The Payne Stewart Story by Larry Guest is a golf based story of the life and times of one of the most charismatic Tour professionals the PGA Tour has ever known. Larry Guest has done a brilliant job of reporting, in this can't-put-it-down saga of devotion, success, and heartbreak that will touch everyone who reads it.Customer Review: Disappointing
If you are looking for a biography about Payne Stewart, this is not it. There is a great deal of information about his death, memorial service, and his faith but very little about Payne. Do we really need to know what body parts were recovered or how much mail the church received after the service? If you are not interested in how the writer thinks faith transformed Payne as a person, pass this one by.
Customer Review: Where were you?
If old enough, you remember where you were when President Kennedy was assassinated. If a golf fan, you remember where you were when Payne Stewart died. I was in a restaurant having lunch with a couple of other guys. We paid only occasional attention to reports on the television behind the bar. A Lear jet was off course and expected to crash. Sadly, we soon would learn its occupants. If you read no other chapter in this excellent account of Payne Stewart's life, read the one detailing how the golfer's friends and associates learned the bad news. It's a dramatic piece of writing by Larry Guest. And it creates a bond between any reader who remembers that day and the golfer's friends in the book who talk about it. In another memorable chapter, Guest's detailed reporting makes you feel as if you're right in the aircraft during its deadly, and as yet unexplained, flight from Florida to a midwestern cornfield. This book would be a good read even for people who are not golf fans. If you do follow golf, it's a must read. If you were a Payne Stewart fan, you should have already read it.
