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Not Sampson, who deftly uses Carnoustie as a prism to refract the history of golf's most storied tournament. Weaving back and forth through time, Royal and Ancient links the 1999 champion--playoff winner Paul Lawrie--to champions past, from the first--Willie Park in 1860--to Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and to those such as Ben Hogan, Gary Player, and Tom Watson who've conquered the wind-wracked Carnoustie track before him. In his detailed recounting of '99 affair, Sampson certainly reports on the shots, but goes well beyond them into the minds of such competitors as veteran Steve Elkington; Zane Scotland, the youngest qualifier ever; and even John Philp, Carnoustie's proud, beleaguered superintendent, who constantly battled the elements and carping of the players and the press. Fittingly, the last word goes to Van de Velde, a fine golfer who chose the one moment the world was watching to come utterly undone. "It took a lot of bad luck for me to lose," he tells Sampson months after the tournament. "When I think about it now, I'm a little nostalgic.... It's not like I burn emotionally... but... I left more over there than I expected." Sampson brings it, and a good deal more, back for us. --Jeff Silverman
-The (Baton Rouge) Advocate
"Sampson has put together a great story of a powerful institution."
--austin.citysearch.com
"[Curt Sampson's] fine new book, The Masters, is the only way we mortals are ever going to gain entrée to the hallowed Augusta National Golf Club."
--The Dallas Morning News
Hogan
"Curt Sampson has dissected Ben Hogan and what he is about in greater detail than anyone. This is a fascinating look at perhaps the most feared and revered golfer of all time."
--Ben Crenshaw
"A superb and insightful portrait of the most elusive and complex champion in golf history . . . worth every damn cent you're asked for it."
--Guy Yocom, Golf Digest
"Rings true as a Hogan iron to the green." --Sam Blair, The Dallas Morning News
The Eternal Summer
"I must congratulate Curt Sampson for his passion for the game as well as his skill with a pen. . . . The Eternal Summer will make you feel like you are there at Augusta, Cherry Hills, St. Andrews, and many other places. I know. I was there."
--Dan Jenkins
"Moving, vivid, and funny . . . never a dull moment. . . . The Eternal Summer is the most enjoyable book on any subject I've read in a long time."
--Jack Purcell, Jr., publisher, Southern Links
"Nineteen-sixty was as interesting a year in golf as I've ever known. Curt Sampson has captured it perfectly and perceptively. This book should be in every golfer's library."
--Ben Wright, CBS-TV
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