Some years just seem to stick out in our collective memory.
The events and the people combine to make that year extra special. Tiger Woods' 2000 will go down as one of those years. 1960 was another special year for golf. To set the events of the book in historical context, Sampson takes the reader back to that era in the introduction. He notes that Dwight D. Eisenhower, president from 1953 to 1961, played golf some 800 times while in office.