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"Frost captures an elusive magic in this improbable matchup and what it meant for those who played and witnessed it."―Publishers Weekly"The Match was a dream I never thought would come true. If I hadn't been there I wouldn't believe it myself, and if you know anything about sports or the game of golf, once you pick up this book you won't put it down. No one will ever see an event like this again. Fiction can't touch it."―Ken Venturi
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About the Author
Mark Frost is the bestselling author of The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam, Game Six, and the novels The Second Objective, The List of Seven, The Six Messiahs, and the young-adult series The Paladin Prophecy. He received a Writers Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for the acclaimed television series Hill Street Blues, was co-creator and executive producer of the legendary ABC television series Twin Peaks, and in 2005 wrote and produced The Greatest Game Ever Played as a major motion picture from Walt Disney Studios. Mark lives in Southern California with his wife and son.
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Product details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Hachette Books; Reprint edition (March 17, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1401309615
ISBN-13: 978-1401309619
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
607 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#11,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
A good account of four trailblazers of U.S. golf in the 1940 - 60s, told interestingly between holes of a 1956 impromptu 18-hole best ball match between then-best active players Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Ken Venturi and Harvie Ward. Frost is a good golf story teller whose occasional run-on sentences could use a decent editor, but otherwise, entertaining account of a spectacular one off match and the complete life stories of four successful golfers who paved the way for fellows named Palmer and Nicklaus, and yes, the entire PGA. A must read for any serious golf history understanding. Includes a short history of the development of Cypress Point and the Monterey Peninsula.
I’m 60 years old and loved and played golf for over 20 years until severe back problems forced me to quit (along with all the other sports I love, especially running). I knew all four players in this story except for Harvie Ward, whom I had never heard of. Since the game the book is about took place in 1956, I wasn’t even born yet so I never saw any of the players play. But of course I knew who Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson and Ken Venturi were. Ken was still announcing golf on TV when I was younger and I knew Mr. Nelson as the old gentleman who would open the Masters with a ceremonial first drive. The only thing I knew about Ben Hogan’s life I learned from the movie “Follow The Sunâ€, which I didn’t realize was such a poorly shallow rehash of Hogan’s life. But that was really all I knew about them and it’s really a shame that you could live for 60 years, love golf and NOT know this story (or more about the men in it). I think I remember reading that they were making a movie based on this book but if not, they really should. The movie “The Greatest Game Ever Playedâ€, based on the book of the same name (and coincidentally written by the same author) is the best golf movie in existence in my opinion. When I was a teenager, even Arnold Palmer was past his playing prime and so was Jack Nicklaus except for his amazing Masters victory at aged 47 (I can’t swear to his age but for an athlete he was old and I don’t mean that in a disrespectful way at all). There is a postscript to this book and it was, for me at least, a must read. I’d recommend reading this book to the very end since it tells of the man and woman who actually designed and built Cypress Point. The guy who designed it also designed a little course called Augusta National. Buy this book and read it. You won’t regret it even if you don’t play golf. My only regret is that I didn’t know this story or about Cypress Point when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton early in my Marine Corps career. If I had, I would have made the drive just to see the course even if it wasn’t possible to play it.
I don't play golf but my husband and son do so I read this book to be able to discuss it with them. I was surprised to find that it was a wonderful read that gave me real insight to the people who played the game for all the right reasons. I loved hearing about how some of the women influenced the game and the description of Cypress Point. It is amazing to know how the game got its start in America and how much it has improved over the years. Very enjoyable.
Was introduced to Mark Frost through his fantastic book, The Greatest Game Ever Played (the movie does not do it justice) and bought this to replace my copy I had bought a few years ago, lent out and have yet to have returned. This book is able to wind golf history, Hollywood and an incredible four ball match seamlessly in a way that you will want to keep reading it. I have never played Cypress Point but felt I was right there with each shot. It was if I was walking the fairways with an old friend who, in between shots, tells you a little side story as to the history of each player and how he had arrived here. In recently re-reading it I had forgot how much I had enjoyed it the first few times I read it.
This is my favorite golf history book.Golf and baseball are two sports that translate best into good literature. The Match is reminiscent of Peter Gammons’ Beyond The Sixth Game because it’s primary thesis is that The Match involving Hogan, Nelson, Venturi & Ward - like the Red Sox - Reds game in the 1975 World Series - changed the sport for ever.The biographies of the four men at the center of The Match, which biographies are presented in the book, are compelling. The backdrop of Cypress Hill is special. I recommend reading it by referring to a map of each hole of the course. You can pinpoint each shot, which Mark Frost presents in detail.An added bonus is the story of Marion Hollins, the woman behind the development ofCypress Hill and later Pasatiempo.I can not say enough about this wonderful book. All the more so because The Match was played on the day of my birth - January 11, 1956.
I read this book because after seeing the film "Greatest Game Ever Played," I wanted more information on the various players in the U.S. Open that is the subject of the film. This book is filled with historical significance about the beginning of professional golf, and the details of this particular match, two professional versus two amateurs, are both interesting and informative. The writing is spare (think a Clint Eastwood film) but in this instance, the word is worth a thousand pictures (as opposed to a picture being worth a thousand words). After reading this book, I ordered "Greatest Game Ever Played" knowing the writing was to my liking.
One of the most entertaining books I've read in quite some time. The book was very well written and held my interest throughout. What made it even more interesting was the way the author interspersed the stories of the main characters with the story of this ultimate golf match between the two best amateurs of the time against arguably the two best pros of the time. The hole-by-hole description of the match was so vivid it was almost like watching it on TV.
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