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Slaying the Tiger: A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour
Written by Shane Ryan
Narrated by Sean Pratt
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For more than a decade, golf was dominated by one galvanizing figure: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. But as his star has fallen, a new, ambitious generation has stepped up to claim the crown. Once the domain of veterans, golf saw a youth revolution in 2014. In Slaying the Tiger, Shane Ryan introduces us to the volatile, colorful crop of heirs apparent who are storming the barricades of this traditionally old-fashioned sport.
As the golf writer for Bill Simmons's Grantland, Shane Ryan is the perfect herald for the sport's new age. In Slaying the Tiger, he embeds himself for a season on the PGA Tour, where he finds the game far removed from the genteel rhythms of yesteryear. Instead, he discovers a group of mercurial talents driven to greatness by their fear of failure and their relentless perfectionism. From Augusta to Scotland, with an irreverent and energetic voice, Ryan documents every transcendent moment, every press tent tirade, and every controversy that made the 2014 Tour one of the most exciting and unpredictable in recent memory.
As the golf writer for Bill Simmons's Grantland, Shane Ryan is the perfect herald for the sport's new age. In Slaying the Tiger, he embeds himself for a season on the PGA Tour, where he finds the game far removed from the genteel rhythms of yesteryear. Instead, he discovers a group of mercurial talents driven to greatness by their fear of failure and their relentless perfectionism. From Augusta to Scotland, with an irreverent and energetic voice, Ryan documents every transcendent moment, every press tent tirade, and every controversy that made the 2014 Tour one of the most exciting and unpredictable in recent memory.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5If you're an avid follower of professional golf this is an interesting read, but with some qualifications. Ryan followed the professional tour in 2014, so he was able to profile most of the players who are now providing the excitement that Tiger Woods once did—Jordan Spieth, Justin Day, Patrick Reed, etc. And he provides a lot of insight into what it really means to be on the tournament. Further, he does dig—in fact some of his chapters have received quite a lot of notoriety - particular the one on Reed as he dug up Reed's questionable behavior in college (alleged cheating, theft) as well as the one on Bubba Watson, who he accuses of being a hypocrite when it comes to his religion.But the problem is that he does not shy from expressing his personal opinions about people and places - and he can really be snarky, especially against those who, like Bubba, wouldn't sit down with him and pour out their life stories. And he can be downright mean—for example, he really attacks Florida and writes about it quite sneeringly as a tacky, lower-class place where obviously people of discerning taste would never choose to live—I don't live there, but still thought the description was below-the-belt.Essentially he's a National Enquirer type of reporter - probably gets a lot right about he digs up, but there's a tone of gossip and judgement that really doesn't below in first-rate reporting. So it's an interesting read, but I'd take everything he writes with a dose of scepticism.