Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major
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Norbert Doyle has set more Q School records than anyone.
Basketball friends: Mike Krzyzewski, Gary Williams, Roy Williams, Rick Barnes, Mike Brey, Karl Hobbs, Phil Martelli, Jim Calhoun, Jim Boeheim, Fran Dunphy, Thad Matta, Jay Bilas, Tom Brennan, Frank Sullivan, Jay Wright, Dave Odom, Jim Larranaga, Jimmy Patsos, Tim Frank, and everyone in the Patriot League. Thanks again to the orthopods: Eddie McDevitt, Bob Arciero, Gus Mazzocca, and Dean Taylor.
Howard Garfinkel is the closest thing to a true Damon Runyon character I have had the chance to know, and Tom Konchalski will always be the only honest man in the gym.
The swimmers: Jeff Roddin; Jason Crist; the FWRH trio of Clay F. Britt, Wally Dicks, and Mike Fell; Erik (Dr. Post— occasionally a split second too soon) Osborne; John Craig; Mark Pugliese; Doug Chestnut; Peter Ward (my once and future coach); Penny Bates; Carole Kammel; Margot Pettijohn; Tom Denes; A. J. Block; Susan (where have you gone?) Williams; Danny Pick; Amy Weiss; Warren Friedland; Marshall Greer; Paul Doremus; Bob Hansen; and, as always, Mary Dowling.
The China Doll/Shanghai Village Gang: Morgan Wootten, Aubre Jones, Sam Jones, Rob Ades, Jack Kvancz, Joe McKeown, Stanley Copeland, Reid Collins, Arnie Heft, Bob Campbell, Pete Dowling (in absentia), Chris (the Rookie) Wallace, Stanley Walker, Harry Huang, Herman Greenberg, Joe Greenberg, Bob Ferry, and the professor, George Solomon. Red, Zang, and Hymie’s voices can still be heard loud and clear.
The Rio Gang; Tate Armstrong, Mark Alarie, Clay (LB) Buckley, and the official secretary, Terry Chili.
The Feinstein Advisory Board: Keith Drum, Frank Mastrandrea, Wes Seeley, Dave Kindred, and Bill Brill.
Last, but not least, family: Jim and Arlene; Kacky, Stan, and Ann; Annie, Gregg, Rudy, Gus, and Harry; Jimmy and Brendan; Margaret, David, Ethan, and Ben; Bobby, Jennifer, Matthew, and Brian. Marcia made the last eleven years of my father’s life joyful, and for that I will be forever in her debt. Mary Clare Gibbons put up with a lot the past nineteen years, and I am thrilled (almost always) to be known to most people as “Danny and Brigid’s dad.” It is the nicest thing anyone has ever called me.
John Feinstein
Shelter Island, New York
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Feinstein is the bestselling author of Last Dance, Next Man Up, Let Me Tell You a Story (with Red Auerbach), Caddy for Life, Open, The Punch, The Last Amateurs, The Majors, A Good Walk Spoiled, A Civil War, A Season on the Brink, Play Ball, Hard Courts, and two novels. He has also written two young adult mysteries, Last Shot and Vanishing Act. Last Shot won the 2006 Edgar Allan Poe award in the young adult category. He writes for the Washington Post, Golf Digest, and America Online and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio, Washington Post Radio, and ESPN’s The Sports Reporters.