The Game I Love

by Sam Snead, Fran Pirozzolo

Short of actually inventing the sport, Sam Snead has done more for golf than anyone else who ever swung a club. Over the course of a spectacular career that began in 1936--Snead, now eighty-five, still swings like a champion--the man who has won more tournaments than any golfer in history not only perfected the playing of the game, but helped make it an American institution.

In The Game I Love, Snead mixes expert advice on golf with unforgettable anecdotes. Acclaimed for his personality as much as for his professionalism, Snead shares the priceless strategies that helped to shape his success (and now yours), including instructions on the swing, wisdom on putting, and insight on the all important mental game.

If you're looking for pointers from the master on crushing drives down the fairway or just having more fun on the course, this is an absolute must for your golfing library.

Genres: Sports, Autobiography

240 pages, Hardcover

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.