Sam The Autobiography Of Sam Torrance

Sam Torrance is one of the most popular and charismatic golfers in the world. He has spent the last three decades at the top of the professional game, but it is his exploits in the Ryder Cup that are truly astounding. As a player, he is famous for his winning putt for Europe on the 18th green at the Belfry in 1985, which secured Europes first Ryder Cup victory for 28 years. And it was as captain of the team that Sam was to cap his glorious career, when on the 29th September 2002 Europe regained the Ryder Cup. Captained by Torrance to devastating affect, the European team defeated the Americans by 3 points with Torrance taking a gamble by putting his best players out first.    In his autobiography, Sam, who turns 50 this year, and his life-long friend and Daily Mail sportswriter Alan Fraser, tell the story of a fascinating life  the highlights and the low points of a remarkable 30 years in golf.

Sam Torrance

Like being a fly on the tank top of the moustachioed Scotsman himself . . . fascinating stuff

Captures the experience of the iconic contest

My Ryder Cup Years

The Ryder Cup has defined Sam Torrance's life as a professional golfer. He has played with and against some of the greatest golfers the game has ever known, in the biggest and most high-pressure team event in golf. 
 
In An Enduring Passion, Torrance recalls every great moment in the two decades he spent pursuing Ryder Cup glory and looks at how the event has changed since he was trying to qualify for it as a player in the late 1970s. He examines the tactics and techniques of the captains he played under and those he played against, and tells how his huge experience as a player, and his vice captaincy to Mark James in the bear pit of Brookline, shaped the way he conducted his own captaincy at The Belfry in 2002. Everything he had learned about the Ryder Cup went into his leadership during that event, and when he raised the trophy aloft at the end of it all he knew he had learned the lessons well. 
 
Today, Sam Torrance is one of the most identifiable faces, and voices, of golf. It is the Ryder Cup, though, that made him, and this book is his enlightening account of the competition from an insider's perspective.

Sam Torrance

Praise for An Enduring Passion

Like being a fly on the tank top of the moustachioed Scotsman himself . . . fascinating stuff

Fun for those who love Sam

A great read

Like being a fly on the tank top of the moustachioed Scotsman himself . . . fascinating stuff

Fun for those who love Sam

A great read

Like being a fly on the tank top of the moustachioed Scotsman himself . . . fascinating stuff

Fun for those who love Sam

A great read

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