The Match (Reprint) (Paperback) by Mark Frost
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> Frost, bestselling author of "The Greatest Game Ever Played," returns with the story of the match that turned the pastime of golf into a professional sport--when Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi played against Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson in the greatest private match ever played. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> <b>In 1956, a casual bet between two millionaires eventually pitted two of the greatest golfers of the era -- Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan -- against top amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi.</b> <p/> The year: 1956. Decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, Lowery has just made a bet with fellow millionaire George Coleman. Lowery claims that two of his employees, amateur golfers Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, cannot be beaten in a best-ball match, and challenges Coleman to bring any two golfers of his choice to the course at 10 a.m. the next day to settle the issue. Coleman accepts the challenge and shows up with his own power team: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with fourteen major championships between them. <p/> In Mark Frost's peerless hands, complete with the recollections of all the participants, the story of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day-legendarily known in golf circles as the greatest private match ever played-comes to life with powerful, emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense. <p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br> Frost captures an elusive magic in this improbable matchup and what it meant for those who played and witnessed it.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i> </br></br>The Match was a dream I never thought would come true. If I hadn't been there I wouldn't believe it myself, and if you know anything about sports or the game of golf, once you pick up this book you won't put it down. No one will ever see an event like this again. Fiction can't touch it.--<i><b>Ken Venturi</b></i> <p/><br></br><p><b> About The Author </b></p></br></br> <b>Mark Frost</b> is the author of the critically acclaimed <i>The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam</i>, and the bestselling <i>The List of 7, The 6 Messiahs</i>, and <i>Before I Wake</i>. He received a Writer's Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for his work as executive story editor on the acclaimed television series <i>Hill Street Blues</i>, and was the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC television series <i>Twin Peaks</i>. He lives in Los Angeles and upstate New York.
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