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Junior golf has evolved into a fierce training ground, where ultra high-tech cameras provide cutting-edge swing analysis and young players can spend every waking hour on the driving range. A behind-the-scenes look at golf's next generation.
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No longer the realm of quaint traditions and a
few weekly hours practicing chip shots, junior golf has evolved into a
fierce training ground, where ultra-high- tech cameras provide
cutting-edge swing analysis and young players spend almost every waking
hour on the driving range. Reporting from the front lines of this brave
new game, veteran golf journalist Kevin Cook spends a year inside the
guarded, security-gated David Leadbetter Golf Academy, a three-hundred-
acre golf mecca where teenagers attend an on-campus high school and live
in dorms alongside state-of- the-art putting greens, video facilities,
and manicured linksat a cost to their parents of more than $100,000 a
year. As often as not, the parents are more driven than the kids.
Driven also explores the scientific knowledge that has allowed upstarts
to uncork 320-yard drives and to play better than Tiger Woods and Phil
Mickelson played when they were juniors long agoway back in the 1990s.
Cook's subjects include teen superstar Michelle Wie and her pushy
parents; Ty Tyron, the youngest player to ever win a Tour card (now a
burnout at the age of twenty- three); Mu Hu, expected by his Chinese
fans to be the Yao Ming of golf; and tennis superstar Ivan Lendl's
daughter, Isabelle, who might be the next Annika Sorenstam.
Destined to change the way the world perceives the game, Driven is a
compelling, behind-the-scenes look at golf's next generation. |
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About the Author:
| Kevin Cook is the author of Tommy's Honor (Gotham Books,
2007) and writes the Lore column about golf history for GOLF
Magazine. An award-winning journalist, Cook has also been a
senior editor at Sports Illustrated, executive editor of Travel
& Leisure Golf, editor-in-chief at GOLF Magazine, and a guest
commentator on CNN and ESPN. |
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Product Details:
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ISBN: |
1592403948 |
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Publisher: |
Gotham |
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Publication Date: |
August 21, 2008 |
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Pages: |
240 pages |
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Dimensions: |
8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches |
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