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One of the best sportswriters alive one of the best titles of the year three cheers and fore!
Larry King, USA Today
If you are a fan of professional golf and if you plan to buy only one golf book this season, A Good Walk Spoiled is the one.
Philadelphia Inquirer
A good read rewarded the best-ever account of life on the PGA tour. Feinstein passes on [the players] thoughtsnot sound bitesin a way no other chronicler has, proving they are not faceless clones but caring, thoughtful, and very human men, riding a roller coaster of emotion, success, and excitement. Youll feel closer to them than ever before.
Golf magazine
If you want to eavesdrop on the PGA tour, John Feinsteins book is a wonderful, detailed account of tour life. It was so real, all of my bad shots came back to me.
Gary McCord
The golf tours true heart. Feinstein gets it right.
New York Times Book Review
A masterly storyteller. Feinstein has written an engrossing account of personal struggles and golfing heroics.
Washington Post
Riveting a good read, enhanced. Feinstein comes up with the goods.
Chicago Sun-Times
What Feinstein does better than anyone else is to make you understand the complex mix of psychology, group dynamics, and political pressures that make athletes tick. A Good Walk Spoiled is an insightful look at one of our best games.
Kirkus Reviews
A winner. Feinstein spent more than a year on the PGA tour and has convincingly captured that mercurial existence, providing the reader with an all-access pass to the tour, presented with the knowledge and understanding of an insider. The action never drags. Its fascinating inside stuff, and best of all, its fun.
Golf World
There is more to a Feinstein effort than his ability to gain access. Feinstein, invited into the lives of superstars and strugglers alike, went beyond tees and fairways and greens. What he came away with were insights into players pressures and problems, and personal glimpses of their triumphs and failures.
Palm Beach Post
A look at golf through the eyes of the players. Feinstein lets us know that these apparent automatons are humans whose emotions cause them to have good matches and bad matches just like anyone else. We get tension and drama, even dirt and back-biting.
San Jose Mercury News
A Good Walk Spoiled is as close as most people will get to understanding the guys they watch on TV each week hitting magnificent shots and missing meaningful putts. Feinstein, as always, is observant, insightful, and amusing.
Golfweek
For the golfer whod just as soon pass up a tee time as miss a PGA tournament on TV, the seasons must-read is A Good Walk Spoiled. One of the best-ever inside-the-ropes accounts of life on the PGA tour.
Golf Tips
If you play the game youll love A Good Walk Spoiled; and if you have any interest in the game at all, you wont be able to put it down.
St. Petersburg Times
The most insightful new golf book.
Seattle Times
Where Nobody Knows Your Name
One on One
Moment of Glory
Are You Kidding Me?
Living on the Black
Tales from Q School
Last Dance
Next Man Up
Let Me Tell You a Story
Caddy for Life
Open
The Punch
The Last Amateurs
The Majors
A March to Madness
A Civil War
Play Ball
Hard Courts
Forevers Team
A Season Inside
A Season on the Brink
Last Shot (A Final Four Mystery)
The Rivalry: Mystery at the World Series
Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open
Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl
Change-up: Mystery at the World Series
Running Mates (A Mystery)
Winter Games (A Mystery)
FOR MOM
FOR DANNY
With the hope that I can pass on to him the love that she gave me
ANYONE WHO HAS EVER PLAYED GOLF would doubtless agree that there are days when Mark Twains famous assessment of the game, Golf is a good walk spoiled, is 100 percent accurate. My wife, who does not play, always asks me, If you love golf so much, then why are you always in such a bad mood coming off the golf course?
It is a question I cant answer. A golfer understands; a nongolfer cant. Golf is addictive and aggravating. It is also energizing and enervating. But I think I can honestly say I have finally found a way to come off the golf course in a good mood: go out and