This Golfing Life

About this book

Michael Bamberger has led a lucky golfing life: caddying on the PGA Tour falling under the spell of a golf master in Scotland and hanging out with Arnold Palmer at the Masters. For the past two decades hes been writing about the game for newspapers in books and since the start of the Tiger era as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. This Golfing Life is the story of Bambergers golf journey from a young man trying to find a home in golf to a middle-aged man whose best friendships and best times come out of the game. It brings together Bambergers celebrated and intimate reporting on Tiger Woods Arnold Palmer Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie and portrays the behind-the-ropes golf people who give the game its texture: the caddie-yard lifers golf bums iconoclastic architects powerful TV executives swing gurus desperate parents eager rookies and wistful veterans. Theyre all here culled from the best of the authors work over the past twenty years. Bamberger has rewritten these stories and woven them and his own golf experiences into one single seamless and exhilarating narrative. It will remind golfers why they fell in love with the game in the first place and alert nongolfers to what they are missing.