Author Description

The Great White Shark, Greg Norman, can create more drama with a single shot than most golfers can in a career. Playing all out - "Attack life" and "No fear" are his mottoes - he has captured the fascinated gaze of golf people everywhere, from the fans who flock to the course in "Sharkwear" and send television ratings soaring whenever he is in contention, to his fellow pros who - whether they admit it or not - measure their swings, their victories, and their endorsements against his. All this for a golfer whose hair's-breadth losses in major tournaments are as well known as, and even more talked about than, his two British Open championships and his remarkable record of wins around the world. Taking Norman as its focus, this book sets out to discover what really separates the great golfer from the also-rans. It shows us Norman and his peers - Nick Price, Davis Love III, Peter Jacobsen, John Daly, and rising star Brad Faxon, among many others - as they compete in the daily grind of the professional tour and the white-hot tension of major tournaments. It puts us fully into the world of the Tour, with all the sights and sounds that the television cameras and microphones never catch: the by-play in a pro-am, the elaborate pecking order of star players and journeymen, the scalpers' scene at the Masters, the pros' ribbing on the driving range and the practice putting green, the off-duty talk in the traveling caddy kitchen, and much more.