Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Great Golf Book Then Tragedy

First of all, I want to say that I am having trouble generating traffic to my http://1fighter.blogspot.com blog, aka the 1fight.com blog. I just compiled the rankings of the 33 greatest MMA fighters of all time. I posted the rankings on Bleacher Report also. The rankings were controversial, as expected.

Secondly, I just finished reading a book I picked up at the local library for 50 cents called Bud, Sweat ant Tears. The books chronicles the lives of Steve Duplantis and Rich Beem. Duplantis is a PGA tour caddie and Beem is an up and coming golf pro in the book.

The book was great and I would recommend it to the 18-40 year old crowd. After I finished the book, I did a search of Steve Duplantis on the Internet and found out that Duplantis had been killed when he was hit by a car earlier this year. I was pretty bummed out to find this out and I hope Duplantis' daughter is well taken care of.

Duplantis, in the book, is portrayed as a young single father struggling with personal demons and juggling his home and golf life. Beem, is the late 20's bachelor who finally makes it on the PGA tour and garners some success when he wins the Kemper Open in his rookie year. The early taste of success is then meant by Beem's struggles on the tracks.

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