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The Fine Green Line: My Year of Golf Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours (Kindle Edition)
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Amazon.com Review
Some stories regularly refresh themselves. The Walter Mittyesque tale of the dreamer chasing the dream is one of them. In The Fine Green Line, John Paul Newport’s dream is a golf dream, and he relates it with good grace and humor, quite willing to analyze its inherent improbability and interpret the mysteries at its core. In his mid-30s, recently remarried, a new father, and playing to a handicap of less than 3, he sets out to focus on his game for a ye (more…)
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