This coffee-table book practically puts you on the 18th green on the final day of a championship tournament. It retraces golf’s greatest players and biggest tournaments as told through rarely scene pages from The Times archives. The anthology comes with a stately green leatherette cover that can be personalized with the recipient’s name.
“Golf’s Greatest Moments” spans more than a century of men’s golf, beginning in 1913 when an unknown amateur, Francis Ouimet, won the U.S. Open by defeating top golfers from England (“Remarkable Golf Feat; Splendid Display of Nerve”).
From there, this 12” x 15” book brings readers golf’s indelible moments, including Bobby Jones winning four majors in 1930, Ben Hogan coming back from an automobile accident to win the U.S. Open in 1950 and Bob Goalby winning the 1968 Masters after a scorecard error (“The Slip of a Pen: For Goalby, a Smile of Victory and for de Vicenzo, a Time of Sorrow”).
It brings you the excitement of Arnold Palmer's victories in the early 1960s, Jack Nicklaus’s glory days at the Masters and Tiger Woods’s long dominance as well as his return to the top in 2019 (“The Old Look Is Back”). Through on-the-scene accounts by Times writers and photographers, this book provides memorable articles on Byron Nelson, Sam Sneed, Walter Hagen, Tom Watson, Charlie Sifford, Lee Trevino, Payne Stewart, Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson and many other stars.
Contains 75 pages, more than 20 of them in color. Comes with a 2.5" x 7.5" magnifier and a certificate of authenticity. If personalized, the recipient’s name is stamped in silver foil on the cover.
Produced in Vermont.
