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Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf
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Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf Paperback - 2009

by Cook, Kevin

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Veteran golf journalist Cook offers a compelling look inside the high-pressure creation of the new breed of superstar golfers. 8-page b&w photo insert.

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  • Title Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf
  • Author Cook, Kevin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Avery
  • Date 2009-07-07
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1592404693_used
  • ISBN 9781592404698 / 1592404693
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.352

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Summary

An inside look at the creation of the new breed of superstar golfers

Golf keeps looking for the next phenom who will take over the game the way Tiger Woods did in the mid-nineties. But in all likelihood this young golfer will not be discovered but created in a gated three-hundred-acre complex in Florida called the David Leadbetter Golf Academy. Here exists a fierce training ground, where ultra-high-tech cameras provide cutting-edge swing analysis and young players spend almost every waking hour on the driving range.

In Driven, award-winning journalist Kevin Cook shows how the game has evolved from a sport of paunchy men to one populated with muscular youngsters blasting tape-measure drives. A vivid snapshot of a rapidly changing game, Driven is a riveting look at the making of golf 's next generation.

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"Stalag Leadbetter sounds like the golf-learning inferno these kids all need-to get away from their imperious parents. Driven is not a bedtime story, but it's a must read!"
-Gary McCord, PGA Tour pro, bestselling author, and CBS golf commentator

About the author

The former editor-in-chief of Golf Magazine, Kevin Cook has written for Sports Illustrated, GQ, Playboy, Details, Men's Journal, Men's Health, Portfolio, and many other magazines, and has often served as a talking head on ESPN and CNN. His first book, Tommy's Honor, won the USGA's Herbert Warren Wind Book Award as the Best Golf Book of 2007, made Sports Illustrated's 2007 Books of the Year list, and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in the UK.