Alan Shipnuck Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

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Alan Shipnuck is a published American author and sportswriter, known for specializing in golf.

He also is a content creator and a partner for the Fire Pit Collective. He has also been a senior writer at Golf Magazine and Sports Illustrated. He grew up in Salinas, California. His father was an economics professor and his mother served on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors.

Sports was a large part of his life growing up, as he read about sports and grew up playing sports. He put these passions together by editing the junior high newspaper and the high school yearbook, also working as a cart boy at the golf in the summer. He started out in journalism while answering an ad in the paper that wanted sports writers, a junior in high school at the time.

Shipnuck was an undergrad at UCLA while corresponding with the managing editor of SI. He would then get an internship in 1994. He took a leave of absence from UCLA so that he could work on the Golf Plus section out of the SI headquarters in NYC. He would get bylines and then went back to UCLA to get his communications degree. He was hired in 1996 at Sports Illustrated as its youngest staff writer in history.

The author has covered many different major championships in golf. He has also written many cover stories, including pieces on Brett Favre and Michael Phelps. He left Sports Illustrated in 2018 to become part of Golf Magazine. He would win a first-place citation for the twelfth time at the Golf Writers Association of America at their annual awards contest. He would leave Golf Magazine in 2021 to become partner and executive editor at the Fire Pit Collective, a media company.

His first book was released by Simon & Schuster in 2001. It was titled Bud, Sweat, & Tees. In 2002, the protagonist won the PGA Championship, sparking the book to become a national bestseller. He has also written The Battle for Augusta National, a revisionist club history of the Masters’ home and the controversy around the all-male membership. He also has contributed to Swinging From My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star and co-wrote The Swinger with Michael Bamberger, which became a bestseller.

Shipnuck has also written a coffee table book released in 2017 that was titled Monterey Peninsula Country Club: A Complete History. He also co-wrote The Best Is Yet To Come with Harriet Diamond, her 2018 memoir. He also released a book in 2022 called Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar.

Alan resides in Carmel, California. He has appeared as himself on ESPN SportsCentury, ESPN 25: Who’s #1?, Callaway Live, Patriot Games: When the Ryder Cup Became the Ryder Cup, Tiger, and The Record with Greta Van Susteren.

Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Powerful Superstar is a 2022 book from Alan Shipnuck. Check out the bestseller that hit the tops of the lists on the New York Times that The Washington post called ‘thoroughly engaging’!

This is the biography of Phil Mickelson, the golf champion who has had a colorful life. He has been one of the top golfers in the world for over three decades and one of the most interesting people in the sports world. His longevity has even been displayed at the 2021 PGA Championship. That was when he was the oldest player in the history of playing to win a major championship.

A life with ups, downs, controversies, and more, this is a full picture of Mickelson, the man who built an empire on being a profession, who was a husband to his wife who was followed by rumors, a gambler with difficulty leaving the table, and more.

The book also covers his rival Tiger Woods, the robotic and calm foil to Mickelson’s outgoing affable showman nature who forces fans to either love him or hate him. Touring together earlier, Mickelson did not have the same focus and attention to detail, but Phil has also managed to maintain his career and sail on even as Tiger became embroiled in controversy and scandal.

This is an inside look at much of Mickelson’s life and career, from his losses in gambling to the breakup between Phil and his caddie, the Saudi Golf league that he backed up to leverage the PGA Tour, and more, as well as his random acts of generosity and kindness. An interesting read whether you are a fan of Phil and know him from the golf world or not!

LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of The War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is a 2023 book from Alan Shipnuck that is all about the battle going on for the professional golf world’s soul, all between the LIV Golf League and the PGA Tour.

The golf world is embroiled in scandal and warring with each other. The Saudi-funded LIV Golf League is competing against the PGA Tour, trying to usurp it. The conflict made Mickelson and other golfers into villains in real time for their participation in this.

This is the story told with reporting done fly on the wall style on the yachts were LIV was first created and in the power corridors as the PGA Tour was trying to fend off a very real threat.

Shipnuck takes the reader between both of the tours, having different conversations with everyone from fans to CEOs to agents, caddies, financiers, players, and more to show every angle of one of the most chaotic moments in the history of golf.

If you love professional golf, you will be entranced by this story! In the meantime, he paints pictures of many people from Donald Trump to Tiger Woods to Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Jack Nicklaus, and more.

LIV Golf has the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia behind it and turns the golf game on its head with the riches. However, the Human Rights Watch deems it an effort to distract from human rights abuses through events that celebrate human achievement.

Dealing with morality and more, Shipnuck provides an intensive account of one of the most intriguing events to ever take place in the golf world. Get a copy and follow along on the ride for yourself!