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| Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major | 
 enlarge | Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
List Price: $15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 6847
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 031601432X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780316014328
ASIN: 031601432X
Publication Date: June 5, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Rare Book Worth 5 Stars September 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am no avid golfer but have been attracted to the Nationwide tour and Q school because even I knew there is so much more at stake there than worrying about who falls out of the PGA's top 10. This book has honest drama on every page. I didn't realize how many phases Q school had and that it is even more of a gauntlet than I had imagined. As you watch old pros who have tasted glory and money fall out and young guns move up or move out you really get into the tense mood that never lets up for the players trying for the magic PGA card. The author is a great writer and has done another exceptional job. Even if your not a golfer you'll enjoy the human stories and competition.
 Tale From Q School August 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
For golf fans, this book is a quadruple bogey...like a good hole, the concept was a good one but very poorly executed. Feinstein repeats himself constantly - where was the editor? The stories that he builds up to be so entertaining are flat out boring. Send this one back to writing school.
 Feinstein Fatigue August 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read many of Feinstein's previous works and enjoyed some of them immensely. A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled were outstanding. His last two books, however, have been disappointing.
Perhaps his style is such that over time it begins to wear and grate on you. I could swear that he wrote a similar book on Q school some years ago. Much of the story seems very familiar, though with different names. The old 40 something year old pro trying for one last shot. The former major winner relegated to Q school. The hot young junior golfer suddenly struggling to make the show. I've heard it before and to make matters worse, Feinstein seems to repeat himself throughout the book. He tells a story in the foreward and then repeats it in the body of the book, perhaps to beef up a work that can easily be read in one sitting.
If you watch the television special on Q school each year, you get the same story with video. Hold out for the TV special.
Must for any level golfer August 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I could'nt put this on down. Having read A Good Walk Spoiled some time ago I had forgotten how well John covers the topics he writes on. The Q school has got to be one of the hardest hustles there is and John as usual makes you feel as if you are there too if only as a spectator. Which for me would be plenty. I play alot of golf and keeping your mind in it helps an awful lot. I actually played better. I look foward to re-reading Good Walk and buying Open and Caddie for Life. Thank You.
As appealing as a triple bogey July 21, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As an avid golfer and a constant reader, I generally find most golf books quite entertaining (example "First Off the Tee". This book was as exciting as watching paint dry. The stories of the golfers trying to get a tour card are too similiar and within 20 pages more or less all seem about the same. I do not recommend this book to even the most avid golfer, the author has made our sport about as interesting as oh say curling.
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