All Carry - by Gene Wojciechowski (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A recently laid-off golf reporter. A down-on-his-luck caddie. And a magical set of clubs once owned by Jack Nicklaus. In this wonderfully funny novel, New York Times bestselling author and former ESPN reporter Gene Wojciechowski gives us a pair of unlikely champions unlike any other.

Joe is a golf reporter. He's missed more Father's Days than he cares to count because that's when he has to cover the US Open. But his son Buddy has counted every single one.

Joe and Buddy's relationship is fractured at best. Then one day at a garage sale Buddy finds a woefully obsolete set of golf clubs that supposedly belonged to Jack Nicklaus and decides to give them to his father as an olive branch. When Joe takes the clubs out on a whim, he discovers something unbelievable: he's hitting 400 yards. No one hits the ball that far, not Tiger, not Nicklaus.

Max "Hard Way" Mitchell knows golf perhaps better than anyone. He used to be one of the best caddies on the PGA Tour. But he was run out of town after sleeping with a golf pro's wife. Now he's the owner of a run-down driving range, his glory days slipping away.

When Joe is laid-off, and Hardway realizes that with this magical set of golf clubs he is better than anyone on the tour, he convinces Joe to do the seemingly impossible--win the Masters as an amateur. And to do this they'll need each other. Told with a specificity that only comes from years of covering the sport, Gene Wojciechowski's fiction debut, All Carry, is a feel-good father/son/unlikely friendship/comeback story that will no doubt be a new classic.

Review Quotes

"Once again the venerable adage 'The smaller the ball, the better the literature' proves true. Wojciechowski's All Carry is beyond a gem. It's a true sporting masterpiece. The great written stuff on the game--from Golf in the Kingdom to Caddyshack to Dead Solid Perfect--always seems to smack of a tall tale. The writers of such yarns, like Mr. Wojo, are so steeped in the lore that they make the implausible seem truer-than-true. Wojciechowski is a multiple-Emmy-winning golf writer, and his on-tour, inside-the-ropes experience, particularly at the Masters, makes this long-ball tale come to vivid, magical life. If you love the game, you will savor every page. All Carry is an instant classic!"--Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance

"A novel that is nothing short of magical. A great golf yarn spun with a true insider's knowledge of the game, a supernatural set of clubs at its center, and the natural swing of a writer who masters the course. Wojciechowski's indelible gallery of characters--from the middle-aged writer turned sudden Tour Pro, to the disgraced caddy by his side, to the iniquitous Tour veteran in their way--all take us on a journey to the game's high places, with its highest stakes, told with all the humor and madness and wonder that is golf itself. All Carry not only finds the target but also touches the heart."--Tom Rinaldi, Fox Sports reporter and New York Times bestselling author of The Red Bandanna

About the Author

Gene Wojciechowski has spent more than 40 years as a sports reporter, at the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News and Chicago Tribune, and later joining ESPN, where he served as a writer and on-air features reporter on the network's golf coverage, SportsCenter and College GameDay. He has covered almost every significant sporting event in the world, including nearly 75 golf majors, and done ESPN stories on and with the most consequential players in the game: Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, and Gary Player. His work has earned him multiple Sports Emmys and Edward R. Murrow Awards, as well as recognition from the Golf Writers Association of America. He is a New York Times bestselling author who has written or co-written thirteen books, including The Last Great Game and Kirk Herbstreit's memoir, Out of the Pocket. He lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife.