In the #1 NY Times bestselling writer of A Good Walk Spoiled, a dramatic chronicle of the bitterly-fought 2016 Ryder Cup pitting a U.S. team out for revenge against the Europeans identified to keep the Glass out of American hands.

Getting into 2016, the Us citizens had lost an astounding six out of the last seven Ryder Cup matches, and tensions were working high for the showdown that took place in October, 2016 in Hazeltine, Minnesota, just days after American legend Arnold Palmer had died..Read More about The First Major: The Inside Story from the 2016 Ryder Glass What resulted was perhaps one of the most raucous and heated 3 days in the Cup’s lengthy history. Award-winning writer John Feinstein will take readers behind the scenes, providing an internal view from the dramatic tales because they unfolded: veteran Phil Mickelson’s two-year roller-coaster as he upended the American planning process and helped assemble a superb team; superstar Rory McIlroy becoming the clear-cut psychological leader of the European team, and his reasons for wanting to defeat the US team so badly this time around; the raucous matches between McIlroy and American Patrick Reed – leading to both incredible golfing, and several moments that threatened to come quickly to blows; the return of Tiger Woods not as a new player but an helper captain, and his obsession with assisting the US win – that was never the case when he was playing. John Feinstein’s classic bestseller, A Good Walk Spoiled, set the club for golf books. Now Feinstein provides his exclusive undertake the Ryder Glass, which has clearly become golf’s most intense and psychological event…it’s ‘first Major.’