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Duel in the Sun: Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus in the Battle of Turnberry (Paperback)

by Michael Corcoran (Author)
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  • Paperback: 215 pages
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; 1st Nebraska Paperback Ed edition (30 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0803264518
  • ISBN-13: 978-0803264519
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 303,240 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Through interviews with competitors, caddies and spectators, Corcoran describes in vivid detail what turns out to be one of the game's most memorable confrontations."--New York Daily News "A perfect golf time machine... The memories of golfers and caddies that are woven into the retelling make for a great read."--USA Today "The match makes for good theater on its own, but under Corcoran's hand it becomes an epic tale borne from golf's historic roots."--Golf World "A rare book that delivers more than the title promises ... even for those who recall the event in detail, this book will prove entertaining and enlightening."--Library Journal


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The British Open, or the Open Championship as it's known outside the United States, is believed to be the most challenging tournament in professional golf. There was no greater Open than in 1977 at Turnberry on Scotland's southwest coast, when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus battled over the last thirty-six holes with Watson winning with a closing birdie. Drawing on interviews with participants, caddies, journalists, and spectators, Michael Corcoran brings the drama of this historic Open Championship to vivid life. Along with a revealing retelling of the '77 Open, Corcoran delivers an evocative historical overview of the Open and the tradition it represents. Michael Corcoran is deputy editor of "Stuff magazine". He is author of several books, including "How to Break 90: An Easy Approach for Breaking Golf's Toughest Scoring Barrier" and "The Golf Dictionary: A Guide to the Language and Lingo of the Game".

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4.0 out of 5 stars Turnberry 1977, 2 May 2003
This review is from: Duel in the Sun: Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus in the Battle of Turnberry (Maintream Sport) (Paperback)
A worthwhile read, a little too much time spent on building up the story, but it did bring back memories of a sun baked Turnberry and the greatest duel in golf for many years. I can not say that it has added to my knowledge of the players or of the event, but as the memory of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson fade it would be a valuable historical piece.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Adventures of Tom "Huck Finn" Watson, 2 Aug 2009
By P. Pickup "Rince_Ri" (Huddersfield, England) - See all my reviews
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If you are expecting a microcosm of the awe-inspiring pulsating final two rounds fought out mano a mano at The Open at Turnberry in the summer of 1977, this is not it. Nor even a potted history of the final four rounds, although it does recount shot by shot the events as they unfolded on that epic day.
Alas, though, we do not even get to Turnberry until page 109, more than half-way through. Talk about setting the scene! Up to that point Corcoran gives us an adequate history of golf, The Open, The Majors and some of its greatest champions. This is of interest to the uninitiated, but too much of it is old ground for the golf aficionado. The Duel in the Sun was on another level; the fact that what happened was played out on the canvas of a golf tournament is incidental. The subject cries out for a Hemingway, a Ring Lardner, a Norman Mailer! As Hubert Green, winner of the 1977 US Open, famously observed: "I won the golf tournament. I don't know what game those two other guys were playing." The Duel in the Sun should have been an attempt to answer that.
Corcoran rarely focuses upon the psyche, the thoughts, the emotions of his subjects, Huck Finn and the Golden Bear; instead he brings into play the thoughts and observations of myriad peripheral characters in the drama. Although these are not without humour. Ivor Robson whose first day as First Tee Announcer for The Open was at Carnoustie in 1975 confides: "only the laundry maid knows how nervous I was"!
He also observes vis-a-vis 47 year old Ben Hogan in a position to win an unprecedented fifth US Open in 1960: "It is the cruelest truth in golf that while a great player can strike the ball fully and expertly well into his later years as a competitor, his aging nerves betray him with the least complicated of all shots in the game, the putt." Plus ca change, eh Tom?

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