Tiptoeing Through Hell: Playing the U.S. Open on Golf's Most Treacherous Courses – A 50-Year History of the Difficult Major and Punitive Fairways, Rough, and Greens

by John Strege

Veteran golf writer John Strege gives you the history and takes you behind the scenes of the US Open, considered the most difficult tournament in golf. The US Open Golf tournament, one of the four 'Majors' together with The Masters, The British Open, and the PGA, is widely considered the most difficult of the four tournaments. Each year the tournament is played on a different course. Fifty years ago the US Golf Association, whose tournament this is, decided the condition of the courses had to be toughened. The fairways on the designated course narrowed, the rough was allowed to grow tall and the greens were mowed close and rolled frequently, producing surfaces whose slickness the pros have compared to billiard tables. In Tiptoeing Through Hell , John Strege has chronicled the last 50 years of the tournament when these punitive conditions have held sway.

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First published May 1, 2002

About the author

John Strege is the author of seven previous books, two of them New York Times bestsellers: "Tiger: A Biography of Tiger Woods" and "18 Holes with Bing: Golf, Life, and Lessons from Dad," co-authored with Bing Crosby’s son Nathaniel Crosby. Strege’s book "When War Played Through: Golf During World War II" won the United States Golf Association’s International Book Award in 2005. He has an active baseball writer for twenty years and has worked for Golf Digest magazine since 1997. He is a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Baseball Writers Association of America and a member of the Golf Writers Association of America. He and his family live in Colorado.

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[J.C. · Rating 1 out of 5]

I forgot I read this book. I might not have finished it either. riveting.