Michael Bamberger, senior writer at Sports Illustrated and author of
the highly acclaimed Wonderland, has been writing about golf for twenty
years. He has lived the game as few others have--from his experience as
one of the first white, college-educated caddies in 1985, to hanging out
with Arnold Palmer at the Masters. This Golfing Life brings together
Bamberger's acclaimed, intimate profiles of stars (Tiger, Jack, and
Annika to name a few), as well as the behind-the-scenes people who make
the game what it is. In his last round of golf before an amputation,
Bamberger's high school golf coach, John Sifaneck, makes his first
hole-in-one; John Stark gets Bamberger to relearn the game as a
Scotsman; Bob Rubin, a Wall Street master-of-the-universe, builds his
own golf course--one so difficult he can't break 100 on it; Bruce
Edwards continues to caddie for Tom Watson while dying of ALS (Lou
Gehrig's disease). Bamberger interweaves these stories with his own life
in a way that will remind golfers why they love the game.