Sheft: "The Longest Shot" A Classic
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Bill Sheft reviews three new golf books, including two on the 1955 U.S. Open and comes away loving Neil Sagebiel's "The Longest Shot" and not caring for Al Barkow's book on the same topic. (I'll be posting a Q&A with Neil later this week.)
“The Longest Shot” is the first book from Neil Sagebiel, the founder and editor of Armchair Golf Blog, and he makes a strong bid to create shelf space for himself alongside 21st-century golf literati like John Feinstein, Mark Frost and Don Van Natta Jr. Sagebiel takes his time, working leisurely as golf demands, but does a thorough job. And his narrative pace during the last hour of that final round, as he bounces back and forth between Hogan in the locker room and Fleck on the course, may have a rhythm more suited to a tennis rally, but here it aces.
