The Playing Lesson

In the tradition of George Plimpton’s classic works of participatory journalism, celebrated golf writer Michael Bamberger returns to his roots and plays alongside the pros on the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, the DP World Tour, the Champions Tour, the Dakotas Tour, the LIV Golf Tour, and elsewhere to give readers the deepest portrait possible of what it’s like to play at the highest level of the sport today.

Michael Bamberger was born in Patchogue, New York, in 1960. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, he worked as a newspaper reporter, first for The Vineyard Gazette, later for The Philadelphia Inquirer. After twenty-two years at Sports Illustrated, he is now a senior writer at Golf.com. His books include To the Linksland, Men in Green, The Ball in the Air, and The Playing Lesson. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Christine.