Tin Cup Dreams: A Long Shot Makes it on the PGA Tour

By Michael D'Antonio

Book Overview

Now available in paperback, Tin Cup Dreams is the remarkable odyssey of self-taught golfer Esteban Toledo, a former boxer who overcame poverty and the wrong side of the tracks to make it through Q School and a make-or-break season on the PGA Tour. With uncommon grit and determination, Toledo finally triumphs after a 12 year quest that took him to the depths of despair.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives a rare behind-the-scenes look at the PGA Tour while keeping readers on the edge of their seats with his chronicle of Toledo's struggles. Traditionally, golf was a dreamer's path to glory. Tin Cup Dreams shows that it still is.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786886471
• ISBN13: 9780786886470
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 17 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Breathtaking...

This book was simply sensational! Anyone who has ever touched a golf club should read this book, because it makes anyone a believer that the "impossible" can happen. I could not put this heartwarming book down after reading page after page of Esteban's trials and turmoils on his path to greatness on the PGA Tour. What a great book for anyone who's been told that they cannot do something. Esteban Toledo silenced all his critics and proved that he could!

Couldn't put it down.

Being an obsessed golfer, I really enjoyed the "play-by-play" and the "insider" information the story provides. It is generally very well written (there were numerous typo's - poor editing). I just didn't want to put it down. It was like I was experiencing it with him.It's a great success story, one that anyone will enjoy.

surprisingly captivating for a non-golfer

When this book was given to me by a friend I said, " Golf, You have to be kidding." My friend told me to give it a chance and loe and behold, by the middle of chapter one, I was hooked. This beautiful book is about life, I felt as if the author was in my den, reading this book to me personally. Mr. D'Antonio is a major talent and I intend to read his other works, Bravo!

A Book For The Golfer's Golfer And The Writer's Reader

In "Tin Cup Dreams" Michael D'Antonio combines the heart of a life-long duffer with the observational and prose skills of a John McPhee. I think golf is perhaps the single most boring human activity - after sleeping - but I couldn't put down my copy of Tin Cup Dreams until I finished the last page.

Dreams Do Come True

Michael D'antonio best yet. Makes you feel as if you where there. This is about people helping people. What a great book. Thanks Michael, this has movie all over it.