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    On the Tour with Harry Sprague: Letters of a Golf Pro to His Sponsor
    On the Tour with Harry Sprague: Letters of a Golf Pro to His Sponsor
    On the Tour with Harry Sprague: Letters of a Golf Pro to His Sponsor
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    On the Tour with Harry Sprague: Letters of a Golf Pro to His Sponsor

    By Herbert Warren Wind

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    America’s greatest golf writer cracks wise in this humorous peek inside the life and mind of an up-and-coming young pro

    If Hogan had to wait 15 years before winning the Open I guess even a natural athalete like me has to wait a couple of years huh?
     
    Harry Sprague may not be the most eloquent golfer on the winter circuit, but spelling and grammar are the least of his concerns. First, he has to work on his putting, which, due to the aradic nature of the greens at Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, the Arizona Country Club, and other Sun Belt courses, is keeping him out of the money.
     
    And speaking of money, Harry suspects that his current sponsorship deal—he runs a driving range from April to November for no salary in exchange for the cash to go on tour—might not be the fairest of deals.
     
    Finally, there are the fans. In California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida, beautiful women line the fairways hoping for a date with their favorite pro. But as Harry soon learns, if wedding bells don’t ring the following winter, he’ll have hell to pay.
     
    First published in Sports Illustrated, these humorous missives from the bottom rungs of the leader board will delight duffers and low handicappers alike.

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateJan 26, 2016
    ISBN9781504027540
    On the Tour with Harry Sprague: Letters of a Golf Pro to His Sponsor
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    Herbert Warren Wind

    Herbert Warren Wind (1916–2005) was a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker and a writer and editor for Sports Illustrated. The dean of American golf writers, he coined the term “Amen Corner” to describe the famous stretch of the Augusta National Golf Course and co-authored books with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus. A native of Brockton, Massachusetts, Wind graduated from Yale University and earned a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge. He began playing golf at a young age and competed in the 1950 British Amateur Championship. His elegant, richly detailed prose matched his meticulous golf course attire of a tweed jacket, shirt, tie, and cap—even in the warmest weather. Wind wrote or edited fourteen books during his lifetime, including The Story of American Golf (1948), The Gilded Age of Sport (1961), Herbert Warren Wind’s Golf Book (1971) and Following Through (1985). The United States Golf Association’s annual book award is named in his honor, and in 2008 he was posthumously inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. According to his friend Ben Crenshaw, “every time you read Herbert Warren Wind, you get a history lesson, a golf lesson, and a life lesson.”  

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