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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Dedication
Title
Contents
Prologue
1 The 1 Per Cent Putt
Artists v Engineers
A Change in the Odds
Advantage Lefty
2 The Good Captain
Magical Thinking
The Enigmatic Basque
Passionate Celts and Efficient Germans
3 The Bad Captain
Love’s Story
4 Why We Fall for the Captain Myth
5 When There’s No Difference Between Them and Us
The End of Geography
Set-Up, Joke
A Team With a Story Attached
6 The Gatsby Analogy
The Intoxicating Fake
The Man Who Created Sir Walter
7 Status Anxiety
Tony Jacklin’s Underdog Story
The Circus of Lights
The Throat of the Goat
8 Year Zero
False Start
The European Idea Takes Shape
Who are We? A Usable Past
9 Our Heroes Define Us
Seve’s Europe
Seve Versus America
What was Arnie Selling?
The European Incentive
10 Hunger Games
The Dan Pohl Problem
The Two Jacks
From Fat Jack to Arnie-lite
11 The Big Mo
Very Nearly the Best Captain Europe Ever Had
The Day that Changed the Captaincy
The Herd Mentality
12 What Went Right?
Why Butch and Sundance Jumped Off a Cliff
How Stories Evolve
The Failed Story of Ollie’s Hairdryer
13 The Strategy Placebo
14 What Do We Do With a Problem Like Tiger?
15 A-Pods
It Helps if You Can Fight
A Question of Authenticity
A Reliable Enough Pairing
16 Motifs and Counter-Stories
The Train to Gleneagles
17 The Team Spirit Correlation
Faith v Doubt. Faith One Up
Golf Spreads The Message
18 The Wild One
19 Time for a New Story
The Rise of the Follower
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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