This riotously funny story follows one weekend golfer who lived his dream and devoted a full year to nothing but the quixotic Quest to enter the notoriously grueling PGA Tour Qualifying School with his girlfriend tagging along as caddy.
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..
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.
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.
Charting his journey, which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr.
Overweight and burdened by a 14 handicap, he decided to find out for himself what it takes to Play like a pro.
Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the Pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed.
Everything the big boys have access to, I want double. . . .
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.
Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training.
This riotously funny story follows one weekend golfer who lived his dream and devoted a full year to nothing but the quixotic Quest to enter the notoriously grueling PGA Tour Qualifying School with his girlfriend tagging along as caddy
