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Lyle Slovick

Biography

Lyle Slovick

Lyle Slovick is a consultant for the United States Golf Association, a historian and writer. He was the Assistant University Archivist at George Washington University in the Special Collections Department of the Gelman Library. While there, Slovick served as co-editor of the online publication “GW Historical Encyclopedia,” contributing over 330 articles, and his writing has appeared in Washington History magazine and Through the Green, a journal of the British Golf Collectors Society. Slovick is the author of the novel THREE DAYS IN ELYSIAN FIELDS. He is also a Level I Affiliate Member of the U.S. Golf Teachers Federation, teaching beginning golfers the game since 2005.

Lyle Slovick

Books by Lyle Slovick

by Lyle Slovick - Nonfiction, Sports

In TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF GOLF’S GREATEST CHAMPIONS, Lyle Slovick has pulled together the inspirational stories of six golfers and a caddy whose strength of character sustained them against the physical and emotional trials that threatened both their careers and lives. In an era when many athletes have lost their luster as role models, the people in this book --- Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Charlie Sifford, Ken Venturi and Bruce Edwards --- offer lessons in perseverance, dignity, humility and faith.