Embedded balls : adventures on and off the Tour with golf's premier storyteller

Jacobsen, Peter 1954- (Author). Sheehan, Jack (Jack Edward), 1949- (Added Author).

Summary: From one of golf's funniest, most popular players comes another hilarious look inside the pro sport and the people who play it. For nearly thirty years, Peter Jacobsen--player, entertainer, (off- ) color commentator, television host, golf-course designer, and entrepreneur--has been a favorite of fans and fellow golfers. From Jack Nicklaus to Michelle Wie, Tiger Woods to Vijay Singh, Jacobsen takes you behind the scenes of the pro tour like no one else can. Throughout, it is a book filled with wit, warmth, insight, and just plain fun.--From publisher description.

Item details

ISBN: 0399153160
ISBN: 9780399153167
Physical Description: print
206 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Memories of Payne 9 -- 2 Tinseltown and Big John 25 -- 3 Plugged In 41 -- 4 A Breakout Year 55 -- 5 Hartford in My Heart 73 -- 6 Please...I'm Trying to Concentrate Here 83 -- 7 A Senior Moment...Interrupted 91 -- 8 The U.S. Senior Open: How It All Went Down 107 -- 9 The Pros and the Ams 131 -- 10 Tiger and Fluff...and Other Stuff 147 -- 11 Carrying On a "Tradition" 163 -- 12 Things We Can Do Better 183.