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The Magnificent Masters: Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, Tom Weiskopf, and the 1975 Cliffhanger at Augusta

The Magnificent Masters: Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, Tom Weiskopf, and the 1975 Cliffhanger at Augusta


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About the Book

The 1975 Masters Tournament always seemed destined for the record books. A veritable Hall of Fame list of competitors had gathered that spring in Augusta, Georgia, for the game's most famous event, including Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Hale Irwin, Billy Casper, and Sam Snead. The lead-up had been dominated by Lee Elder, the first black golfer ever invited to the exclusive club's tourney. But by the weekend, the tournament turned into a showdown between the three heavyweights of the time: Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, and Tom Weiskopf. Never before had golf's top three players of the moment summoned the best golf of their lives in the same major championship. Their back-and-forth battle would rivet the sporting world and dramatically culminate in one of the greatest finishes in golf history.In The Magnificent Masters , Gil Capps, a twenty-two-year veteran of the golf industry with NBC Sports and Golf Channel, recaptures hole-by-hole the thrilling drama of this singular event during golf's golden era, from the media-crazed build-up and intertwined careers of the three combatants to the tournament's final dramatic putts that would change the game of golf forever.

About the Author :
Gil Capps is an Emmy award-winning associate producer on NBC Sports golf telecasts and managing editor at Golf Channel. He has spent his entire working career in golf media, having founded a regional golf magazine right out of Davidson College and written extensively about the game before jumping into television. Capps has worked on-site at more than 400 tournaments around the world,most spent sitting in NBC's main tower providing editorial direction to its broadcasts and announcers such as Johnny Miller, Dan Hicks, and Dick Enberg. Since 2012, he has led the creation of Golf Channel's Editorial Research Unit, which he oversees. A native of North Carolina, Capps now resides with his family in Winter Park, Florida.GilCapps.com

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Advance praise for The Magnificent Masters "When so many of us who've come to be accepted as expert in matters concerning golf need answers and counsel, we call on Gil... The Magnificent Masters is an absolute reflection of a man who not only has the deepest understanding of the significance of that stunning 1975 tournament, but the perspective to tell the story in a way that makes us all understand, too."--Jimmy Roberts, NBC Sports, host of Golf Channel's In Play with Jimmy Roberts, and author of Breaking the Slump "In the world of details, Gil Capps is golf's strongest man, and those strengths make The Magnificent Masters as potent for the reader today as they were for the viewer in 1975."--Brandel Chamblee, Golf Channel analyst and former PGA Tour winner and Masters participant "For many of those not old enough to remember the 1975 Masters, Gil Capps helps us understand why many believe this was the greatest golf tournament of all time. Beautifully researched and presented, The Magnificent Masters reveals why this was a transformative week for the epic springtime tournament we never tire of reading about, and in many ways for the sport of golf. A must-read for any fan of the Masters and golf."--Geoff Shackelford, geoffshackelford.com, GolfWorld contributing writer and Golf Digest contributing editor "Gil Capps is the best golf researcher in the game. He takes that attention to detail in his reporting to craft a classic on a classic, the '75 Masters."--Tim Rosaforte, senior writer for GolfWorld and Golf Digest and Golf Channel contributor "Gil Capps is the real brains behind not just the key stats we've shared with our TV audience but more importantly much of the perspective. And now everyone is able to get the full and unparalleled 'Capps treatment' on one of the greatest golf tournaments ever played. Gil's signature attention to detail springs the '75 Masters back to life like never before...or just like you're sitting next to him in the TV tower watching it all unfold."--Dan Hicks, NBC Sports golf anchor Booklist Starred Review, 4/1/14 "There have been several similar tournament histories written over the last decade or so--beginning with Mark Frost's The Greatest Game Ever Played (2002), about Francis Ouimet's unlikely triumph at the 1913 U.S. Open--but Capp's recounting of perhaps the most memorable Masters ever stands shoulder to shoulder with all of them." Examiner.com, 3/19/14 "[Capps] fills that gap in the Masters canon...The book picks up where contemporary accounts of the 1975 Masters leave off, filling out the full story of a significant week in the now-eighty-year-long saga of the Masters that had not previously been fully chronicled. In taking on this task, and bringing it to completion in such a satisfactory manner, Gil Capps has made a notable contribution to the chronicles of golf history, and his book should be part of every serious--and even not-so-serious--golf fan's library." Golf Digest, May 2014 "Stir[s] up the nostalgic charm of one of the greatest Masters ever." GolfDigest.com, 4/7/2014 "Plenty will be written a year from now about the 1975 Masters when the 40th anniversary arguably the most dramatic edition of the tournament rolls around. Any story, though, will struggle to improve on Gil Capps' work in his recently released book on the subject. The Magnificent Masters) vividly recreates the events of that week at Augusta National Golf Club... Amplifying the rich play-by-play of the three practice round and four days of competition is the interesting character study he offers about the three protagonists, putting into context the importance of the tournament at the time and the impact the outcome would have on each of their careers."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780306820410
  • Publisher: Hachette Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Sub Title: Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, Tom Weiskopf, and the 1975 Cliffhanger at Augusta
  • ISBN-10: 0306820412
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 155 mm


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