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567: A Thanksgiving Feast of the Greatest Golf Book Ever! THE MATCH with author Mark Frost

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

567: In our previous episode, actor Malcolm McDowell talked about his favorite golf book ever, which so happens to be mine too. “THE MATCH: The Day The Game of Golf Changed Forever” by Mark Frost was published in 2008, but is a great read of nonfiction and in today’s 24 hour news cycle, an unbelievable story that was never told before this book. The audio book and book are both available at Amazon and here’s the write up to the story:   The year: 1956. Four decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-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. Lowery 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 played--comes to life with powerful, emotional impact and edge-of-your-seat suspense.”  This interview was originally published in 2008. Happy Thanksgiving!For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Golf Smarter, number 567, published on November 22, 2016.

0:07.1

A Thanksgiving feast on the greatest golf book ever.

0:11.7

The Match with author Mark Frost.

0:13.9

This is Golf Smarter.

0:16.6

Sharing tips and insights to lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

0:22.0

To hear the full interview and access hundreds of Golf Smarter episodes, sign up for premium access at gulfsmarter.

0:30.4

com.

0:32.2

Here's your host, Fred Green.

0:35.1

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Mark.

0:38.6

Thank you.

0:39.3

Nice to be with you.

0:40.3

Thanks so much.

0:47.6

This book, The Match, the day the game of golf changed forever, is fabulous.

0:48.8

Congratulations.

0:49.6

Thank you.

0:51.0

I'm really glad you're enjoying it. First thing, if this wasn't covered by anybody if the press

0:54.8

wasn't there and it was a secret among a bunch of people how'd you get the

0:59.6

photograph for the cover I actually used the time machine for that I was able to

1:06.2

know I I am I was able to find a photograph taken from the actual tournament uh... the

1:12.3

big crosbie clam bake uh... a day later

1:15.6

of the first tea at cypress so it's not actually a photograph of the match itself

1:21.3

okay i was the closest we could approximate

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