Golf Books #91 (Walking with Jack: A Father’s Journey to Become…

…His Son’s Caddie) A long-standing promise between a father and his five-year-old son…

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Walking with Jack is a poignant diary of a father’s journey to the hallowed golf courses of St. Andrews, Scotland, to fulfil his dream of becoming a caddie and join his son–a promising young golfer standing at a crossroads–for his début on the professional tour.

Don Snyder and his young son, Jack, had promised each other that someday Jack would play on the pro golf tour . . . and Don would walk beside him as his caddie. Years later, at fifty-seven, Don left the comfort of his Maine home to learn how to caddie from the people who invented the game. In Scotland he studied the famed courses, fought his way onto the rotation as a full-time caddie, and recorded the fascinating stories of golfers from every station in life—all the while living like a monk and sending his earnings back home. Jack endured his own arduous journey, perfecting his college game until the triumphant day he and Don drove south to compete in one of the PGA’s toughest qualifying tours.

Walking with Jack is truly compelling golf story and the kind of book that makes you appreciate the lengths to which a father will go to support his son.

Publication Date: June 11, 2013 (source)

About the Author

Don J. Snyder is the acclaimed author of many books, including the memoirs The Cliff Walk and Of Time and Memory and the novels Night Crossing and Fallen Angel.