Off The Fairway

ISBN: 1480085448

Author: Bryan, Jerry

Condition: New

Product Description Top-flight professional golfers need three things to succeed on the PGA Tour: talent, desire, and determination. Tour winner Billy Edwards added a fourth. Cocaine. Suspensions, personal disasters, and legal nightmares did nothing to debunk Billys belief that without that fourth element, he would never succeed. But competing on the tour and having a drug addiction were two worlds that were not both sustainable. Something had to giveand many believed it would be his career. What goes through the mind of a professional athlete while they are competing on the largest stage? And how do they do this while under then influence and in denial? How can anyone get close enough to find out to even offer help when walls of resistance carefully erected and painstakingly nurtured keeps everyone at bay? Two different wives could not do it. Suspensions from the tour couldnt. Even being arrested could not stop Billy from destroying himself. Only one person had the access and the trust to accomplish what no one else could. Get inside the ropes and inside the head of a talented but troubled athlete as he attempts to negotiate a minefield of his own making. Will his talent and his mind power succeed over the dark urges residing in his head, or will feeding the beast force him off the touror kill him? About the Author Jerry Bryan fell in love with golf at the tender age of six when he was left accidentally at a family picnic and wound up at the driving range next door. This love affair continues to this day, some forty-plus years later, as he plays regularly and sports a single-digit handicap. While having never played golf professionally, Jerry draws on his experiences from amateur golf competitions in his younger years to give readers a glimpse into the mind of a player in a competitive environment. Jerry actively writes in his blog, Legend In My Spare Time, where he muses on subjects ranging from politics and sports to punctuation and the inanity of the human condition. He has also authored a collection of short stories and is a regular contributor to various web sites. Jerry resides in Miami, Florida.