Tour '72: Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, and Trevino: The Story of One Great Seaso

By Michael D'Antonio and Ana Huang

Book Overview

In the tradition of David Halberstam's best-seller Summer of '49, Tour '72 brings to life the events, personalities and rivalries that made 1972 one of the most important years in modern golf. Armed with a reporter's perspective and a passionate golfer's love of the game, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist D'Antonio offers a behind-the-scenes portrait of this extraordinary time, detailing the most exciting moments when four of the world's greatest players of all-time, Nicklaus, Palmer, Player and Trevino, competed together at the height of their powers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786867167
• ISBN13: 9780786867165
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Boys of Summer Play Golf

What Roger Kahn did for the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers of the mid-1950s, Michael D'Antonio does for the heros and anti-heros of the 1972 PGA tour, a year as important in golf history as the days of Jackie Robinson were to the Dodgers.Today, with the game, or at least media attention on the game, dominated by a single player, it's hard to imagine that there was a Tour of '72, dominated by Nicklaus, Palmer, Player and Trevino - all competing in a single season.A writer who can find the excitement in any subject, from the sex life of mosquitos to the intricacies of a good backswing, D'Antonio's own passion for golf comes shinning through in the Tour '72 just as it did in his earlier Tin Cup Dreams.Anyone who cares about the game of golf and the game's legendary players will want to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon with Tour '72 - and will re-read this gem again and again.