Summary of Tom Coyne's Paper Tiger

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was in a group with three golfers who took turns chopping away at my ego. I didn’t argue with them, and instead just smiled and allowed them to have fun because with three against one, self-defense sounds the same as whining.
#2 I was a spoiled brat, and I took up golf at nine years old. I was too young to fully appreciate the beauty and brilliance of my summer routine, which was to spend every afternoon telling my father the same story: I wanted to get out, but there weren’t any loops.
#3 Tiger Woods was born just a year after I did, and he quickly became the king of golf. I, on the other hand, was not very good at golf, and it took me five minutes at Notre Dame’s golf tryouts to realize that there was so much good golf out there.
#4 I was a freshman at Notre Dame, and I was nervous about trying out for the golf team. I was two strokes better than par, and the head coach started following my group as we made the turn. My playing partner started wondering aloud why I wasn’t on scholarship. I didn’t have the golfing talent of Tiger Woods, but I still quit.

Sujets

• Sport
• Autres sports
• Golf
• Recreation
• Sports

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822532106
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Tom Coyne's Paper Tiger
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was in a group with three golfers who took turns chopping away at my ego. I didn’t argue with them, and instead just smiled and allowed them to have fun because with three against one, self-defense sounds the same as whining.

#2

I was a spoiled brat, and I took up golf at nine years old. I was too young to fully appreciate the beauty and brilliance of my summer routine, which was to spend every afternoon telling my father the same story: I wanted to get out, but there weren’t any loops.

#3

Tiger Woods was born just a year after I did, and he quickly became the king of golf. I, on the other hand, was not very good at golf, and it took me five minutes at Notre Dame’s golf tryouts to realize that there was so much good golf out there.

#4

I was a freshman at Notre Dame, and I was nervous about trying out for the golf team. I was two strokes better than par, and the head coach started following my group as we made the turn. My playing partner started wondering aloud why I wasn’t on scholarship. I didn’t have the golfing talent of Tiger Woods, but I still quit.

#5

I had become a golf outing connoisseur, versed in each particular tournament’s prize history. I was an in-demand free agent because, firstly, I could still play a little bit. And as an author of discarded novels and unfinished screenplays, my availability was outstanding.

#6

The difference between D. Hill and P. Mahoon is a little bit of time and a little bit of money and a little bit of luck.

#7

I have missed sunrise, but I head directly to the public driving range, and I beat balls off the mats until I can’t feel my fingers, until I can't stand up straight. I am sore in an adult sort of way, but I feel younger.

#8

I had spent the last summer building up my calluses at the driving range, and I had $35,000 in the bank. I had never before mixed technology into my golf game. I had purchased a camcorder and tripod, and I was closer to being a golfhead who got tingly over swing-planes and wristhinges.

#9

The mind-set of the writer and the tournament golfer is completely opposed to each other. The writer must think about and collect small details, while the tournament golfer must be simple, myopic, and fixated on one detail at a time.

#10

There is an inverse relationship between golf aesthetics and golf passion. It is in these average surroundings that you find the great men of this game. Take, for instance, the gentleman who few of the other entrants in the PGA Tour Qualifying School will know much about: Larry.

#11

Larry worked with a regular cache of students. There was gray-faced Bob, a Marlboro devotee built like a puff of smoke. He would hit a small bucket of three-woods every day, between the hours of one and two o’clock. Most of Bob’s golf balls ended up scattered around the front of his hitting bay within a ball scooper’s reach.

#12

I was ready to deal with the college kids and the club pros, but Larry. Larry can play. I was ready to leave for Florida, but I had to go to the birthday party of Allyson’s boss’s husband. I didn’t feel overly selfish.

#13

Surprise parties can be a little silly, but I have never felt as special as I did that night. I spent most of the evening being told I was the craziest, luckiest man on the planet.

#14

The sign above the green was decorated with a cartoon of two tropical islands. On one island, a redhead with a Howdy Doody grin was sitting in a beach chair, reading a book. On the other island was a small green island with a red flagstick planted in a black golf hole.

#15

I was excited to avoid flying when traveling, but I was also afraid of being alone in a strange place. Florida feels like a new chance for the rich and the bankrupt, the crazies and the crooks, the hopeful and the hopeless.

#16

I had a stroke of good fortune when I found a condo that was available for rent in the Florida town of Ponce de León. The condo had two bedrooms and two bathrooms, and ceilings that were high enough to swing a driver inside. The view off the back patio was amazing.

#17

I was brought to Spring Run at the Brooks, a community in Florida, to register as a member. It was unlike any other part of the world, but not in a bad way. It was perfect, repeated.

#18

I was excited about my six months solo, but I was also a little scared. I was excited to be tough and cool, but in reality, I was a baby. I was needy and sentimental.

#19

I spent my first week in Florida unpacking and introducing myself around the pro shop. The shop staff seemed amused by having someone their age hanging around the practice tee, but they were confused by the amount of time I was spending at the range.

#20

I spent five days hanging up inspirational quotes and clippings and swing videos above my mirrors, and I pasted a large wipe-erase calendar on the wall next to my desk. Tomorrow was circled in red marker.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The PGA Qualifying School is not a school, but it is a test that allows the top twenty-five players to graduate and move on to the next event. It is held at twelve different locations across the country during the last two weeks of October.

#2