Golden Twilight: Jack Nicklaus in His Final Championship Season Hardcover - 2001

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For nearly 40 years, Jack Nicklaus has dominated professional golf like no other golfer. And in the last decade, The Golden Bear has watched his aging body disavow itself from its previous greatness. Forced by nature to endure pain so great that he could hardly walk, Nicklaus had engrossed himself in his other golf ventures, such as his brilliant design work around the world. In the final year of the 20th century, Nicklaus' century, he elected to undergo major hip replacement surgery. It would allow him one last chance, one final charge, back to the greatness he bad enjoyed. He committed himself late in '99, as twilight settled on one century and dawn entered to another millennium, to the resurrection of his golf game, the game that had no peer in the last 100 years, the game that was unmatched in concentration and unmatched in success. After all, he was the greatest who ever lived.

Author David Shedloski provides a never-before-seen insight into the persona of Nicklaus. Having been granted access to the Golden Bear as no other writer ever had previously, Shedloski takes us into the heart and soul of the greatest player of our time. What Shedloski discovers is that Nicklaus, with all of the mental capability of the champion be had been, conjures up one final grand effort to rekindle the greatness, of four decades of an unforgettable champion. What Shedloski allows us to witness is the ensuing struggle and reflection that we have never before seen and may never see again in golf's greatest professional golfer. Golden Twilight is a book you won't want to put down until the last page has turned to darkness.