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Table of Contents Preface Chapter One Golf on a Day of Infamy: The Pearl Harbor Attack Chapter Two It's Your Duty to Play More Golf: The Game's First Response Chapter Three War Comes to Augusta: The 1942 Masters and PGA Championship Chapter Four A Medal for Hogan: The Hale America Open Chapter Five The Grass is Not Greener: The Clubs and the War Chapter Six Autumn Leaves and a Spalding Dot: Shortages Hit Golf Chapter Seven Hunkering Down: An Elite Sport Comes Under Attack Chapter Eight Eisenhower and Jones: Warriors Chapter Nine A Call to Serve: The Pros Go to War Chapter Ten Good Enough to Play with Snead and Nelson: Burke and Bourisseau Chapter Eleven Stalag Golf: POWs Play Through Chapter Twelve D-Day: Golf and Operation Overlord Chapter Thirteen Soldiering On, Hole by Hole: Golf Keeps Up the Fight Chapter Fourteen A Game's Resilience: Golf Rebounds Chapter Fifteen Ben Who? and Lord Byron: The Greatest Streak in Golf History Chapter Sixteen The Greatest Boom of All Time: Golf Moves from the War Zones to Home Chapter Seventeen Worthy Champions: The Masters Resumes Epilogue Acknowledgments
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Golf and war -- United States -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.