{"product_id":"9781101216804","title":"Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros","description":"\u003ci\u003e?Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double.?\u003c\/i\u003e Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed. Overweight and burdened by a 14 handicap, he decided to find out for himself what it takes to play like a pro. \u003cp\u003e Charting his journey?which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttie?\u003ci\u003ePaper Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tour, where forty-mile-per-hour winds and a driving rain scare off his Japanese partners. With each chapter, he tracks his weight alongside his handicap, pursuing his dream with a reckless abandon that comes to involve hardcore diets, pricey technology, even psychologists. With echoes of \u003ci\u003eDead Solid Perfect\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWho's Your Caddy?\u003c\/i\u003e Tom brings his uniquely edgy, deeply human perspective to a game that can simultaneously bring out the best and the worst in everyone who tries to master it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116552667376,"sku":"9781101216804","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101216804_p0.jpg?v=1763686450","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101216804","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}