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 enlarge | Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 15506
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0316014303
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352660973
EAN: 9780316014304
ASIN: 0316014303
Publication Date: May 2, 2007
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 Feinstein Fatigue August 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read many of Feinstein's previous works and enjoyed some of them immensely. A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled were outstanding. His last two books, however, have been disappointing.
Perhaps his style is such that over time it begins to wear and grate on you. I could swear that he wrote a similar book on Q school some years ago. Much of the story seems very familiar, though with different names. The old 40 something year old pro trying for one last shot. The former major winner relegated to Q school. The hot young junior golfer suddenly struggling to make the show. I've heard it before and to make matters worse, Feinstein seems to repeat himself throughout the book. He tells a story in the foreward and then repeats it in the body of the book, perhaps to beef up a work that can easily be read in one sitting.
If you watch the television special on Q school each year, you get the same story with video. Hold out for the TV special.
 Must for any level golfer August 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I could'nt put this on down. Having read A Good Walk Spoiled some time ago I had forgotten how well John covers the topics he writes on. The Q school has got to be one of the hardest hustles there is and John as usual makes you feel as if you are there too if only as a spectator. Which for me would be plenty. I play alot of golf and keeping your mind in it helps an awful lot. I actually played better. I look foward to re-reading Good Walk and buying Open and Caddie for Life. Thank You.
 As appealing as a triple bogey July 21, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
As an avid golfer and a constant reader, I generally find most golf books quite entertaining (example "First Off the Tee". This book was as exciting as watching paint dry. The stories of the golfers trying to get a tour card are too similiar and within 20 pages more or less all seem about the same. I do not recommend this book to even the most avid golfer, the author has made our sport about as interesting as oh say curling.
 Below Par (Not good in this case) July 16, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Feinstein refers to Q School as "Golf's Fifth Major." That is rather presumptuous, but the TV coverage of Q School is one of my favorite viewings of the TV year. Why? Because it presents almost every level of emotion - tension, fear, disappointment, delight, disillusionment, crushing sadness. As a viewer, you are on the edge of your seat, rooting or commiserating with someone you do not know. I had expected the same from this book. I did not get it. In golfing parlance, this book barely makes the cut.
While it will be of interest to anyone seriously interested in behind the scenes on the PGA Tour, the author seems to struggle with his writing and flow as much as any of the golfers he chronicles. The narrative is often repetitive (almost in cut and paste format) and the individual stories Feinstein relates are so similar to the previous ones he has just related, you start to lose interest.
Feinstein's problem with this book is that he doesn't draw personalities you want to root for. He also took on an impossible task trying to paint a process which initially starts with the 1205 golfers who initially entered Q School. Because so many of the preliminary events were held at the same time, he fails to provide any real depth to them.
And then when he takes us to the final six days ... well ... it never comes alive.
One of the learnings from the book though is that man is optimistic by nature. So many of the golfers display hope over realism, always believing that their game is good enough to take on Woods and Mickelson. Feinstein's problem here is that he hits it into the woods very early and fails to hack his way out.
From someone who has written a number of great books on golf, this is a disappointment.
Q school review July 13, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you like "inside" stories about the PGA tour, and trying to stay on it you will enjoy this book! Feinstein had great sources for this book and he takes you inside the ropes and you can almost feel the pain these guy are enduring trying to get their tour cards. Well worth the read!
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