The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup Audiobook (Free)

In the #1 NY Times bestselling writer of AN EXCELLENT Walk Spoiled, a dramatic chronicle from the bitterly-fought 2016 Ryder Cup pitting a U.S. team out for revenge against the Europeans motivated to keep carefully the Glass out of American hands.

Getting into 2016, the Americans had lost a fantastic six out of the last seven Ryder Cup fits, and tensions were operating high for the showdown that took place in October, 2016 in Hazeltine, Minnesota, just days after American legend Arnold Palmer had died..Read More about The Initial Major: The Inside Story from the 2016 Ryder Cup What resulted was perhaps one of the most raucous and heated 3 days in the Cup’s lengthy history. Award-winning author John Feinstein will take readers behind the scenes, providing an internal view of the dramatic stories as they unfolded: veteran Phil Mickelson’s two-year roller-coaster as he upended the American planning procedure and helped assemble a superb team; superstar Rory McIlroy becoming the clear-cut psychological leader of the Western european group, and his reasons for wanting to beat the US group so badly these times; the raucous fits between McIlroy and American Patrick Reed – leading to both incredible golf, and several moments that threatened to come to blows; the come back of PADRAIG HARRINGTON not as a new player but an helper captain, and his obsession with assisting the US win – that was never the case when he was playing. John Feinstein’s traditional bestseller, A Good Walk Spoiled, place the pub for golf books. Now Feinstein provides his unique take on the Ryder Cup, which has clearly become golf’s most intense and emotional event…it’s ‘first Major.’