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Book Review
Steven Pressfield’s
The Legend of Bagger Vance is
the quintessential golf novel.
It’s difficult to pinpoint the most important part of this book.
Is it the celebrity and athleticism of Bobby Jones and Walter
Hagen, the mysticism of the all-knowing Bagger Vance, the
disillusionment and heroism of Rannulph Junah, or the naivety and
eagerness of young Hardy?
The reason Vance is quintessential is that it shows all stages of the growing golfer. Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen are the goal. Junah is the learner. Hardy is the beginner, and Vance is the way through which the growing golfer is to reach his goal.
Out of all of the golf novels out
there, Vance reads as one of
the most instructional.
While telling an intriguing story, it instructs the reader on how to
trust his swing and to find the “Field”, things with which all golfers
struggle. As a golfer, even
if you are not a reader, you have to take the time to read this book.
It will change your entire philosophy on the mental side of golf.