Many golfers would agree with Andy Brumer that there is poetry in the game of golf. And Brumer is not the first to insist that there is more to the game than the superstars, swing gurus, and high-tech equipment that dominate talk of the game today. In this series of essays, Brumer, one of the most insightful writers on golf, considers the game from unexpected and often surprising angles. At once contemplative and compelling, The Poetics of Golf explores the links between golf and life by way of art and literature, philosophy and psychology. In portraits of various players-including Tiger…mehr
Many golfers would agree with Andy Brumer that there is poetry in the game of golf. And Brumer is not the first to insist that there is more to the game than the superstars, swing gurus, and high-tech equipment that dominate talk of the game today. In this series of essays, Brumer, one of the most insightful writers on golf, considers the game from unexpected and often surprising angles. At once contemplative and compelling, The Poetics of Golf explores the links between golf and life by way of art and literature, philosophy and psychology. In portraits of various players-including Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sorenstam, and Arnold Palmer, among others-Brumer teases out the truths that their games can tell us, not just about golf, but about character and courage. And he also offers an unconventional yet enlightening look at the intricacies of the golf swing, course architecture, and golfing equipment. Finally, his book reveals to us-in its content and also in its wide-ranging, often lyrical style-that golf is by no means only a game.
Andy Brumer is a freelance writer specializing in golf, art, and literature. Formerly the editor of Golf Tips magazine and Petersen's Golfing, he is the author of Guide to the Golf Revolution: How Technology Is Driving the Game and the coauthor, with Bobby Clampett, of The Impact Zone: Mastering Golf's Moment of Truth.
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Preface Part One. Golf as Memoir Taking It Back Inside Night Golf Sam Girls and Golf in Pinehurst Golfless in Berkeley Pure Wine Cheating at Golf Part Two. Lives of the Golfers What Do Golfers Want? Pro-trait #1: Arnold Palmer Light My Fivewood Pro-trait #2: Jack Nicklaus The Meaning of Tiger Woods Pro-trait #3: Bobby Jones Pro-trait #4: John Daly Pro-trait #5: Charles Howell III Mike Austin, "Mr. 515" Pro-trait #6: Gary Player Pro-trait #7: Fred Couples Big Shots at Bighorn (July 31, 2002) Pro-trait #8: Craig Stadler Pro-trait #9: Raymond Floyd's Swing Pro-trait #10: Annika Sorenstam Can You Have Too Much Love? Pro-trait #11: Se Ri Pak Canvassing the Course Pro-trait #12: Tom Watson Part Three. The Golf Swing as the Axis of the World Golf Mundi The Swing Sculpture "I've Got It!" (or the Madness of "Y") Basho's Haiku and the Three-ring Swing Fingerprint Swings Dream Lessons On Phil's Watch The Zen Puppet Swing Telling Golf's Secret Seeing the Light Bending Hogan The Pathological Driving Range Piano Lessons to Nobody Part Four. Golf as a Tool Chest Faithless to the Fourteen The Half-degree Solution Strokes of Genius About Face Vestigial Headcovers Part Five. Golf and the Soul The Golf Course as a Work of Art Golf and Creativity Golf and Spirituality Bob'n Around Golf's Imponderables (and an Answer from Jack Kerouac) Winter Scene with Figures Playing Kolf Source Acknowledgments
Preface Part One. Golf as Memoir Taking It Back Inside Night Golf Sam Girls and Golf in Pinehurst Golfless in Berkeley Pure Wine Cheating at Golf Part Two. Lives of the Golfers What Do Golfers Want? Pro-trait #1: Arnold Palmer Light My Fivewood Pro-trait #2: Jack Nicklaus The Meaning of Tiger Woods Pro-trait #3: Bobby Jones Pro-trait #4: John Daly Pro-trait #5: Charles Howell III Mike Austin, "Mr. 515" Pro-trait #6: Gary Player Pro-trait #7: Fred Couples Big Shots at Bighorn (July 31, 2002) Pro-trait #8: Craig Stadler Pro-trait #9: Raymond Floyd's Swing Pro-trait #10: Annika Sorenstam Can You Have Too Much Love? Pro-trait #11: Se Ri Pak Canvassing the Course Pro-trait #12: Tom Watson Part Three. The Golf Swing as the Axis of the World Golf Mundi The Swing Sculpture "I've Got It!" (or the Madness of "Y") Basho's Haiku and the Three-ring Swing Fingerprint Swings Dream Lessons On Phil's Watch The Zen Puppet Swing Telling Golf's Secret Seeing the Light Bending Hogan The Pathological Driving Range Piano Lessons to Nobody Part Four. Golf as a Tool Chest Faithless to the Fourteen The Half-degree Solution Strokes of Genius About Face Vestigial Headcovers Part Five. Golf and the Soul The Golf Course as a Work of Art Golf and Creativity Golf and Spirituality Bob'n Around Golf's Imponderables (and an Answer from Jack Kerouac) Winter Scene with Figures Playing Kolf Source Acknowledgments
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