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Byron Nelson was one of golf's greatest legends. He was one of the
finest golfers ever to pick up a putter, and the man who had the
most magnificent year any golfer has ever had-1945, when he won an
incredible eighteen PGA tournaments, including eleven in a row, and
finished second in seven others. How I Played the Game is the
beautifully told tale, in his own words, of a man determined to be
the best ever: his hardscrabble rural Texas upbringing and his
near-death experience with typhoid fever; his early years as a
caddie at Fort Worth's Glen Garden Country Club (where as a
15-year-old he beat another young caddie named Ben Hogan in the
Caddie Championship); the lean years as an amateur and as a young
pro during the Depression; and the golden years of the 1940s, when
he invented the modern golf swing and forged the legend of "Lord
Byron." Even after his sudden retirement (the real reason for which
is finally revealed here) his impact on the game never lessened.
Besides his many years as an insightful TV golf commentator, he was
mentor to several future golf champions, Ken Venturi and Tom Watson
among them. And he continued to play top-caliber golf with the
greats of the game, like Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer,
and some who were less than great-President Eisenhower, Bing
Crosby, Bob Hope, and a host of others. Laced throughout with
scores of priceless stories, anecdotes, opinions, and even golf
tips, and with an in-depth, event-by-event recreation of his golden
year, 1945, How I Played the Game is golf writing and remembrance
of the highest order-irresistible reading for every golfer and fan.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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In the world of professional golf, everyone knows "The Little Pro,"
Eddie Merrins, the head professional emeritus at the Bel-Air
Country Club. A living bridge between the Golden Age of the sport
and the greatest champions of today, from Bobby Jones to Tiger
Woods, Merrins is an embodiment of the highest principles of the
game, both on and off the course. In "Playing a Round with the
Little Pro," Merrins shares, with his trademark wit and modesty,
dozens of personal anecdotes about the decades he spent in the
company of Hollywood stars, celebrated athletes and coaches, and
countless lovers of the game seeking his advice and encouragement.
He also offers, for the first time, all his insights into the
mental, physical, technical, and spiritual aspects of the sport.
Celebrating a wonderful life lived in and for the great sport of
golf, this book is destined, like its author, to be a classic of
the game.
The proliferation of international institutions with overlapping
scope and authority over issue areas creates strategic dilemmas for
all states. While African states are often considered marginalised
in world politics and global markets, Michael Byron Nelson shows
how coalitions can form a crucial part of African strategies to
influence international institutions and achieve results. Building
a bottom-up analysis of global governance, through legal analysis,
content analysis, and in-depth interviews, Nelson illuminates
institutional and coalition dynamics through case studies of three
key areas - food safety, intellectual property, and agricultural
trade. He highlights the difficulties encountered by coalitions
attempting to navigate institutional systems, emerging from
institutional thickness (increasing the number of institutions
involved) and integration (increasing the formal linkages between
those institutions). Finally, Nelson shows how increasing the
hierarchy of an institutional system, by creating a focal point on
a single institution, can make coordination easier for coalitions.
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