Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses - Paperback
by Jimmie James
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781668005989ISBN-10:1668005980UPC:9781668005989Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Sports, GolfSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCBJHT6K66
Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses
A "wonderful story of passion, commitment, resilience, and determination," (Paul Gasol, former NBA All-Star) about one man's quest to become the first person to play each of America's 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the successful executive he became. When he set out to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781668005989ISBN-10:1668005980UPC:9781668005989Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Sports, GolfSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCBJHT6K66
Born in 1959 to a single mother of eight in Jim Crow-era Texas, Jimmie James emerged from humble beginnings, growing up in a shack without electricity or plumbing. He was the first in his family not only to graduate from high school but also to pursue and earn a college degree. He graduated from Prairie View A&M University at the top of his engineering class. In his thirty-three-year career...
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