The Eternal Summer: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Year

An entertaining, perceptive, and hypnotically readable exploration of the greatest and most important year in golf history in America, from the bestselling author of Hogan and The Masters. In 1960, golf and its personalities exploded into the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the sport collided. Here was Arnold Palmer, the working man’s hero, “sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying”; Pen Hogan, the greatest player of the fifties, a perfectionist battling t…