A Story of Golf, Going Home, and Sharing Life's Lessons.
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"My good friend Jim Dodson seems to come up with one good book after another. But he produces something particularly powerful, something extra, when he writes about his own life experiences, as in his first book, the highly acclaimed Final Rounds, and his latest, A Son of the Game. ... Once again, Jim touches the heartstrings."
When acclaimed golf writer Jim Dodson leaves his home in Maine to revisit Pinehurst, North Carolina, where his father first introduced him to the game that would shape his life and career, it's because he feels he has lost direction. But once there, the curative power of the sandhills region not only helps him gain a new lease on life and find a new career working for the local paper but also reignites his flagging passion for the game of golf. And, perhaps more significantly, it inspires him to try to pass along to his teenage son the same sense of joy and contentment he has found through the game and to recall the many colorful and lifelong friends he has met on the links.
This wise memoir about finding new meaning through an old sport is filled with anecdotes about the many characters who are part of both the history of the game and of Pinehurst -- the Home of American Golf -- where many larger-than-life legends played some of their greatest rounds. Dodson's bestselling memoir Final Rounds began in Pinehurst twenty-five years ago, and now A Son of the Game completes the circle as it follows Dodson's journey of discovery back to the birthplace of his love for the game -- a love that he hopes to make a family legacy.