The Match, Mark Frost
The Match, Mark Frost
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The Match
The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever

Author: Mark Frost

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/26/2010


Synopsis

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.

The year: 1956. Decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the tenyear-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.

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 playedcomes to life with powerful, emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

About Mark Frost

Mark Frost is an American novelist, screenwriter, director and film producer, best known as a writer for the television series Hill Street Blues and as the co-creator of the television series Twin Peaks.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on April 09, 2024

Prior to reading The Match, many years earlier I read and watched the movie The Greatest Game Ever Played. Both are written phenomenally well by Mark Frost. The match is about a non-publicized match between two amateur golfers, Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, and two hugely successful golf professionals......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on October 02, 2017

This book isn’t exactly about one game of golf, not that it wouldn’t have been great if that were all it did. This book tells the history of golf from the American perspective during a time that the game changed drastically. At some points I forgot I was reading nonfiction, and that is a compliment.......more

Goodreads review by Jack on July 27, 2020

Great story of a match between professional golfers and their amateur counterparts in an era where this was a big distinction. But the better part of the book is the history and lore around the 4 players (and some fans) that took part. Must read for any golfer! Only knock on the book - not sure what......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on January 11, 2025

Very fitting read in today’s golf landscape focused more and more on the economics and less on the sporting side of the game.......more

Goodreads review by Alex on December 28, 2023

As a golf junkie and an amateur golf historian this book provided awesome insight into the glamorous (or not so much) world of early competitive golf. Would recommend to any golf nerd and was a great entertaining read......more