The real story of Moe Norman's life ought to be sufficient basis for an informative and entertaining book. He was quite a character, and the profiles published in the 1950s and 1960s that can be found with a little online research are fascinating. It's very disturbing that when his game was peaking in 1957, both the Royal Canadian Golf Association and the Canadian PGA dealt with him so callously. In ways the treatment Moe received was remarkably similar to how the USGA cut down the US amateur star Harvie Ward the same year. Coincidently, Moe and Harvie were paired together in the first round of the 1956 Masters, which a third amateur star, Ken Venturi, almost won.However, what this book presents is inexcusable. It dwells on two incidents that rigorous research of historical accounts shows most likely did not happen: 1) his forced withdrawal at the 1956 Masters due to overzealous practice the night before the third round after being given a lesson by Sam Snead, and 2) an alleged incident of bullying while playing on the PGA tour in 1960. *SPOILER ALERT* The weight of the evidence is Moe was dissatisfied with his 36-hole score at the 1956 Masters and decided to withdraw because he was very short of money: he had told his second round playing partner Bob Rosburg that he didn't have enough to stay the final two days. A reporter who had been following Moe since the Azalea Invitation amateur championship in Charleston a couple weeks before wrote in his Sunday column that nobody knew why he had "vanished," but noted Moe had nearly withdrawn in Charleston because he was unhappy with his midway score. *SPOILER ALERT* As for the bullying, maybe somebody said mean things to Moe at a tournament, but this book's depiction of the incident is wildly over the top and its portrayal of the impact on Moe is grotesque. This "novel" claims that immediately following the confrontation Norman quit competitive golf for two years and during that period contemplated suicide. In fact, Moe played the next PGA tour event the following week at Pensacola and had a good finish. He was interviewed after Pensacola (his last event in the US that season) and expressed hope that he could return to the tour the following year if he could find a sponsor. Although he never did return, newspaper accounts show he continued competing in Canada without interruption. When asked in the years that followed why he hadn't returned to the US, he routinely answered that nobody would sponsor him unless he changed his ways, which he was unwilling to do.