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Remarkably, one of sport's most contentious, intricate, and determining clashes performed out not in the boxing band or at the line of scrimmage but on the genteel green fairways of the world's finest golf programs. Arnie and Jack port. Palmer and Nicklaus. Their 50-yr duel, in both the clubhouse and the boardroom, propelled each to the position of North american icon and pressed modern golf to the heights and popularity it relishes today. Yet for all your ink that is spilled on both of these essential golf statistics individually, no person has ever evaluated their relationship in this way. Arnie was the cowboy, with rugged good looks, Popeye-like forearms, a flailing swing, and charm enough to win fans worldwide. Jack port was scientific, correct, conventional, aloof, even fat and awkward. Inevitably, Nicklaus acquired the better of Palmer on the course, conquering him in major victories, 18-7. But Palmer bested Nicklaus just about everywhere else, especially in the hearts of the public and in endorsement dollars - Palmer was the top-grossing athlete for 30 years, until JORDAN surpassed him. With dogged reporting and crisp, bright colored storytelling, the award-winning athletics columnist Ian O'Connor explores this heated professional and personal battle in fascinating, intimate, and revelatory depth. Drawing on unique and exclusive access to Palmer and Nicklaus, and prepared by some 200 new interviews, O'Connor illuminates the two men's extreme differences and sprawling impact through mini-dramas, such as their little-known first reaching on the course at the topsy-turvy U.S. Open up in 1962, their early involvement with marketing and a little agency called IMG, and their extreme competition for golf-course designs in their later years. By the end of this pause-resisting narrative, which spans five remarkable years, we see that every man wanted what the other had: Arnold had the adoring enthusiasts but needed the trophies. Jack port had the trophies but needed the love.
