Miracle at Augusta is a must read for all of us hopeless golf hackers. You get to experience so many of the same feelings we all have out there on the links. The game is played so much in your head and Patterson really understands this. You are also likely to have Tin Cup flashbacks as you read. A very fun read!!

I found the book an easy relaxing read. Many times I discovered myself smiling as I read it. James Patterson reminds us a few times lightly that this is fiction, but to me it is everyday life with errors corrected, new friends made, some from just helping others and the dream of playing Augusta National made all the more rewarding by "sneaking in"

I don't want to give away the end of this very nice story. But clearly the authors are expecting most of their readers to be certainly fans, if not, students of the game. The climactic events involve two clear misunderstandings of basic golf rules. If one hits a second shot either out of bounds, or the ball proves to be lost, the next shot hit is your fourth shot, including the one shot penalty. So if you're on the green of a par 4 you are now putting for 5 or bogey. By the same token, if the second shot you hit you believe is behind a green and you spend five minutes looking for the ball and then you abandon it, it doesn't matter that you later find the first ball and want to count it. Your provisional ball lying four on the green is now in play and the best score you can make is five or bogey. I'm sure a lot of research went into this book. I'm also sure there was probably an editor involved. How they could butcher these basic rules is far beyond me.