Q School Confidential by David Gould

Q School Confidential by David Gould

In 1999, the PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament---known to many as Q School---found itself sitting on 35 years of unique history. Q School Confidential chronicles this tournament's deep, dense story of heartbreak, black humor, back-room politics and magnificent golf under dire circumstances.

Using the 1998 PGA TOUR Qualifying School finals as his backdrop, golf writer David Gould recounts for the first time ever the history of the pro tour's annual qualifier, with revealing anecdotes about raw rookies, aging veterans and every dreamer in between. The vintage stories in the Q School's near and distant past tell of emotional and physical breakdown---and courage, as well---under pressure: Jim Carter's self-confessed choke stories of 1990 and 1992; Mark McCumber's recurring lost-scorecard nightmare; Peter Jacobsen's ordeal with a cheater on the Mexican border; Jim McLean's bizarre arrest on the qualifier's eve; and Mac O'Grady's violent celebration of his long-awaited Q School success. The players captured in these pages turn white with panic, vomit their breakfast, sleep in their cars, practice on interstate ranges, lose golf shoes, forget contact lenses and make fateful decisions based on faulty information.

Sifting back through several eras, Gould explains the innocent aims of the first Q Schools and uncovers the tournament's pivotal role in the momentous split-up of the PGA and the PGA TOUR. He examines the difficult question of how professional golf should go about bringing in new players and letting former players regain their privileges. In the voices of forgotten or never-known tour pros from the 1970s, he narrates the frustrating rabbit era that Q School helped create, and revisits the infamous breakaway Q School of 1968. In notes that accompany this book's exclusive year-by-year scoring records, the author picks out hidden turning points, bits of trivia and strange coincidences in the lives of tour players past and present.

These profiles and snapshots of the earliest Q School survivors and the most recent graduates, as well, are woven together in a warm, engaging and insightful narrative. Q School Confidential, sometimes bleak, sometimes triumphant, provides the first and only inside look at a cruel and unusual tournament that many consider golf's toughest test of all.

David E. Gould began his training in Shotokan Karate in 1977, receiving his black belt in 1982. Since 1983 he has trained in numerous Filipino, Indonesian and Thai warrior arts, in the United States and in their respective countries of origin, but he is best known for his association with the Lameco Eskrima system and its founder, Punong Guro Edgar G. Sulite.

From 1992, Gould trained under Punong Guro Sulite several times a week as a private student and as part of the Sulite Orehenal Group, until Punong Guro was felled by a stroke while training in the Philippines in 1997. Since then Gould has taught hundreds of Lameco Eskrima seminars, workshops and training camps around the world. He also trains select elite military and law enforcement personnel in several countries around the world.

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ISBN 13	9780312289171
ISBN 10	0312289170
Titel	Q School Confidential
Autor	David Gould
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	St Martin's Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-01-16
Seitenanzahl	336
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