A Golfer’s Dream: How a Regular Guy Conquered the Golf Digest List of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses
Filed in Product Review on Jun.23, 2010
Product Description
A Golfer’s Dream describes one man’s experience playing Golf Digest’s top 100 courses.
In summer 2002, after a ten-year quest, Larry Berle completed playing the Golf Digest Top 100 golf courses in the U.S. His journey is detailed in this book.
In this 215 page book, Berle describes his favorite and not-so-favorite courses, his personal experiences, the friends he made, the history and culture of the clubs, and—most important—how he managed to pull off suc… More >>
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:52 am
Mark Twain may have called these 100 good walks spoiled, but I call them 100 good walks turned great. I found this book fascinating and a wonderful, fun read!! The author tells stories of how he got on these exclusive courses and the people he met and the experiences he had. I’d often dream of playing the Top 100 golf courses in America. This guy actually did it and takes me through it as though I lived it.
The story of how he got on Augusta is captivating. I can’t believe he even met a member, let alone talked his way into an invitation to play what may be the most hallowed ground in all of Golf. Having just watched the U.S. Open at Oakmont on TV, Berle give me a fresh insight into how hard this place really is for us average golfers. I don’t know if Berle is a sports writer or not. If he’s not. He should be!! I would recommend this to all my friends both golfers and non golfers!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:43 am
The concept of playing the country’s top 100 golf courses is entirely interesting to me but the delivery in this book became repetitive and lacked depth. The book takes a look at every single course the author plays in the top 100 and consequently it seems rushed and not a lot of detail is given on each of the experiences. I wish more time was spent describing the experience at each of the exclusive clubs in a richer fashion than was used. Similarly the stories told about how the author gained access to these courses was far less interesting than I anticipated as basically it became a tale of who he knows that allows him access.
The book also has quite a few factual inaccuracies, especially the chapter about Augusta. The author states that BIlly Joe Patton was the only amateur to lead the Masters (Ken Venturi also did) and that Fred Couples’ ball hung up on the bank of Augusta’s 13th hole after his second shot, when actually it was his after his first shot to the 12th.
I read this book on Kindle and unfortunately the formatting was very poor.
Rating: 2 / 5
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:53 am
This is a wonderful book. It is the story of one mans quest to play the top 100 golf courses in the US and how he got on those coveted places, like Augusta National and lots of others. If you have a dream you gotta read this
Annie BA Golfer’s Dream
Rating: 5 / 5