Golf Begins at 50: Playing the Lifetime Game Better Than Ever by Player, Gary; Tolhurst, Desmond
Golf Begins at 50: Playing the Lifetime Game Better Than Ever
The Definitive, High-Performance Roadmap for Strategic Swing Mastery, Longevity, and Middle-Age Excellence
The Definitive, High-Performance Roadmap for Strategic Swing Mastery, Longevity, and Middle-Age Excellence
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Golf Begins at 50: Playing the Lifetime Game Better Than Ever
- Author: Gary Player (with Desmond Tolhurst)
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
- Publication Date: 1 May 1988
- ISBN-10: 0671638618
- ISBN-13: 9780671638610
- Edition Details: First US Edition, First Printing. Deluxe Hardcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher’s premium two-tone cloth-and-board hardcover casing with vibrant gold-stamped spine lettering.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 160 pages. Richly enhanced with instructional step-by-step photography sequences, precise biomechanical swing blueprints, and targeted longevity fitness matrices.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Used - Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original hardcover binding presents in a highly secure, collector-grade state. The two-tone boards are completely flat, clean, and defensively square at all corner tips. The cloth binding is unyielding, showing no vertical spine-lean or core structural collapse. Storage contact is restricted to light, microscopic shelving friction along the absolute base margins.
- Interior: The text block is exceptionally crisp, bright, and robustly bound. All 160 internal pages are completely clean, white, and fully intact. The entire text is entirely free of traditional user highlighting, underlying annotations, owner name inscriptions, library stamps, or common dealer pencil markings.
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The Dust Jacket: Used - Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition Detail: The original illustrated paper dust jacket is present, whole, and completely intact. Displays only minimal, microscopic signs of edge friction along the extreme tips, fully consistent with safe, standard domestic shelf-sheltering. The jacket face panels retain their original vivid coloration and bold contrast, remaining entirely free of heavy open tears, deep sun-fading on the spine, or chips.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1988—shortly after his entry into senior competition—Golf Begins at 50 is an exceptional cross-disciplinary sports manual that chronicles the competitive rebirth of an absolute sporting titan. Since crossing his milestone 50th birthday in November 1985, Gary Player took the international Senior Tour by storm, becoming a regular, dominant winner and proving to middle-aged golfers worldwide that the game does not fade with time—it merely enters its most vital chapter.
Writing alongside legendary golf instructional writer Desmond Tolhurst, the narrative strips away outdated teaching dogmas to deliver an immediate, practical roadmap for veteran golfers. Player outlines the physical and mental transformations required to maintain athletic vitality, master the senior swing, and play the lifetime game better than ever. Bypassing dry theory, the text maps out the precise fitness routines, grip adaptations, and course-management strategies that allowed the "Black Knight" to continually out-strategize younger fields. This premium first-edition hardcover collectible copy is a highly presentable volume that serves as an invaluable primary historical record for sports purists and golf historians alike.
Author Profile: Gary Player & Desmond Tolhurst
Gary Player DMS, OIG, nicknamed the Black Knight, Mr. Fitness, and the International Ambassador of Golf, is a monumental giant of global sports culture. Widely considered one of the finest golfers in history, his staggering playing record spans nine major championships on the regular tour and nine major championships on the Champions Tour—making him the only player to achieve the career Grand Slam on both tours. Over seven decades of elite competition, he claimed over 160 professional titles worldwide, a feat honored by his award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2021.
Desmond Tolhurst was a highly distinguished international golf writer, instructional editor, and veteran sports journalist. Best known for his brilliant, decades-long tenure as a senior editor for Golf Magazine, Tolhurst was highly praised for his deep understanding of biomechanics, technical clarity, and sharp narrative pacing. His premier literary partnership ensures that Player's elite physical principles are converted into an accessible, authoritative masterpiece of modern sports instruction.
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