# The Phantom of the Open

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- Book: [The Phantom of the Open](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-a-murray/the-phantom-of-the-open) ([The Phantom of the Open.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-a-murray/the-phantom-of-the-open.md))
- Authors: [Scott A Murray](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-a-murray), [Simon Farnaby](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-farnaby)
- Publisher: yellow_jersey
- ISBN: 978-02-2408-317-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2011-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer When 46-year-old crane driver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way into the Open - having never before played a round of golf in his life - he ran up a record-worst score of 121. The sport's ruling classes banned him for life. Maurice didn't take it lying down. In a hilarious game of cat-and-mouse with The Man, he entered tournaments again - and again, and again - using increasingly ludicrous pseudonyms such as Gene Pacecki, Arnold Palmtree and Count Manfred von Hoffmanstel (more often than not disguised by a fake moustache). In doing so, he sent the authorities into apoplexy, and won the hearts of fans from Muirfield to Michigan, becoming arguably the most popular - and certainly the bravest - sporting underdog the world has ever known