John Coyne's Books
Mar.25.2011
Bobby Jones always hoped that someday an amateur would win the Masters. In this novel, bestselling author John Coyne—The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan and The Caddie Who Played With Hickory—tells the story of Tim Alexander, an amateur from the public links courses in Southern Illinois, who qualifies for the Masters and has a chance to fulfill Jones’ dream. In The Caddie Who Won...
May.12.2009
Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high-tech equipment but with skill, finesse, and creativity. And the greatest hickory player of all time was Walter Hagen---until the day he met a teenage caddie at a country club...
May.15.2007
Returning as an honored guest to the exclusive country club where he worked in his youth, Jack Handley remembers the summer of '46 when he caddied for Ben Hogan in the last Chicago Open. Now a respected historian, Jack recounts to the assembled sons and daughters of members he once knew the dramatic match between the mysterious and charismatic Hogan and the...
John Coyne knows golf and golf history, and he understand the intricate working of the human heart. Anyone who loves golf--and many readers who don't know a five iron from a free throw--will appreciate his skill and be happily drawn into his fine fiction.
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—Roland Merullo, author of Golfing with God
About John
A former caddie, John Coyne is the best-selling author of more than twenty-five books of fiction and nonfiction. A life-long lover of golf, Coyne has edited and written a number of books on golf, the most recent of which are his ‘caddie’ novels: The Caddie...