The Match:
The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
by Mark Frost
Hyperion
Aside from the overheated title, everything else works in this nifty little tale from master storyteller Mark Frost, who gifted golf audiences a few years back with the Francis Ouimet saga, The Greatest Game Ever Played. His latest effort deals with a relatively unknown (though legendary to golf insiders) match between pros Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson and amateurs Ken Venturi and Harvie Ward. For course connoisseurs, the backdrop of Cypress Point is reason enough to buy the book.

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