Review for Golf's Greatest Championship: The 1960 U.S. Open : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
Golf's Greatest Championship: The 1960 U.S. Open info
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]
[Read by Tom Parker (aka Grover Gardner)]
The 1960 U.S. Open Golf Championship played at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado, remains perhaps the most dramatic, competitive, and passionate of all Open championships. In 1960, the Young Lions of the game were eager to reach the top tier occupied by venerable players such as Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. In this Open, only a single stroke separated the three leaders--Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, and a young but talented amateur named Jack Nicklaus--on the final two holes. The stunning conclusion would prove a watershed in the lives of all three players and in the game itself.
Golf's Greatest Championship recounts that fateful Open from the 8:00 a.m. first-round tee-off to the finish, bringing alive a near-mythic moment in modern golf. Along for the journey are some of the greatest players of the day, including Sam Snead, Gary Player, Ken Venturi, Tommy Bolt, Billy Casper, J
