18 best-selling nonfiction books like The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup by John Feinstein

Cover of The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup by John Feinstein

The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup

By: John Feinstein

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Walk Spoiled, a dramatic chronicle of the b…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup by John Feinstein , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee by Tom Coyne

1. A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee

By: Tom Coyne

4.31

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

An epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world?s greatest round of golf I… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction

2. Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros

By: Tom Coyne

3.80

Format: 368 pages,

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3. Tiger, Meet My Sister…: And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said

By: Rick Reilly

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Rick Reilly has been called "one of the funniest humans on the planet--an indescribable amalgam of … read more

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Cover of Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck

4. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.06

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game by Tom Coyne

5. A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

By: Tom Coyne

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the best golf books this century.” — Golf Digest From Tom Coyn… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course by Tom Coyne

6. A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

By: Tom Coyne

4.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest gol… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
"First tees no longer made me nervous, but somehow rangers still did."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"A holed ball was beautiful and final. All it left you were the stories of how it arrived there, powerless I change that plot."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"The land on which this game is played holds memories for a very long time, and once in a while, it lets us come back and walk around in them."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"People who don’t play golf pro to envy their golfing neighbors, admiring it as a nifty game you can play to a ripe old age. What they don’t understand is that we don’t keep playing because we can; we…"

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

Cover of The Cup They Couldn't Lose: America, the Ryder Cup, and the Long Road to Whistling Straits by Shane Ryan

7. The Cup They Couldn't Lose: America, the Ryder Cup, and the Long Road to Whistling Straits

By: Shane Ryan

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of the Ryder Cup—the event that pits the best golfers from America against the… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf by Alan Shipnuck

8. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports by Joshua  Robinson

9. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

By: Joshua Robinson

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

10. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski by Ian O'Connor

11. Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski

By: Ian O'Connor

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER The definitive biography of college basketball’s all-time winningest coa… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Second Life of Tiger Woods by Michael Bamberger

12. The Second Life of Tiger Woods

By: Michael Bamberger

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Michael Bamberger, author most recently of the New York Times bestseller Men in Green, the int… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Golf is like everything else. You plan. Then real life intervenes."

-Michael Bamberger, The Second Life of Tiger Woods

"All the while, an intensely personal real-time documentary was being shot, with the help of seventy-five CBS cameras, about a man, private by nature but famous by deed, trying to reclaim a lost life …"

-Michael Bamberger, The Second Life of Tiger Woods

"The scream is the great multitasker of human expression. It covers agony, ecstasy, relief, frustration. It's especially useful when you're at a loss for words. Tiger did a lot of screaming that after…"

-Michael Bamberger, The Second Life of Tiger Woods

Cover of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George  Stephanopoulos

13. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Out of the Pocket : Football, Fatherhood, and College GameDay Saturdays by Kirk Herbstreit

14. Out of the Pocket : Football, Fatherhood, and College GameDay Saturdays

By: Kirk Herbstreit

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A powerfully intimate, plain-spoken memoir about fathers and sons, fortitude, and football from the… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict

15. Tiger Woods

By: Jeff Benedict

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfat… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

16. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tiger & Phil: Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry by Bob Harig

17. Tiger & Phil: Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry

By: Bob Harig

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bob Harig's Tiger & Phil provides an in-depth chronicle of the decades-long rivalry that drove the … read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes At the Masters by Mark Cannizzaro

18. Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes At the Masters

By: Mark Cannizzaro

3.78

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

The Masters is unquestionably the crown jewel of golf's major tournaments, not only for the transce… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly

19. Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

By: Rick Reilly

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on al… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup by John Feinstein

20. The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup

By: John Feinstein

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Walk Spoiled, a dramatic chronicle of the b… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods by Curt Sampson

21. Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods

By: Curt Sampson

3.57

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

The incredible true story of Tiger Woods’s dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following h… read more

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14 Top audiobook books like The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup by John Feinstein

Transform Your Habits

Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

Alan Shipnuck

4.06

Transform Your Habits

LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

Joshua Robinson

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

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21 Top audiobook books like The Second Life of Tiger Woods by Michael Bamberger

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Greatest Game Ever Played

Mark Frost

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

Bob Rotella

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods

Hank Haney

3.70

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