{"product_id":"paper-tiger-an-obsessed-golfers-quest-to-play-with-the-pros-9781592402991","title":"Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double.\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eCharting his journey, which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttie--\u003ci\u003ePaper Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers 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, even psychologists. With echoes of \u003ci\u003eDead Solid Perfect\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWho's Your Caddy?\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Coyne is the author of the novel \u003cb\u003eA Gentleman's Game\u003c\/b\u003e and cowriter of the screenplay for the novel's film version, which starred Dylan Baker and Gary Sinise. He is a contributor to \u003cb\u003eGolf Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e and teaches creative writing at St. Joseph's University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Avery Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719200018706,"sku":"9781592402991","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b3712dc4-6e76-4aed-8b47-44490547199b.jpg?v=1734662124","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paper-tiger-an-obsessed-golfers-quest-to-play-with-the-pros-9781592402991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}