Name: Ray Billows - The Cinderella Kid: The unlikely and colorful story of a world-class amateur golfer (en Inglés)
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Author: Buggy, Tom
ISBN: 9781539729464

portada Ray Billows - The Cinderella Kid: The unlikely and colorful story of a world-class amateur golfer (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Tom Buggy

Editorial

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

158

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.9 cm

Peso

0.19 kg.

ISBN13

9781539729464

Categorías

Golf

Ray Billows - The Cinderella Kid: The unlikely and colorful story of a world-class amateur golfer (en Inglés)

Tom Buggy (Autor) · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Ray Billows - The Cinderella Kid: The unlikely and colorful story of a world-class amateur golfer (en Inglés)"

In 1935, just five years after the great Bob Jones won his Grand Slam and retired from competition, a 20-year-old amateur golfer in a struggling family left Racine, Wisconsin for a $17-a-week shipping clerk job in Poughkeepsie, New York. Ray Billows brought with him a self-taught golf game from the caddie ranks, a gritty determination, and wondrous dreams of competing and succeeding at the highest level of American amateur golf. He brought little else. He arrived at the prestigious Winged Foot Golf Club for the 1935 New York State Amateur Championship in a dilapidated $7 Model T Ford convertible that he intended to sleep in, and without enough money for a caddie. He left with his first significant title and a nickname - The Cinderella Kid - which captured what he was and what he had accomplished. All of Ray Billows' dreams came true, except for one that would haunt him throughout his life.This book tells his story, a story that is sprinkled with thrilling golf, wonderful success, cruel disappointment, personal highlights, humorous anecdotes with Bob Jones, the Duke of Windsor and Babe Ruth, and a reputation as one of the finest gentlemen in the game. The book also provides a glimpse into American amateur golf during the period from 1930 to 1950. It contains 40 photographs.