This Golfing Life

Michael Bamberger is the guy whose awesome respect for the integrity of the game forced him, against his better judgment, to abandon his role as a sports reporter and snitch on Michelle Wie at the 2005 Samsung World Championship. On her third round, Wie inadvertently dropped her ball from an unplayable lie one squinchteenth of a percent closer to the 7th hole cup than allowed. Bamberger turned her in -- however, he did so a day AFTER she signed her round 3 scorecard, when the mistake could no longer be rectified. In consequence, the 16-year-old Wie was disqualified from her first tournament as a professional. If you'd like to get inside Bamberger's head and see what makes him tick, by all means read this book instead of removing it and microwaving in a bun, as one fan has suggested.