Book description
The Ryder Cup has defined Sam Torrance's life as a professional
golfer. He has played with and against some of the greatest golfers
the game has ever known, in the biggest and most high-pressure team
event in golf.
In An Enduring Passion, Torrance recalls every great moment
in the two decades he spent pursuing Ryder Cup glory and looks at how
the event has changed since he was trying to qualify for it as a
player in the late 1970s. He examines the tactics and techniques of
the captains he played under and those he played against, and tells
how his huge experience as a player, and his vice captaincy to Mark
James in the bear pit of Brookline, shaped the way he conducted his
own captaincy at The Belfry in 2002. Everything he had learned about
the Ryder Cup went into his leadership during that event, and when he
raised the trophy aloft at the end of it all he knew he had learned
the lessons well.
Today, Sam Torrance is one of the most identifiable faces, and
voices, of golf. It is the Ryder Cup, though, that made him, and this
book is his enlightening account of the competition from an insider's perspective.
Sam Torrance was a Ryder Cup-winning captain in 2002, a vice captain
in 1999 and a leading player in eight consecutive European teams. He
made his Cup debut in 1981, famously holed the winning putt at The
Belfry in 1985 and was also a member of the first European side to win
in America, in 1987.
