Breaking Eighty: A Journey Through The Nine Fairways Of Hell

The Story

Breaking Eighty is not just another book about how to play golf. It's a sharp-eyed, hilarious, and memorable account of how to learn to play golf. It is a story with which millions of weekend hackers will avidly identify -- a man's search for golf's holiest grail: an elegant, repeatable, and effective golf swing.In the 1980s, editor of Esquire Lee Eisenberg redefined the magazine and positioned it for its phenomenal popularity. In the 1990s, finding himself on the shores of middle age, he decided to devote eighteen months to the mysteries and mastery of golf. Breaking Eighty is the story of how Eisenberg recognized that his failures on the golf course had less to do with a vise-tight grip and a stiff swing than with the dynamics of teaching and learning. A thousand manuals purport to teach the layman to play golf like a pro, but these, as Eisenberg writes, are written from the teacher's point of view; his is the only one to offer empathy, entertainment, and advice from a learner's perspective.Breaking Eighty is for every dreamer (or klutz) who has ever made the mistake of picking up a golf club.