Making the Turn: A Year Inside the PGA Senior Tour

Beard was a success on the PGA Tour, scoring 11 tournament victories between 1963 and 1971 and coauthoring the book Pro about his 1969 season. Now he returns with an account of his 1991 season on the Senior Tour, giving details about what Sports Illustrated golf writer Garrity, using a felicitous phrase, calls ``life's back nine.'' Their book is less felicitous. If Beard is not the most self-aborbed person playing the links game, he must come close. We read about his perfectionism, his concern about his alcoholism (now apparently under control), his response to columns he wrote for Golf World magazine, his feelings about how he fared as a TV commentator, his pleasure at the changed attitude of children toward him, and so forth. (Aug.)