Lectures tagged "golf"

Walking with Friends: An Inspirational Year on the PGA Tour
D. J. Gregory
July 14, 2009
00:56:26
D.J. Gregory, a 30-year-old with cerebral palsy, describes his year of traveling with the PGA tour and walking every golf course. This event is hosted by the Atlanta Fulton Public Library. D.J. Gregory compares walking 18 holes of golf to running a 10K with sandbags tied around his waist.
Tribute to John Updike
Tribute to John Updike
Nicholson Baker
June 1, 2009
01:01:50
Authors Nicholson Baker, Samuel Shem (pen-name of Dr. Stephen Bergman), and Anne Bernays; editor and journalist Charles McGrath; critic and scholar William Pritchard; and family members paid tribute to author John Updike, who passed away on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76.
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Carl Hiaasen: The Downhill Lie
Carl Hiaasen
May 12, 2008
01:09:23
Carl Hiaasen discusses his new book, The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport. It is a book about a lifelong love/hate relationship with golf, which comically addresses how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake and which club is best for killing rats.
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Golf Pros: Literature on the Links
Todd Sentell
June 25, 2007
00:56:25
Golf writer Todd Sentell's reads from his new novel, Toonamint of Champions, an insider's spoof on the manners and mores at America's most prestigious club, the Augusta National, home of the Masters.