In a long, award-winning career writing about golf, Bill Fields has sought out the most interesting stories --- not just those featuring big winners and losers, but the ones that get at the very character of the game. Collected here, his pieces offer an intriguing portrait of golf over the past century. The legends are here in vivid profiles of such familiar figures as Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Mickey Wright and Tiger Woods. But so are lesser-known golfers like John Schlee, Billy Joe Patton and Bert Yancey, whose tales are no less compelling.