Shark: The Biography of Greg Norman
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Shark: The Biography of Greg Norman

Lauren St. John
Performed By : Ian Esmo
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 11 hours 30 minutes
Sports
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Greg Norman is golfs most complex and controversial celebrity and perhaps its most
gifted and charismatic player. Winner of more than 70 tournaments, including the 1986 and 1993 British
Opens, he has reigned as the worlds number-one-ranked golfer for most of a decade and began 1998
as the PGA Tours career-earnings leader with almost $12 million. As ruthless in the boardroom as he
is on the golf course, the Shark turned a $2 million stake in Cobra Golf into a payoff of more than $40
million, bought a Boeing 747 jet for his personal use, and launched a clothing line bearing his
multicolored-shark motif.

Three parts Crocodile Dundee, two parts Jack Nicklaus, and one part Don Quixote, the jetsetting Shark
is larger than life. He has raced Ferraris with Nigel Mansell, hauled marlin over the side of plunging boats,
scuba dived with sharks, taken a joyride in an F-14, saved drowning friends, and entertained a US president
at his Florida compound. Yet Norman stands blond head and broad shoulders above golfs elite as the sports
most notorious victim of cruel calamity. His dramatic losses at the 1986 PGA Championship, the 1987
Masters, and the 1996 Masters rank among Golfs most inexplicable defeats rendered by the most outrageous
strokes of misfortune.

In this riveting and revealing biography, internationally acclaimed journalist Lauren St. John examines Normans
conquests as well as his failures and his relationships with his father, his agents, fellow golfers, and caddies.
Using her unparalleled access to dozens of people who know Norman best, including the Shark himself,
St. John explains how Normans fear of bankruptcy drove him to win the 1986 British Open; exclusively reveals
the background of the break-up with his first manager and his subsequent split with IMG; tells why golfs greatest
natural talent has so often snatched defeat from the jaws of victory; and explains his tempestuous relationships
with Jack Nicklaus and other top players.

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McCarthy's Bar
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McCarthy's Bar

Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
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The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.

McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.

Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.