02572cam a2200361 a 4500 chasingdreammidl00hurt CaSfIA 20230525155008.0 cr|||| 970129s1997 nyu 000 0 eng 97002386 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP TJX CaSfIA 0380973073 9780380973071 (OCoLC)36315910 n-us--- GV981 .H87 1997 796.352/0973 21 Hurt, Harry. Chasing the dream : [electronic resource] a mid-life quest for fame and fortune on the pro golf circuit / Harry Hurt III. 1st ed. New York : Avon Books, c1997. viii, 279 p. ; 22 cm. When he was eighteen, Harry seemed to have a golden pro career ahead of him. In 1970, he was the number one player on the Harvard freshman team - until he quit, disgusted with a sport that clung to an elitist, "country club" past in an era of great social and political change. Over the next quarter century, he played little more than eighteen holes a year. But in 1995, he experienced again the sheer, exhilarating terror of competitive play. Harry Hurt had decided to take. one last shot at glory. He was going to reconstruct his game and finally make it to the PGA Tour. Spanning the nation's most diverse and treacherous courses - from Long Island's blue-collar Barcelona Neck to Doral's "Blue Monster" in Florida - Harry's story includes a stellar cast of supporting characters: PGA Tour stars Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Tiger Woods and Bruce Lietzke; the colorful tennis great Ivan Lendl, pursuing a second stint in the spotlight. as a golf pro; exciting up-and-comers such as PGA Tour rookie Shane Bertsch. Along the way, Harry takes lessons from legendary gurus such as the brothers Butch and Dick Harmon and sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella. He meets a host of "no namers," has-beens and never-weres driven by the same glorious obsession that has captured him. And by the time he nails his dramatic first pro victory, Harry has discovered exactly what all golfers need inside to succeed. Golf United States. http://www.archive.org/details/chasingdreammidl00hurt Free eBook from the Internet Archive http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL657273M Additional information and access via Open Library YDXCP 1379676 NZ1 2797065 AU@ 000013038410 0 0 0 0 Project Gutenberg CSPC CSPC 2023-05-25 0 GV981 .H87 1997 2023-05-25 00:00:00 2023-05-25 EBK 20933 20933