Book about our golfing hero, Maurice Flitcroft due for summer
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The
book, titled The Phantom of the Open and subtitled
Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer has been
written by Guardian journalist Scott Murray and actor/writer
Simon Farnaby.
In
qualification for the 1976 Open golf championship Maurice Gerald
Flitcroft embarked upon the worst-ever recorded round in tournament
history: over 18 holes Flitcroft shot 121 – a staggering
49 over-par.
In
some respects Maurice’s devastating round was not entirely
surprising as he was a 46-year-old crane driver from Barrow-in-Furness
who had never previously played a round of golf in his life.
Those
121 shots were to turn Flitcroft into a cult hero, but also
into a pariah, attracting the vicious opprobrium of golf’s
ruling body, who banned
him from competing for life.
Undeterred,
Flitcroft continued his attempt to win the Open for the next
14 years.
His
story – at once hilarious and heart-warming – examines
the nature of that most British of sportsmen: the glorious underdog.
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