cover image Letters to a Young Golfer

Letters to a Young Golfer

Bob Duval. Basic Books, $26 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-465-01738-6

Both the father and the son of pro golfers, and a golf instructor and Senior PGA pro in his own right, Bob Duval shares the wisdom he's accumulated from years on the course in Letters to a Young Golfer. The book takes the form of actual letters to his son, David a PGA celebrity and 2001 British Open champion and to other friends and family members. The subject on the table is usually golf Duval muses about strategies and looks back on his own career and encounters with PGA luminaries but through the letters a more intimate history of the family emerges, including the father and son's long estrangement, sparked by the death of David's older brother. (May)