The Phantom of the Open Maurice Flitcroft, The World's Worst Golfer

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Synopsis

When 46-year-old crane driver and former comedy stunt-diver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way into the Open - having never before played a round of golf in his life - he ran up a record-worst score of 121. The sport's ruling classes went nuclear, and banned him for life.Maurice didn't take it lying down. In a hilarious game of cat-and-mouse with The Man, he entered tournaments again - and again, and again - using increasingly ludicrous pseudonyms such as Gene Pacecki, Arnold Palmtree and Count Manfred von Hoffmanstel (more often than not disguised by a Zapata moustache soaked in food dye).In doing so, he sent the authorities into apoplexy, and won the hearts of hackers from Muirfield to Michigan, becoming arguably the most popular - but certainly the bravest - sporting underdog the world has ever known

Book details

Author:
Scott Murray, Simon Farnaby
ISBN:
9781407090962
Related ISBNs:
9781407091129, 9780224083171, 9781529195859
Publisher:
Random House
Pages:
384
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2022-03-10
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2010
Copyright by:
Yellow Jersey 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Sports