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Davis Love III is the player Tiger Woods defeated in a dramatic playoff to win his first pro tournament at the Las Vegas Invitational earlier this year. In Every Shot I Take: Lessons Learned About Golf, Life, and a Father's Love, Love recounts his own golf career to date-particularly the influence of his father, a renowned Golf Digest instructor who died in a plane crash in 1988.

Much of the instructional material presented here has been culled from previously unpublished material that the elder Love had written over the years and packed away. Besides the basics, Love thinks back on the guidance and support his father provided for him as he pursued his goal of becoming a professional golfer. Careful not to push his son to play the game, Davis Love, Jr. waited until his son asked him for help before assuming control of his son's golf education. The impressions of family and friends round out this account.