{"product_id":"playing-from-the-rough-9781668005972","title":"Playing from the Rough","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of one man’s quest to become the first person to play each of America’s 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the successful executive he became.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he set out to play each of \u003ci\u003eGolf Digest\u003c\/i\u003e’s America’s 100 greatest golf courses in one year, Jimmie James knew he was attempting the impossible. But then again, he’d spent his entire life defying the odds.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJames was born invisible. His birth certificate, long since filed away in some clerk’s office in East Texas, recorded facts about him that were deemed most relevant in the late 1950s: “colored” and “illegitimate.” His great-great-grandmother was enslaved, and his early life was confined by the privation and segregation of the late Jim Crow-era South.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFour decades later—having put himself through an HBCU and d","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49411266740567,"sku":"9781668005972","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/playing-from-the-rough-9781668005972","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}