Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Jim Dodson, author of numerous books about golf. His critically-acclaimed and bestselling books include Final Rounds, Faithful Travelers, The Dewsweepers, Beautiful Madness, The Road to Somewhere, A Golfer’s Life (with Arnold Palmer), Ben Hogan – An American Life, which won the Herbert Warren Wind/USGA International Book Award for 2004. In 2008, he was a featured commentator in the award-winning HBO documentary “Back Nine at Cherry Hills.”
A Son of the Game, published in 2009 by Algonquin Books, was named “Top Golf Book of the Year” by the International Network of Golf, the same award Final Rounds won in 1997. American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and the Age of Modern Golf, published by Knopf in early 2012, won the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Award for 2012, his second USGA Book of he Year award (Ben Hogan, An American Life won in 2005. Triumvirate was also selected as one of the top 100 Books of 2012 by the New York Times and inspired a documentary of the same name on Golf Channel, with a script by the author.
Dodson and his wife Wendy reside in Greensboro, North Carolina. His current book, titled The Range Bucket List, is published by Simon & Schuster.
Mark Your Calendar
11/16/22 – Lewis Bowling, Author & Duke Football Historian
12/14/22 – Christmas Party! (NOTE: This is the ONLY meeting in December, and it is the SECOND Wednesday of the month)
***WINTER BREAK***
1/18/23 – Dan Brooks, Head Coach, Duke Women’s Golf