Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros

Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros

by Tom Coyne
Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros

Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros

by Tom Coyne

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Overview

"Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double." Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed. Overweight and burdened by a 14 handicap, he decided to find out for himself what it takes to play like a pro.

Charting his journey, which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttie—Paper Tiger takes readers from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tour—where forty-mile-per-hour winds and a driving rain scare off his Japanese partners. With each chapter, he tracks his weight alongside his handicap, pursuing his dream with a reckless abandon that comes to involve hardcore diets, pricey technology, even psychologists. With echoes of Dead Solid Perfect and Who's Your Caddy? Tom brings his uniquely edgy, deeply human perspective to a game that can simultaneously bring out the best and the worst in everyone who tries to master it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101216804
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/01/2006
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 268,013
File size: 691 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Tom Coyne is the author of the novel A Gentleman’s Game and cowriter of the screenplay for the novel’s film version, which starred Dylan Baker and Gary Sinise. He is a contributor to Golf Magazine and teaches creative writing at St. Joseph’s University.

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Mark Frost

For anyone who's ever suffered the delusion they have enough game to go up against the professional killers who play golf for a living, here's the cold, hilarious truth. (Mark Frost, author of The Greatest Game Ever Played and The Grand Slam)

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From his commitment to the curious cause to his single-minded focus, Coyne weaves an insightful and entertaining tale. . . .[H]is self-deprecating writing style and impeccable comedic timing make Paper Tiger a tale worth reading. (Golfweek)

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