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Zinger

Zinger
By Paul Azinger with Ken Abraham
HarperCollins. 223 pages. £16.99
ISBN 0551 03049 6

Zinger is an easy-to-read story of one of the world's top golfing heroes, Paul Azinger. He needed to find greater strength to fight cancer than he ever needed in achieving his 11 major victories on the golf course.
The 33 year-old 1993 PGA champion talks openly about his career, the inside stories of his greatest games, the faith that helped him come through lymphoma, his return to world-class golf and his new priorities for the future.
While brief sketches of personal life are given, much of the first 150-plus pages are details of many great golf tournaments. The 1993 trauma of diagnosis, chemotherapy and radiation treatment are then painfully and honestly recounted. 'At 33 sitting on top of the world, death was staring me in the face and I was downright scared' (p.170).
Returning to golf, his testimony and encouragement (in the last seven pages) are a blessing to read. Such a shame that only so little of the book is on this aspect. Blessed with a Christian wife and two girls, Paul Azinger has many chapters yet to write for the glory of God.
'Even though it's great to be called a PGA tour player, and it's probably even greater to be called PGA champion, no greater gift is mine than to be called a child of God, because I place my trust in Jesus Christ' (p. 216).
Zinger would make an excellent present for golf-lovers, especially the unsaved!

David Steere