The Old Man and the Tee
How I Took Ten Strokes Off My Game and Learned to Love Golf All Over Again
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The Old Man and the Tee presents one man's hilarious and heartwarming quest to drop 10 strokes from his golf game in a year, using the top teachers, pros, and equipment money can buy.
As a kid caddying for his father on the sunburned links of West Texas, Turk Pipkin had dreamed of great achievements in golf. Unfortunately, life got in the way. A lack of talent didn't help much either. It was not until his father passed away that Turk realized he'd forgotten his childhood dream and had lost the simple joy he'd once found in the game.
Deciding that the time for all his pitiful golf excuses was past, Turk embarked upon the golf quest of a lifetime. For twelve months, he'd ignore work and other distractions, and dedicate himself to the game. He'd seek instruction from golf's greatest teachers, put the best equipment in his bag, and play the world's finest courses. His seemingly impossible goal was to take ten strokes off his 16-handicap.
With lessons from David Leadbetter, Dave Pelz, and Ben Crenshaw, and with spiritual guidance from great old men like Willie Nelson, George Plimpton, and Byron Nelson, Turk's epic journey carries him from Pebble Beach to Scotland and back again, where he risks everything on one final round for his father.
Follow Turk on the journey of a lifetime, and learn to love golf-and life- all over again.
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In this breezy and enjoyable memoir, Pipkin (Fast Greens) recounts how he abandoned both family and career to shave 10 strokes off his golf game. After deserting the celebrity pro-am at Pebble Beach to rush to his dying father's bedside, Pipkin later returns to celebrate his father's memory by playing the dream round that his long-ailing father never got to play. But after he shoots a sloppy 89, the one-day tribute morphs into a year-long odyssey. Determined to return to Pebble a year later and break 80, Pipkin gets outfitted with a custom set of clubs and enlists the finest instructors in the country. Although he repeatedly complains about his dwindling bank account, he somehow finds the cash to install a $10,000 artificial putting green in his backyard and make a pilgrimage to Scotland's most hallowed courses. But Pipkin may have had some well-connected support a few sections read like advertisements for Callaway Golf or the David Leadbetter Golf Academy. In the end, it turns out somewhat depressingly that to drop 10 strokes you simply need to be wealthy enough to forgo work and play luxury courses aided by the very best equipment and golf instruction available.
