The Flem Cup
A Story of Friendship, Love and Redemption
by Scott Dow
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Pub Date Apr 05 2015 | Archive Date Aug 04 2015
Smith Publicity | Indaruf Publishing
Description
The Flem Cup is the remarkable true story of a great friendship, a trans-Atlantic team golf match and the providential hand of God.
The name of the event said it all: a tribute to the man whose idea it was as well as a tongue-in-cheek testament to the quality of play, and, for 5 years, teams from the U.S. and England collided in an intense competition punctuated by hilarious off-course antics in a battle for the coveted trophy - an antique, hand-blown glass spittoon. When cancer struck, though, a search for answers to life’s bigger questions set the stage for an unexpected journey into discovering God’s grace and redemptive love.
Author Scott Dow felt compelled to share this amazing story about his dear friend Ian Jennings and their journey together through tragedy and loss to hope and redemption. From the whimsical website that documented every detail to the characters involved to the events that transpired during those years, God’s grace was at work every step of the way and, in the end, lives were changed.
Tears of laughter and sadness, great joy and tragic loss are all found in the pages of The Flem Cup. Readers will find a great golf story wrapped inside an even greater story of hope and redemption.
The name of the event said it all: a tribute to the man whose idea it was as well as a tongue-in-cheek testament to the quality of play, and, for 5 years, teams from the U.S. and England collided in an intense competition punctuated by hilarious off-course antics in a battle for the coveted trophy - an antique, hand-blown glass spittoon. When cancer struck, though, a search for answers to life’s bigger questions set the stage for an unexpected journey into discovering God’s grace and redemptive love.
Author Scott Dow felt compelled to share this amazing story about his dear friend Ian Jennings and their journey together through tragedy and loss to hope and redemption. From the whimsical website that documented every detail to the characters involved to the events that transpired during those years, God’s grace was at work every step of the way and, in the end, lives were changed.
Tears of laughter and sadness, great joy and tragic loss are all found in the pages of The Flem Cup. Readers will find a great golf story wrapped inside an even greater story of hope and redemption.
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Author is available for interviews, blog tours, autographed book giveaways, contests, and book club discussions.
Author is available for interviews, blog tours, autographed book giveaways, contests, and book club discussions.
Advance Praise
…excellent book about friendship, love and redemption…this book is a must read for any ardent golfer. ~A Pietracatella, Amazon reviewer
An emotional roller coaster from start to finish..!! At times heartwarming, at others gut-wrenching, the story twists & turns from Myrtle Beach NC to the tiny, sleepy village of Spinkhill in the UK. A tale of 5 years of golf, fun, frolics, illness & incredible friendships. ~G.Matthews
An emotional roller coaster from start to finish..!! At times heartwarming, at others gut-wrenching, the story twists & turns from Myrtle Beach NC to the tiny, sleepy village of Spinkhill in the UK. A tale of 5 years of golf, fun, frolics, illness & incredible friendships. ~G.Matthews
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Author Bio:
I was born in 1959, growing up about 25 miles west of lower Manhattan in Madison Borough, an awesome place to grow up. Early on, I developed a great love of sports and competition but my first love was baseball, a sport I played competitively in high school, at Bucknell University and right on through my 20s and into his 30s in men's leagues like the Morris County Majors and the Met League. Now, at an older age, my active sports pursuits have been reduced to golf, curling, basketball (I try...) and recovering from the various maladies those activities incur.
Graduating from Bucknell with a BSME in the requisite 4 years in 1981, I embarked on an entirely undistinguished engineering career until, around 1990, I stumbled across the field of vibration analysis on machinery. Having found something that piqued my interest, by 1993 I was the co-owner of a small business that specialized in the technology. I developed training materials and classes so unique and effective that they resulted in invitations to deliver them in exotic locales such as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and England. Teaching is something I love and continue to do.
Although my engineer's brain is governed by logic and reason, I'm governed to at least the same degree by my creative and fun-loving side. My training classes were set up as games that force students to think their way through challenging problems while illustrating important aspects of a complex technology. I also love music, have played the guitar for more than 20 years and love to craft the written word.
The Flem Cup, my first and probably only novel-length book, is my memoir of a remarkable story of a great friendship, an extraordinary annual golf event, the tragedy of cancer and, ultimately, a journey that led me to God's grace and redemptive love. It is a story that I was blessed to be an integral part of, a story that has become more and more remarkable as it has receded into the past, in large part due to the numerous sub-plots running through the event that all had to come together to make it what it ended up being.
I was born in 1959, growing up about 25 miles west of lower Manhattan in Madison Borough, an awesome place to grow up. Early on, I developed a great love of sports and competition but my first love was baseball, a sport I played competitively in high school, at Bucknell University and right on through my 20s and into his 30s in men's leagues like the Morris County Majors and the Met League. Now, at an older age, my active sports pursuits have been reduced to golf, curling, basketball (I try...) and recovering from the various maladies those activities incur.
Graduating from Bucknell with a BSME in the requisite 4 years in 1981, I embarked on an entirely undistinguished engineering career until, around 1990, I stumbled across the field of vibration analysis on machinery. Having found something that piqued my interest, by 1993 I was the co-owner of a small business that specialized in the technology. I developed training materials and classes so unique and effective that they resulted in invitations to deliver them in exotic locales such as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and England. Teaching is something I love and continue to do.
Although my engineer's brain is governed by logic and reason, I'm governed to at least the same degree by my creative and fun-loving side. My training classes were set up as games that force students to think their way through challenging problems while illustrating important aspects of a complex technology. I also love music, have played the guitar for more than 20 years and love to craft the written word.
The Flem Cup, my first and probably only novel-length book, is my memoir of a remarkable story of a great friendship, an extraordinary annual golf event, the tragedy of cancer and, ultimately, a journey that led me to God's grace and redemptive love. It is a story that I was blessed to be an integral part of, a story that has become more and more remarkable as it has receded into the past, in large part due to the numerous sub-plots running through the event that all had to come together to make it what it ended up being.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780692376812 |
| PRICE | $15.99 (USD) |
