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Curt Sampson draws an affectionate and definitive portrait of The British Open, drawing from its rich past to its exciting present.
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For a century and a half, the best players in the world have, once a year, attempted to beat the weather, the pressure, and one of the toughest courses in the world at the British Open. Curt Sampson, the best-selling author of Hogan and The Masters, draws an affectionate and definitive portrait of this legendary tournament, drawing from its rich past to its exciting present. The thread of Royal and Ancient is the 1999 championship-the most astonishing four days in British Open history. Sampson follows the travails at Carnoustie of Steve Elkington, the icy chemist, Andrew McGee, the struggling hopeful, and Jean Van de Velde during his dramatic collapse on the final day, probing both Van de Velde and his caddie for their emotional insights. The rich British Open history is reported like never before by this talented author. With an insider's knowledge and expertise, he draws the reader into a rarefied atmosphere of tradition and myth, telling the amazing-and sometimes heartbreaking-stories of past champions, of triumphs and tragedies, of deaths and ghosts.
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