He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers around - all while rising through the rock 'n' roll ranks, releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.Īlice Cooper, Golf Monster is an unlikely and captivating tale full of wretched excess, life-saving redemption, ghoulish eye makeup, power chords, and five irons to the center of the green. This is the story of Cooper's life, and also a story about golf. In it, he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late '70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction's coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since.Īlice Cooper, Golf Monster is Cooper's tell-all memoir. A friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit. This information about Alice Cooper, Golf Monster was first featured in 'The BookBrowse Review' - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly 'Publishing This Week' newsletter. The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons with a golf club.
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