The Game I Love: Wisdom, Insight, and Instruction from Golf's Greatest Player

by Sam Snead

A golfer who has won more tournaments than any other shares tips and advice, as well as never-before-told anecdotes that integrate insight into the mental strategy of the game as well as into the swings and putts. (Sports).

Genres: Sports, Autobiography

264 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 1997

Reviews

[Mr. Kovach · Rating 3 out of 5]

A light read, including some interesting tidbits about fellow golfers Nelson, Hogan, Nicklaus, Palmer, and Player, with lots of tips to hone that gold swing, the most important of which is How do ya get to Carnegie Hall (Snead hit 500 balls a day), and a weird aside about killing a snake.

[erik nerdalen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very quick read with a bunch of short stories about all things golf written by Sam Snead. I enjoyed reading about his insights on golf and will use some of his advice on my game.

[Richard Walden · Rating 5 out of 5]

A real pleasure, but it needs to be balanced by reading Al Barkow's biography. Nobody played great golf longer than Sam did. He was a complex person, not the hillbilly he was often taken for.

[Monte Lamb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anecdotes and lessons from the life of Sam Snead make this a light, quick, and entertaining book to read. It is excellent for anyone that enjoys golf, its history, or just some plain old good story-telling. If you really want to read about his life, get his autobiography, THE EDUCATION OF A GOLFER published about 1960. Most of the stories from this book are given in greater detail in the autobiography.