Zinger: A Champion's Story of Determination, Courage, and Charging Back

by Paul Azinger, Ken Abraham

The winner of the 1993 PGA Championship at Inverness chronicles his fight with cancer, which involved painful chemotherapy treatments and fear for his life, and recounts his successful return to the green. Reprint.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Matthew Stetz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was a good book. Good names. Good stories. Talked about getting the cancer and coming back from it to win. Always been a big fan of Azinger. I’m captaining that Ryder Cup winning team was a top 5 golf watching moment for me.

[Alan Livingston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paul Azinger deserves a place alongside the near-greats of the game of golf. If you’re close to the game, you may already know that, but if you don’t or if you’re not so familiar with him, give this circa-mid ‘90’s book a chance. A few years before his best friend and his agent, Payne Stewart and Robert Fraley, died together in a tragic plane crash, before Azinger’s later captaincy of the US Ryder Cup team, this book does more than tell about his career to that point. It goes beyond to tell what it was like to, in the midst of career success he was enjoying, to be diagnosed with cancer, to fight it, and come out the other side. He describes how he faced the fear, how he made the commitment to deal with it, and how his faith played a part in what happened. I felt his book is very nearly 5-star.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It is not just about his battle with Cancer, it has many stories about how he got on tour, meeting his wife, renewing his faith, the Ryder Cup and Seve and much more. The cancer battle is woven through the book leading up to winning the battle. Great book for any golf fan.

[Glenda Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used to work for Paul Azinger, so I am biased! Loved the book especially since I lived through this time with Paul and his family.

[Karola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great autobiography of a golfer and how his faith got him through it all.

[Mat Rueter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I knew I needed help, and I wanted to change.

[Tim Duff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book on golfer Paul Azinger's career and defeat of cancer. Paul points out how cancer drew him closer to God through Jesus Christ and also enabled him to be a comfort to others going through the cancer diagnosis.