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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Playing golf on Christmas Day, Travis McKinley, 50, has a Zen-like vision and suddenly he is playing like a pro, which is a godsend because he has just been fired from his job, writing jingles for McDonald's and needs money. His golfing career zooms, but his marriage hits the skids. Still, it all turns out well in the end.
Author
Series
Big shots volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wells Whitaker was once golf's hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his "promising" career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one remaining supporter. No matter how bad he plays, the beautiful, sunny redhead is always on the sidelines. He curses, she cheers. He scowls, she smiles. But when Wells quits in a blaze of glory and his fangirl finally goes home, he knows he made the greatest mistake of his life. Josephine...
4) Back spin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When veteran golfer Jack Coldren, staging a comeback at the U.S. Open, is found dead in a sand trap, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates, digging through twenty years of secrets to find a killer who is closer to him than he imagined.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success -- and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2006.
Language
English
Description
The unapologetic bad boy of professional golf shares his philosophy in a memoir of the ups and downs of his personal and professional world, offering an account of booze, depression, weight problems, marital problems, and golf.
8) Tiger
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The rise, fall and epic comeback of global golf icon Tiger Woods is charted in this two-part documentary.
10) Annika Sorenstam
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
©2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A biography of Annika Sorenstam which introduces her athletic childhood in Sweden, her scholarship to the University of Arizona, and her success as a professional golfer in Europe and the U.S.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
To James Dodson, known to golf enthusiasts as an editor of Golf magazine and a premier authority on the sport, it seemed the times he shared the closest moments with his father were on the links. With his father approaching eighty, Dodson planned a dream golf trip through England and France, where the elder Dodson had first discovered his love for the game some fifty years earlier as an airman during World War II. But when he learned his father was...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Phil Mickelson is one of the most compelling figures in sports. For more than three decades he has been among the best golfers in the world, and his unmatched longevity was exemplified at the 2021 PGA Championship, when Mickelson, on the cusp of turning fifty-one, became the oldest player in history to win a major championship. In this raw, uncensored, and unauthorized biography, Alan Shipnuck captures a singular life defined by thrilling victories,...
14) Caddyshack
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III -- against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smails plays to win but his nubile niece lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10- foot putt. Insanity? No. Caddyshack."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The first time they met, at an exhibition match in 1967, Tom Watson was a seventeen-year-old high school student and Jack Nicklaus, at twenty-seven, was already the greatest golfer in the world. Though they shared some similarities?they were both Midwestern boys who had learned how to play golf at their fathers? country clubs?they differed in many ways. Nicklaus played a game of consummate control and precision. Watson hit the ball all over the place....
16) PGA tour 2K23
Publisher
2K Games
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Develop your PGA career and play against the pros.
17) The boy is back
Author
Series
Boy series volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A viral scandal draws notorious celebrity golfer Reed Stewart back to his tiny Indiana hometown, where he reunites with small business owner Becky Flowers in ways that challenge their perceptions about each other.
18) Happy Gilmore
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Although Happy dreams of becoming a professional hockey player, he discovers that his hockey slap shot translates to an astonishing 400 yard tee shot. So when his grandmother loses her home to the IRS, Happy decides to earn the house back by joining the pro golf tour, bringing his ferocious temper and outlandish antics to the well-tended fairways. Before long, Happy is a media sensation, attracting crowds and news cameras wherever he goes. But Happy's...
Author
Series
Travis McKinley novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
20) Annika Sorenstam
Author
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
©2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and career of Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam.
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