American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf-Fast Shipping

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With compellingdetail and pure passion, James Dodson recounts the singular brilliance ofthree golf titans and how they saved the professional tour and created thegame as we know it today.

During the Depression golf was in crisis. As a spectator sport it was onthe verge of extinction. This was the unhappy prospect facing Sam Snead,Byron Nelson, and Ben Hogan –two dirt-poor boys from Texas and another fromVirginia, who had dedicated themselves to the sport. But then lightningstruck, and from the late thirties into the fifties these three men were sothoroughly dominant that they transformed both how the game was played andhow society regarded it. Paving the way for the subsequent popularity ofplayers from Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods, they were, and will always remain,a triumvirate for the ages.