John Feinstein
American sportswriter and author best known for in-depth books on golf and college basketball (including A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled), as well as sports commentary and fiction for younger readers.
Books
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1. Caddy For Life
The Bruce Edwards Story
An intimate portrait of Bruce Edwards, a longtime PGA Tour caddie best known for his partnership with Tom Watson, tracing his rise from teenage caddie to respected figure in professional golf and the deep bond he formed with the players he served. Through interviews, tournament anecdotes, and personal reflections, the book explores the traditions and hidden life of touring caddies, the loyalty and humor that defined Edwards, and the devastating diagnosis of ALS that transformed him into an outspoken advocate. The narrative balances behind-the-scenes sport reporting with a moving account of friendship, resilience, and the human costs and dignity of battling a terminal illness.
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2. Open
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3. A Good Walk Spoiled
Days and Nights on the PGA Tour
An intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of life on the professional golf tour that follows players, caddies, and officials through a season to reveal the pressures of competition, the financial stakes, personality clashes, and the rituals that shape performance. Combining vivid scene-setting and character profiles with reporting from tournaments and locker rooms, it shows how talent, temperament, luck, and money interact to make or break careers and exposes both the glamour and the unglamorous realities of the sport.
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4. Feherty
A candid, fast-paced biography that traces the rise of a working-class Irishman from a difficult childhood and uneven playing career to rebirth as golf’s most irreverent and beloved broadcaster; through interviews, anecdotes and reporting it reveals his sharp wit, self-destructive tendencies, battles with alcoholism and mental-health struggles, and a hard-won redemption that transformed him into an insider who reshaped how the game is talked about on television.
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5. Tales From Q School
A lively, behind-the-scenes account that follows a diverse group of professional hopefuls through the brutal PGA Tour qualifying process, revealing the physical and emotional toll, the high-stakes tension on and off the course, the personal backstories and sacrifices that drive them, moments of camaraderie and rivalry, and how a few strokes can mean the difference between a lifelong dream and another year of struggle.
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7. The Prodigy
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