Byron Nelson

This fascinating guide explores some of the most interesting, challenging, historic and scenic golf holes in the Lone Star State.

Golfmasters: A Sure Way To Better Golf is a comprehensive guide to improving one's golf game, written by the legendary golfer Sam Snead. The book covers all aspects of the game, including technique, strategy, mental approach, and physical fitness. Snead draws on his decades of experience as a professional golfer to provide practical advice and tips that can help golfers of all skill levels improve their game. The book is organized into chapters that cover topics such as the grip, swing, putting, chipping, and bunker play. Snead also includes sections on course management, mental toughness, and maintaining a healthy body and mind. Golfers looking to take their game to the next level will find this book to be an invaluable resource. Fourteen Champions Write A Book. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A volume of golf lore and practical advice by a head professional at Hollywood's Bel-Air Country Club shares stories about his interactions with such individuals as Bobby Jones, Tiger Woods, and Bing Crosby while offering lighthearted insights about the game's mental, physical, and technical aspects. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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.

Behind-the-scenes story of this ground-breaking golf show from the birth of televised sports, as witnessed by the show's writer, Barkow, and host Sarazen's daughter. Includes 50 historical photos and 15 private letters to the legendary golfer Bobby Jones.