If you weren\u2019t around to watch the 1986 Masters Championship, reading Tom Clavin\u2019s \u201cOne For The Ages\u201d is the next best thing. While that particular Masters may have been golf\u2019s most magical climactic moment with so many wonderful competitors part of the cast, it was Jack Nicklaus\u2019 final major win in such stirring fashion that is worthy of review.\u00a0 I had watched the tournament live and many times since on tape and thought I might be bored with yet another recount. Typically, works reviewing golf championships interest me little \u2013 very little.\u00a0 This piece is different.<\/p>\n
Interestingly Clavin not only presents the chronology leading up to and through the tournament, he also interweaves a pithy rich recounting of the history of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters that reveals a variety of interesting scarcely known facts.\u00a0 The addition of others writer\u2019s quotes together with more recent recollections combine to produce an entertaining, eminently readable history of one of the most dramatic major championships ever contested.\u00a0 Clavin takes you back long before the 1986 event to develop an appreciation for what the Masters and Augusta National mean to golf and then moves right through every day leading up to and culminating in Nicklaus\u2019s stirring back-nine charge.\u00a0 Clavin concludes with an Epilogue that puts things in perspective from today\u2019s vantage point.<\/p>\n
Realizing that there are many who are not old enough to have seen the broadcast or followed the accounts, let alone remembered them, \u201cOne For The Ages\u201d is a worthy acquisition.\u00a0 I give it a \u201cthumbs up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"