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HoganBy Curt Sampson Ben Hogan won four U.S. Opens in six years, three of them after a near-fatal head-on automobile collision. Driven by an obsessive dedication to the game, legend has it, he practiced until his hands bled. The concentration and precision he exhibited on the course awed spectators and fellow players alike.
The MastersBy Curt Sampson The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestselling Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum façade of this famous Augusta course. And that heart belongs to the man who killed himself on the grounds two decades ago.
Golf DadsBy Curt Sampson The interplay between fathers and sons has long been one of golf’s most essential and enigmatic relationships. In Golf Dads, the best-selling writer and former touring professional Curt Sampson brings to life ten remarkable stories of golfers, their fathers, and the game that brings them together. The stories feature well-known subjects such as Michelle Wie, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, and David Feherty, as well as some surprises, such as six-year-old phenom A.J. Beechler--not yet known to the world.
The Eternal Summer
By Curt Sampson Was there ever a year in golf like 1960? Would Palmer win the mythical Grand Slam of golf? Could Hogan win one more major tournament? Was Nicklaus the real thing? Even more than an intimate portrait of these men and their exciting times, The Eternal Summer is also an entertaining, perceptive, and hypnotically readable exploration of professional golf in America. |
Texas Golf Legends - 1993"My first book was a collaboration with portrait artist Paul Milosevich. Paul supplied two images of each of the fifty legends from the very big state (Dan Jenkins helped us select them); I contributed fifty one-thousand word essays."
Full Court Pressure - 1995"When Michael Jordan quit the NBA for a year to play minor league baseball, the top team became, according to a golf buddy, the Seattle Supersonics."
The Masters - 1998"Arguably the only other golf institution with an image as scary as Hogan’s, the Masters hid in public view, its sugarcoated official history the only one most of us knew."
Five Fundamentals - 2002"An instruction book—my first and last—with the extraordinary Elkington. This is the rare instructional with a plot."
The Lost Masters - 2005"Lost Masters? In what sense can something so big get lost? Well, three ways I can think of, each of which you will discern if you pick up a copy of this account of the infamous Masters of 1968,"
Centennial - 2006"One hundred years of the Texas Golf Association."
Golf Dads - 2007"These essays about fathers include the infamous (Michelle Wie’s overbearing daddy), the tragic (Ben Hogan’s father was a suicide) the absent (Lee Trevino thinks he may have met his biological once) and the inspirational (Erling Jacobsen, father of Peter)."
The Eternal Summer - 1994"This was the first of my “year” books; it continues to sell in paper. The year was 1960. Jack Nicklaus, with his see-through blond crew-cut, was nineteen, turning twenty. He represented the future of professional golf."
Hogan - 1996"Grim, gray, and intensely private, William Ben Hogan presented a forbidding wall to potential biographers. But the least-covered and possibly best golfer in history had been..."
Royal and Ancient - 2000"A quiet restaurant in mid-town Manhattan: Random house editor Peter Borland suggests the veal, and then suggests I consider writing about another golf tournament."
Chasing Tiger - 2003"After producing most of a proposal for a book with this title, and having it more or less accepted by a publisher, New York author Mike D’Antonio decided he’d rather not write the damn thing."
The Slam - 2005"That’s the Slam as in Grand Slam, but a bit of research showed that that title had just been taken; at least four other authors and photo compilers produced books to commemorate Bobby Jones and his moment in the sun at the same time I did."
A Vision, Not a Blueprint - 2006"Privately printed biography of South Carolinan Weldon Wyatt; if you want one, contact Rosa Loyo at Sage Valley Country Club."
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