Tour '72: The Story of One Great Season

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The year 1972 was an incredible one for golf. The games traditional stateliness gave way to a fiercer and more exciting dynamic as Trevino, Palmer, Nicklaus, and Player dominated the course. Their intense competitiveness and unbelievable prowess paved the way for the likes of Tiger and Sergio, and shaped the game we know today. Armed with a reporters perspective and a passionate golfers love of the game, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael DAntonio offers a behind-the-scenes portrait of this extraordinary ...
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The year 1972 was an incredible one for golf. The games traditional stateliness gave way to a fiercer and more exciting dynamic as Trevino, Palmer, Nicklaus, and Player dominated the course. Their intense competitiveness and unbelievable prowess paved the way for the likes of Tiger and Sergio, and shaped the game we know today. Armed with a reporters perspective and a passionate golfers love of the game, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael DAntonio offers a behind-the-scenes portrait of this extraordinary time. He details the most exciting British Open ever played; the best single shot ever made at the PGA Championship; and the division between the older champions and new prodigies. He reveals Lee Trevinos near nervous breakdown and explores Jack Nicklauss evolution from arrogant youth to best golfer of his generation. At no other time would so many great players compete together at the height of their powers. Michael DAntonio captures this pivotal year in all its glory in a book every golf fan will treasure.
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Before there was a Tiger, golfers cowered before a Golden Bear. Jack Nicklaus took the PGA Tour by storm in 1972, threatening to win all four majors. Standing in his way were rivals of legendary gamesmanship and talent. In Tour '72 Michael D'Antonio, author of Tin Cup Dreams, revisits one of golf's most legendary seasons.

Chasing Nicklaus down the fairway were Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player. Trevino, the 1971 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, was a working-class hero whose hardscrabble background and free-spirited demeanor contrasted to Nicklaus's privileged upbringing and competitive gravity. Palmer, a top rival to Nicklaus in the '60s and a sentimental favorite, was still capable of unleashing a vigorous charge. Player, the controversial South African with Hollywood looks and deadly shot-making ability, was a perennial dark horse.

Tour '72 evokes a time when golf, of all sports, deflected public attention from a tumultuous worldwide political environment. As Nicklaus notches up the victories, meticulously plotting his Grand Slam, Trevino, et al. become all the more desperate to stop him. Fully evoked in Tour '72 is the unparalleled drama that occurs when titans clash on the links. (Brenn Jones)

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Not only does D'Antonio re-create the excitement of those great tournaments, he puts the results into context with plenty of backstory.
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Featuring crowded leader boards, surprise turnarounds and sudden-death playoffs in five of its first seven tournaments, the 1972 PGA Tour was earmarked by a fierce rivalry among the players not witnessed since. Focusing on Nicklaus, Palmer, Player and Trevino, D'Antonio (Tin Cup Dreams) traces the character of the season and its hopefuls as they vie with one another for the greatest crown in the sport the winning of the four major tournaments of the PGA Tour. As D'Antonio moves swiftly among the games at Augusta National, the heartbreaking Muirfield in Scotland for the British Open and Michigan's Oakland Hills, he captures the enormous drives, the startling putts and every fade, bogey, slice and dispiriting hack shot from the rough. The author's sense of drama and storytelling raises the stakes at every turn, making this tale an unexpectedly engaging read. D'Antonio also performs a deft balancing act, situating a stodgy, stuffy sport amid the violent cultural upheavals of the 1970s. The results are not always dynamic, yet his narrative is a remarkably fresh story and will appeal across the board to the millions of golfers. (May) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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In this review of the dramatic 1972 pro golf tour, golfer and writer D'Antonio (Tin Cup Dreams) tells the interlocking stories of the four pillars of the game at that time: Arnold Palmer, a proud but fading champion trying to hold on; his rival Jack Nicklaus, the best of his generation striving for a grand slam tournament championship; Lee Trevino, his eyes on the prize money and feeling the pressure to perform; and Gary Player, a white South African increasingly being drawn into the cause of racial equality. D'Antonio's ultimate point that the competition among these four champions made them all better is a good one. The author feels that great competition is what made that year and that era so compelling in golf, and that today's tour, which is so dominated by Tiger Woods without any strong competitors, has less to offer the fan. A very well written backstage view of the pro golf tour in a memorable time; recommended for all golf collections. John Maxymuk, Rutgers Univ. Lib., Camden, NJ Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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From Pulitzer Prize–winner D'Antonio (Tin Cup Dreams, 2000, etc.), an enjoyable memory ride through the golf calendar of 1972, when Jack Nicklaus made a stab at the Slam. It was a banner year in golf for a number of reasons, but the most important was that four of the game's greatest players—Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Lee Trevino—were in contention. This, D'Antonio says, is what makes golf, or any sport for that matter, exciting: competition at a lofty level. Class warfare was afoot too, appropriately enough in a year that saw the entire US undergoing a sea change; both Palmer and Trevino came from working-class backgrounds, unusual in golf at that time. D'Antonio tenders jaunty background copy on each of the principals: fast-lane, handsome Palmer, Mr. Charisma; Nicklaus, pudgy and squeaky but relentless; the suave Player, who took a hit for his South African citizenship even though he was anti-apartheid; and Trevino, the comedian, off a brilliant 1971 season and a bracing ethnic addition to the WASP Tour. Nicklaus captured the Master's and the US Open and appeared to be on the way to a Slam, but after he lost the British Open to Trevino, the wind was knocked out of the season, though Player's triumph at Oakland Hills was also dramatic. D'Antonio's prose captures the excitement as Nicklaus rushes for the Slam, and even more enjoyable is the wealth of chatty material he offers on the Tour, from player critiques of Augusta and Pebble Beach to the degeneracy of the Crosby Pro-Am to Palmer's slow fade. Miniature portraits of Tour players like Tom Weiskopf, Johnny Miller, and Lee Elder round out the picture. A passionate, informed guide to the bellwether season that nowcan be seen as a turning point for golf, on the road out of the sporting shadows to become, remarkably, a glamour game
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786867165
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 5/15/2002
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 265
  • Product dimensions: 5.75 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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