“Few public men have been more obviously flawed than brash, big-mouthed, attention-seeking Payne Stewart, and a slew of his contemporaries might seem better qualified to embody that era. Yet Kevin Robbins has pulled off the impossible: By charting Stewart's herky-jerk walk from brattishness to humility, while illuminating his play as the last gasp of a golf now gone forever, he has revealed in his subject a largeness, a grace, that even Stewart never dreamed he had. So buy in—and buckle up. Robbins' meticulously reported work on Stewart's last hours stands as some of the finest writing on flight—both its beauty and horrors—published in years.”

—S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated senior writer, author of Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football and an American Town and Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America

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“Around Payne’s Stewart’s life, and death, mystique has grown. Kevin Robbins makes it all so lucid and real. There’s brilliant reporting here, great humanity,  and writing as memorably stylish as Stewart’s famed plus fours. Reading this, the gallery will roar.”

—Gary M. Pomerantz, author of The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

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"Riveting and heartbreaking, this excellent biography is sure to please." 

—Publishers Weekly

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"Robbins delves convincingly into the agonizing nitty-gritty of what it takes to miss one less fairway per round, convert one more up-and-down and make one more crucial putt—the tiny improvements that spell the difference between winning a tournament and finishing in the middle of the pack."

—John Paul Newport, The Wall Street Journal

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"In many ways, Stewart was an enigma. Robbins captures his essence with incisive reporting and beautiful writing." 

—Damon Hack, Golf Channel