

Paper Tiger
An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros
Author: Tom Coyne
Narrator: Kyle Tait
Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/21/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, Golf, Sports Biography
Synopsis
Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed. Overweight and burdened by a 14 handicap, he decided to find out for himself what it takes to play like a pro.
Charting his journey—which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttie—Paper Tiger takes listeners from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tour, where forty-mile-per-hour winds and a driving rain scare off his Japanese partners. With each chapter, he tracks his weight alongside his handicap, pursuing his dream with a reckless abandon that comes to involve hardcore diets, pricey technology, and even psychologists. With echoes of Dead Solid Perfect and Who's Your Caddy? Tom brings his uniquely edgy, deeply human perspective to a game that can simultaneously bring out the best and the worst in everyone who tries to master it.