Book description
Norman Dabell, journalist, broadcaster and notorious jinx, has been
covering the European golf circuit for over 20 years, though after
reading this hilarious account of his mishaps, you may well come to
wonder how he has managed to survive for so long.
Join Norman as he retraces his pursuit of the travelling circus of
the golf world from St Andrews to Sun City, Malaga to Morocco,
encountering all the great faces of the modern game. Woods,
Ballesteros, Faldo, Montgomerie, Westwood, Lyle, Woosnam, Langer,
Olazabal, Garcia... they have all made the headlines. Dabell is there
to make sure they do - while also trying to survive another day.
Golf isn't really meant to be fun, they say, and sometimes it can be
toture. But Danbell's rib-tickling (and his have been more than
tickled) account will have even the most serious enthusiast in
stitches. Fate has caused him many a tumble, broken bone and on-air
gaffe, and Dabell's presence inside the ropes has been known to make
even the toughest tour professional blanche. However, he is a
favourite of Major-winner Vijay Singh, who might have never have got
his career on the road if his ball had plummeted out of bounds instead
of ricocheting onto the fairway off Dabell's head in Spain in 1990.
Singh made a birdie instead of a possible double-bogey, won the
tournament and ten years later went on to beat the world at Augusta.
Just one of a thousand escapades which happened to a living, breathing
Natural Hazard.
Broadcasting for BBC Radio Five Live, the World Service and News 24,
and writing for the
Daily Telegraph
and Reuters, has provided its fair share of hazards for Norman Dabell.
Somehow he has soldiered on, occasionally escaping from the golfing
menagerie to pen two successful books:
How We Won the Ryder Cup
and
Winning the Open
.
