{"product_id":"tiptoeing-through-hell-playing-the-us-open-on-golfs-most-treacherous-courses-9780060934255","title":"Tiptoeing Through Hell: Playing the U.S. Open on Golf's Most Treacherous Courses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Veteran golf writer John Strege gives you the history and takes you behind the scenes of the US Open, considered the most difficult tournament in golf.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The US Open Golf tournament, one of the four 'Majors' together with The Masters, The British Open, and the PGA, is widely considered the most difficult of the four tournaments. Each year the tournament is played on a different course. Fifty years ago the US Golf Association, whose tournament this is, decided the condition of the courses had to be toughened. The fairways on the designated course narrowed, the rough was allowed to grow tall and the greens were mowed close and rolled frequently, producing surfaces whose slickness the pros have compared to billiard tables.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eTiptoeing Through Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, John Strege has chronicled the last 50 years of the tournament when these punitive conditions have held sway. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Strege\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.34w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060934255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrege, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Strege\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of five books, including \u003cem\u003eWhen War Played Through\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the United States Golf Association's Herbert Warren Wind Book Award in 2005, and the bestselling \u003cem\u003eTiger: A Biography of Tiger Woods\u003c\/em\u003e. He has covered golf for more than thirty years, and now writers for \u003cem\u003eGolf Digest\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Marlene, and daughter, Hannah, in San Diego, California. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39921809326195,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_bb3e7bcb-6fe1-4c8f-9797-8e354037fbf6.jpg?v=1647351930","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/tiptoeing-through-hell-playing-the-us-open-on-golfs-most-treacherous-courses-9780060934255","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}