The Secret Of Golf: The Story Of Tom Watson And Jack Nicklaus

Try it Now Firm without compromise. Cancel whenever you want.

Synopsis

From “one of the best sportswriters in America” (The Washington Times)—the New York Times bestselling story of the friendship and rivalry between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, whose sparring matches defined the sport for more than a decade.

The first time they met, at an exhibition match in 1967, Tom Watson was a seventeen-year-old high school student and Jack Nicklaus, at twenty-seven, was already the greatest golfer in the world. Though they shared some similarities—they were both Midwestern boys who had learned how to play golf at their fathers’ country clubs—they differed in many ways. Nicklaus played a game of consummate control and precision. Watson hit the ball all over the place. Nicklaus lacked charm and theatrics, and he was thoroughly despised by most golf fans because he had displaced Arnold Palmer as king of the golf world. Watson was one of those Arnold Palmer fans. Yet over the next twenty years their seemingly divergent paths collided as they battled against each other again and again for a place at the top of the sport and drove each other to ever-soaring heights of accomplishment.

Spanning from that first match through the “Duel in the Sun” at Turnberry in 1977 to Watson’s miraculous near-victory at Turnberry as he approached sixty, and informed by interviews with both players over many years, The Secret of Golf is Joe Posnanski’s intimate account of the most remarkable rivalry and (eventual) friendship in modern golf.

Chapters

  • The Secret of Golf 01 open

    Duration: 33s
  • The Secret of Golf 02 Hitting

    Duration: 10min
  • The Secret of Golf 03 Every Shot

    Duration: 04min
  • The Secret of Golf 04 Hole No1

    Duration: 12min
  • The Secret of Golf 05 Perfect the Grip

    Duration: 03min
  • The Secret of Golf 06 Hole No2

    Duration: 10min
  • The Secret of Golf 07 The Lie

    Duration: 03min
  • The Secret of Golf 08 Hole No3

    Duration: 13min
  • The Secret of Golf 09 Study Better Players

    Duration: 03min
  • The Secret of Golf 10 Hole No4

    Duration: 10min
  • The Secret of Golf 11 Don't Feel Pressure

    Duration: 04min
  • The Secret of Golf 12 Hole No5

    Duration: 20min
  • The Secret of Golf 13 Overestimate the Wind

    Duration: 03min
  • The Secret of Golf 14 Hole No6

    Duration: 19min
  • The Secret of Golf 15 Score Well

    Duration: 03min
  • The Secret of Golf 16 Hole No7

    Duration: 13min
  • The Secret of Golf 17 A Positive Thought

    Duration: 03min
  • The Secret of Golf 18 Hole No8

    Duration: 15min
  • The Secret of Golf 19 Simplify

    Duration: 03min
  • The Secret of Golf 20 Hole No9

    Duration: 18min
page 1 from 2