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Out of the Rough
Out of the Rough
Nov 25, 2024 9:51 PM

Author:Steve Williams

Out of the Rough

One of the most successful caddies of the modern era, having amassed 150 wins, Kiwi Steve Williams has worked with some of the golfing world's best, including 13 years on the bag of Tiger Woods. Together, Woods and Williams won more than 80 tournaments – with 13 major championships among them.

In this candid reflection on his years caddying for Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Raymond Floyd, Terry Gale, Ian Baker-Finch and Adam Scott, Williams shares the highs and lows of their careers, explains the critical role of a caddy and offers a rare insider's view of the professional golfing world.

Reviews

A unique perspective on the crucial role of a caddy and the world of professional golfing.

—— The Bookseller

A candid reflection… Offers a rare insider’s view of the professional golfing world.

—— Women & Golf

Rather juicy.

—— Bunkered

Explores one of sport's ultimate questions: is there a final human boundary and, if so, where? A terrific book: elegant, engaging and rewarding.

—— Ed Smith, former England cricketer, Times Columnist and author of Luck

This book explodes out of the blocks, continues at a terrific clip, never flags and breasts the tape victorious, its arms in the air. Like the best foot race, it is tight, pacy and riveting. A brilliant debut. Give the man a medal and a bunch of flowers

—— Esquire

Superb. Caesar has established himself as perhaps the best new long-form magazine writer since the arrival of John Jeremiah Sullivan

—— Richard Williams , Guardian

Caesar wears his considerable research into most aspects of the marathon - its history, science, and the spectre of performance-enhancing drugs - with a loping, easy style

—— Independent

His reportage has the feel of the very best of American journalism - as if he has researched the matter to hell, spent his time in the field, nailed down every fact, then bashed it out on a typewriter with a cigarette smouldering in his mouth

—— Sunday Times

A fine study of human endurance and the competitive spirit of marathon runners

—— Independent

Lyrical and passionate... a celebration of the human spirit and what it can achieve

—— Observer

Caesar is very good on the personalities, mixing the art and science of distance running with vignettes about the athletes

—— Matthew Syed , The Times

Caesar's Two Hours explodes out of the blocks, continues at a terrific clip, never flags and breast the tape victorious, its arms in the air. Like the best foot races, it is tight, pacy and riveting. A brilliant debut. Give the man a medal and a bunch of flowers

—— Esquire

There is much spirit in Two Hours and much human warmth

—— New Statesman

This portrait of Mutai ... reveals far more about the Kenyan mystique and the prospects for a two-hour marathon than any bird's eye survey could.

—— Literary Review

This book is an entertaining account taking in everyone from stage winners and former yellow jerseys who couldn’t hang on, to a breakaway leader who stopped for a bottle of wine and then took a wrong turn, to a doper whose drug cocktail backfired

—— Bike Radar

We know the winners of the Tour de France, but Lanterne Rouge tells the forgotten, often inspirational and occasionally absurd stories of the last-placed rider

—— Miss Dinky

Matt's work is the most impressive West Ham book of the year, a genuine and sincere attempt to get to the root of the man. It is an excellent, thought-provoking book

—— Knees Up Mother Brown

A compelling and complete account

—— Sport

In The Man in Full, acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy, peeling away the layers of legend and looking at Moore’s life from all sides – in triumph, in failure, in full

—— Bert Wright , Nudge

Outstanding... this excellent biography comes very close to describing the real Bobby Moore

—— Post

An exquisitely written study of light in the works of various poets and painters.

—— Daily Telegraph

A wonderful literary meditation… This book is suffused with vivid personal memory and precise, delicate observation of Nature. Wroe’s feeling for landscape is both sensitive and acute; her style is lyrical and precise.

—— Hugo Davenport , Resurgence and Ecologist

A book for winter.

—— Honor Clerk , Spectator, Books of the Year

People of faith talk a great deal about light, and we would do well to learn more about it from Wroe’s quick-eyed love of it.

—— Mark Oakley , Church Times

Wroe passes her elusive subject, light itself, through the prism of her dazzlingly well-read mind, and the resulting rainbows fairly dance across the page… An utterly original book that will leave you, in every sense of the word, enlightened.

—— Claire Lowdon , Sunday Times, Book of the Year

Ann Wroe’s Six Facets of Light is a fascinating and original meditation [on light]. Six Facets of Light is an exquisite collage of relations, a prose poem to “what escaped” absolutely everyone – and to how madly, brilliantly, they tried to “be in step”.

—— Joanna Kavenna , Times Literary Supplement
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