{"product_id":"9781592402991","title":"Paper Tiger","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed. Overweight and burdened by a 14 handicap, he decided to find out for himself what it takes to play like a pro.\u003cp\u003eCharting his journey, which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttie—\u003ci\u003ePaper Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tour—where forty-mile-per-hour winds and a driving rain scare off his Japanese partners. With each chapter, he tracks his weight alongside his handicap, pursuing his dream with a reckless abandon that comes to involve hardcore diets, pricey technology, even psychologists. With echoes of \u003ci\u003eDead Solid Perfect\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWho's Your Caddy?\u003c\/i\u003e Tom brings his uniquely edgy, deeply human perspective to a game that can simultaneously bring out the best and the worst in everyone who tries to master it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Coyne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45893587370196,"sku":"9781592402991","price":17.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_63dd4b10-db55-40b1-a052-0dedce72136d.jpg?v=1732407988","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781592402991","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}