Norwich Union - Car Insurance The Fine Green Line: My Year of Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours Author: John Paul Newport Hardcover Usually ships in 24 hours Delivery is subject to warehouse availability. Shipping delays may occur if we receive more orders than stock. Our Price: $36.00 Our Sale Price: $6.99 Savings: $29.01 (81%) Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) Dimensions: 336 Pages, 5.5 x 9.25 in | ISBN: 0767901169 Published: March 2000 | Published by Broadway Books chapters.indigo Review Playing golf in front of thousands of fans in beautiful weather is a great way to make a living. For many professional golfers, this dream job didn’t come easy. In The Fine Green Line: My Year of Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours , John Paul Newport gives readers an inside look at the Nike Tour, the Hooters Tour and other lesser-known tours that allow golfers to qualify for the PGA Tour. Newport describes the obsessive golf addicts chasing fortune and fame in a humorous and observant style. From the Publisher What happens when a man obsessed with golf leaves home for a year to pursue his dream? This is the story of that journey. One day when John Paul Newport was in his mid-thirties, he attended a corporate outing at a golf course. He had hacked around on the fairways for a couple of summers as a kid, but had always found other sports, especially football, more compelling. Golf was a game he had played only a handful of times in the past twenty years. But that day on the course he more or less accidentally nailed a drive more than 300 yards. The feeling he had as he watched the ball soar was incredible—grace, power, and purity combined. Much to his surprise, he was hooked. Within a month he had bought a set of clubs—the first he’d ever owned—and discovered he had a knack for the game. With practice, his scores improved steadily, until one day two years later, he miraculously shot a three-under-par 69. This amazing experience triggered all sorts of questions in his mind: How was such a round possible? Having shot 69 once, what prevented him from shooting 69 every time? In golf, as elsewhere in life, why is one so consistently incapable of fulfilling one’s clearly established potential? Projecting into the world of professional golf, he wondered what was it that allowed some pros to stay at the top of the PGA Tour golf rankings year after year while others with seemingly just as much talent got stuck in the bush leagues? In pursuit of some answers, John Paul Newport spent a year playing in the bush leagues himself, the dark, comic underbelly of professional golf. This is a world in which even highly talented players sometimes live out of their cars, sneak food from country clubs, and gamble away their meager earnings in an attempt to stay afloat. But it is also the world many top pros—including John Daly, Paul Azinger, and Tom Lehman—first had to conquer before becoming the stars they did. Newport’s year culminated in a bold, some might say ill-advised effort to make it through the PGA Tour’s infamous Q School. Traveling and competing throughout Florida, the Northeast, the Dakotas, and California, refining his game and consulting numerous "head coaches" and psychologists, Newport realized his number one goal was to solve the mystery of what he calls the Fine Green Line—that infinitely subtle yet critical difference that separates golf’s top players from their nearest pursuers, but that also applies to golfers all up and down the ability spectrum. He also struggled to find meaning in the game that had become his obsession. As he questioned the people he encountered—from Eastern consciousness guru Michael Murphy to successful young Tour players like Kevin Sutherland—about practicing better golf, Newport realized that the answers he was given were also about practicing better life. A compelling personal journey that captures many of the fears, frustrations, and elations of midlife, both on and off the course, The Fine Green Line is also a rich, honest, rollicking narrative set in a golf world few people know. It will appeal to anyone either afflicted or confounded by golf’s mysterious tug. About the Author John Paul Newport is a contributing editor for Maximum Golf and has also written for Men’s Journal, Sports Illustrated, Golf, Golf Digest, Fortune, and numerous other magazines. He lives with his wife and daughter in Nyack, New York. Review Quotes My infatuation with golf was baffling, even to me. Almost none of my friends in New York played. Most, in fact, still viewed the game as a shameful, bourgeois absurdity. But I was forever dreaming about my next fix. Part of its appeal no doubt had to do with the personal troubles I was going through at the time. Golf was a refuge. At home and at the office I hardly knew which end was up, but on the golf course the rules were clear. Order prevailed. Plus you had the tweeting birds and the gentle breezes and the bright green grass everywhere--the same elements that make mental asylums such pleasant places to spend time. In addition to all that, I was steadily getting better, which was good for my ego. But this led to delusions. The primary cause of golf’s maddening addiction, I soon discovered, is that every golfer knows for a fact that he or she is actually much, much better than his scores would indicate. --from The Fine Green Line Reader Reviews Average Reader Review: Number of Reviews: 2 1. Awesome Reviewer: Robert Ford from Nepean, ON (fordmcgregor@home.com) Date: 12/27/2000 1:54:26 PM This book is awesome - it is a must read for any "want-to-be" golf pro. The mini-tours are attainable for most of us, something I never would have thought. The story was great - and I even picked up a few great swing tips along the way. 2. The Fine Green Line Reviewer: Ken Steven from Thornhill Date: 11/29/2000 5:33:52 PM There is something therapeutic in reading about John Paul Newport's struggles to overcome feelings of frustration and failure on his year-long journey towards turning pro and getting through the first round of Q-school. Not only are his golf exploits entertaining, they provide an insight about the difficulty of the game that I have never seen expressed before. If you have ever wondered why your game doesn't seem to improve much, despite hours of lessons and practice, The Fine Green Line is a must read. 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