Golfdom, May 2014
The Golfdom Conversation A Difficult Par PHOTOS COURTESY GOTHAM BOOKS Golfdom chats up James Hansen author of the new Robert Trent Jones biography A Difficult Par to discuss the book and share an exclusive excerpt H istorian James Hansen Ph D may be best known for his many books about space his biography First Man The Life of Neil A Armstrong made the New York Times bestsellers list but before he could go to the moon he had to mow around the trees I got my start on a golf course I was mowing grass at a public course in Fort Wayne Ind as an 11 year old says Hansen a 6 handicapper They told me to mow around the base of every tree and once I finished start over His new book A Difficult Par Robert Trent Jones Sr and the Making of Modern Golf is a thorough vivid and revealing 480 page epic on the game he loves Available May 13th 2014 the book is the result of exhaustive James Hansen research and interviews including unique access to RTJs personal collection of papers 350 file cabinets drawings literally hundreds and proudly a run of Golfdom magazines dating back to the 1930s A lot of people want to give back to the game of golf because it has given so much to them Hansen says To me this was an extraordinary opportunity for me to give something back to golf that maybe it wouldnt have had any other way because of my training as a historian and a biographer We sat down with Hansen to discuss his book Golfdoms impact on Jones career and why RTJ was the best BY SETH JONES Continued on page 38 36 Golfdom May 2014 Golfdom com
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