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| ![Match, The [Frost]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511TdiZTPcL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Author: Mark Frost
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: EBooks
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $8.96 (47%)
Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 222
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B000Y2R0F2
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever April 2, 2008
It is impossible to imagine any golfer not being absolutely thrilled with this book.
The description of the game makes you feel as if you are walking the course with the players and what players they were.
Great story of a great match March 31, 2008
A book for anyone who loves golf and its traditions. The conditions, the times and the principals will never converge again. At least we can savor the skillful retelling and wish that we could have been there to witness this singular event.
 Good Read March 20, 2008
Extremely good read but one has to question the accuracy of the shot by shot details since unfortunately only one of the participants is still alive. The most amazing thing to me is the quality of golf played on a quality golf course with irons the size of butter knives and drivers the size of today's hybrids. Not to mention balls that were like marshmallows. What could these players have done with 460cc drivers and Pro V1's?
That guy Frost can Write!!! March 18, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Mark Frost is to golf writing what Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Ken Venturi and Harvie Ward were to golf....
Some golf books you read and pass along to your friends. Some you keep. This is a Keeper of the first order. Your friends can buy their own...
As with his earlier golf books, "The Grand Slam" and "The Greatest Game Ever Played," Frost can tell a story, a story of people, personalities, a story of drama on and off the golf course, and he brings it all to together in such a warm, affectionate--sometimes critical, but always honest and objective--way that you, the reader, feel you know these people. You care about them. You feel their joy, their pain, their hopes, their dreams and their heartache. You pull for them.
Like the old CBS Televison series, "You Are There," Frost takes you "there", in this case to one of the greatest and most unusual matches ever played, and you, if not in body, then certainly in mind and spirit, are "there"
Great writer, great golfers and a great story makes for a great read which this book is.
One question, however. Given the antipathy Hogan felt for Nelson as their careers diverged--Nelson, once his best friend was not even invited to Hogan's by-invitation funeral--why did Hogan so readily agree to play the match with Nelson as his partner against Venturi and Ward?
If you know the answer or have an opinion, post it as a comment to this review...As Dan Jenkins would say, "Fairways and Greens...Fairways and Greens..." Keep hitting the fairways and the greens...and life will be good....
Book Review "The Match" March 15, 2008
"The Match" is without a doubt one of the best GOLF books ever written...For someone who has loved golf since the late 40's it has helped me re-live those wonderful years and some of the history of those four great players and that era...If you love golf and its history do not miss this book...It compares favorably to another great book "The Walter Hagen Story" ...If you love the game and its history, both books are must reads !
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