, Brad passes on Palmer's secrets such as: Why you
always need to play for the love of the game What your starting
point tells you about your destination How to capitalize on past
success The attitude of a true champion Why golf is like all the
best things in life-it's more complicated than it looks Taking us
from Palmer's childhood to his last years back in his own hometown,
Brad introduces us to the Arnold Palmer behind the trophies, the
celebrity, and the fame. This was the man who changed lives simply
by living well, a man loved and respected not only for what he did
but for who he was.
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