{"product_id":"let-there-be-pebble-9780803233577","title":"Let There Be Pebble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA one-time failed Division One golf walk-on, Zachary Michael Jack opts to stare down an early midlife crisis by chronicling a US Open year spent at Pebble Beach, site of the US's number one public course and its fairy-tale host town, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. There, along the blue Pacific, he traces the colorful, capricious, and comical world of golf on the Monterey Peninsula.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A real-life golf fantasy year, boldly lived and exuberantly told.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like the author himself, the reader of \u003ci\u003eLet There Be Pebble\u003c\/i\u003e won't play golf one bit better at the end of the book. But there are enough laughs, and even a few poignant moments in between, to satisfy any golfer.\"—Jack Shakely, \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There's plenty to satisfy, entertain and prod most golfers to want to read this one on Pebble. . . . An absolute winner!\"—Bob Koczor, \u003ci\u003eGolf Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Few courses have spawned as many published words as Pebble Beach. It's unlikely that any writer will ever tackle this subject with the skill displayed by Jack.\"—Martin Kaufmann, \u003ci\u003eGolf Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Every golfer goes through some variation of the mid-life crisis. Not everyone gets to do it on the Monterrey Peninsula. Once the obvious envy is removed from the equation, what's left is an inviting escapade into discovering—through a diverse cast from Michael Murphy and Clint Eastwood to the caddie corps and the author himself—why Pebble and its high-rent environs are always so absorbing, especially in an Open season.\"—Golf.com\u003cbr\u003e\"A combination of history, celebrity-chasing and a few fleeting glimpses behind the \"out of bounds\" tapes strung around the iconic golf course, this book will not only provide a few laughs but also offer some revealing looks at the folks who make events like the U.S. Open and the AT\u0026amp;T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tournaments function smoothly.\"Robert Walch, \u003ci\u003eSalinas Californian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Then God Created the Heavens and Earth, and Carmel-by-the-Sea, and God Said, \"Let There Be Pebble\"     000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Dark Knights, Great Whites, Dear Young Watsons, Fuzzy Memories, and Felonious Meetings of Land and Sea      000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Bill Murray's Cinderella Story Meets Slu-Dog Millionaire's     000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Shivas Irons, the Great White Whale, and Golf in the Kingdom of Pebble     000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Hitting the Books at Pebble's School of Hard Rocks 000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. How to Lose Your Pebble Virginity in Eighteen So-Not-Easy Holes      000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. The Ballad of Bobby Clampett and Casey Boyns 000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Where the Bodies Are Buried: Touching Up the Mona Lisa, The Myth of the Fifth, and Other Chilling Tales from Stillwater Cove 000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Links, Love, and Lust in the Garden of Eastwood    000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Bubba Watson Tweets Cheats; Rickie Fowler Ducks Haircut; Mark Brooks Smokes Field, Fags; and All the Other News That's Fit to Print from Pebble's Other Pro-Am   000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Mayors, Millionaires, (Life) Mulligans, and (Re)Morse East of Eastwood    000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Swinging in the New Year: High Balls, Catcalls, and Last Calls at Ye Olde Crosby Clambake      000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. All Shook Up at the at\u0026amp;t National Pro-Am: Son of Iowa Meets Tiger's “Big Brother” Meets Asian King of Rock-and-Roll Meets Hungry Godzillas 000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. We Are the Major Champions, My Friends: Pebble and Spyglass Hill on AT\u0026amp;T Moving Day   000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. D. J. Does Valentine's Day: Clint, Climax, and Eye Candy Sunday at the Clambake 000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. The Boy Wonder, the Bündchen-Brady, the Bathetic Mex, the Bra-Bearer, and the Boomer: Celebrity Rounds at Carmel-by-the-Sea-and-Be-Seen     000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Hard, Brown, and Out of Control: U.S. Open Performance Anxiety and Premature Tony Jacklination      000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. May U.S. Open Winds Be Always at Your Back, May 17-Mile Drive Lay at Your Feet, May Pebble Rise to Meet You 000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eAcknowledgments   000","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405249585495,"sku":"9780803233577","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803233577.jpg?v=1730489278","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/let-there-be-pebble-9780803233577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}