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The Ball in the Air - A Golfing Adventure (Hardcover)
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The Ball in the Air - A Golfing Adventure (Hardcover)
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From Michael Bamberger, the New York Times bestselling
author of Men in Green and our most celebrated
contemporary golf writer, The Ball in the Air is a love
letter to the amateur game, doing for golf what Friday Night
Lights did for football. Over Michael Bamberger’s storied
writing career, he has written five golf books and hundreds
of Sports Illustrated stories about professional golf
and those who play it. That is, the .001 percent. Now “the poet
laureate of golf” (GOLF Magazine) trains his eye on the rest of
us. In Bamberger’s most intimate book yet, he takes the lid off a
game that is both quasi-religious and a nonstop party.
In this freewheeling and timeless book, an age-old question is
posed early and answered over its pages: Why does the game cast
such a spell on us? The Ball in the Air is reported with deep
curiosity and written with you-are-there intimacy. It captures golf
as a way of life. You get to know a collection of golfers you
won’t find elsewhere: a young woman who was raised in a
maintenance shed in South Asia and now plays on a college team in
Southern California; a middle-aged globe-trotting caddie who is to
golf what William Finnegan is to surfing; a renowned senior amateur
from Chicago, a finalist in a long-ago British Amateur in St.
Andrews, who is giving competitive golf one last go. You join golf
societies with members who have fallen into various golfing rabbit
holes. (Golden Age architects!) You visit some exalted private
courses, and a bunch of good-time-Charlie public ones, across the
United States and in the United Kingdom. You hang with a legendary
pro whose childlike wonder for the game makes him the ultimate
amateur. The Ball in the Air is a fast-moving and
spirited tribute to people who can do the whole eat-pray-love thing
in one green place (and adjacent clubhouse), lucky souls who, as
Bamberger writes, “can marvel at a white ball in a high sky and
get lost.”
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