
Rainmaker
Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money Grab Explosion of Golf from Tiger to LIV and Beyond
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Hughes Norton
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From his work with Tiger Woods and Greg Norman to his thoughts on golf’s current money-grab era, golf superagent Hughes Norton presents a rollicking tell-all that “takes you inside the room with some of golf’s biggest personalities for some never-before-heard stories” (Chris Solomon, host of No Laying Up).
When twenty-one-year-old Tiger Woods stunned the world by winning The Masters by a mind-blowing twelve strokes, the first thing he did was embrace the three most important people in his life: his father, his mother, and Hughes Norton.
At the peak of his career, agent Norton earned a million-dollar salary, flew to all corners of the world in first class, and enjoyed a lifestyle nearly as lavish as his A-list clients. That dizzying success, however, came at a high price. The seventy-hour work weeks, constant travel, and intense pressure—both from his players and their corporate partners—took Norton away from his family and ultimately led to divorce. At the same time, to protect his players and his career, he found himself making ethical and moral choices he would later regret. Soon, he realized he had made as many enemies as friends.
Now, in Rainmaker, Norton offers “the most amazing ‘behind the curtain’ view ever written about the world of sports management” (Jim Nantz, CBS Sports). With exclusive insights, he discusses what it was like being Tiger’s first agent, his time representing the narcissistic Greg Norman, and shining a bright light on his sudden—and controversial—ouster as the head of IMG’s Golf Division—a juggernaut he helped build. This is an engaging and unforgettable memoir that explores golf as never before.
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In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life - married to a Swedish beauty and the father of two young children. Winner of 14 major golf championships and 79 PGA Tour events, Woods was the first billion-dollar athlete, earning more than $100 million a year in endorsements from the likes of Nike, Gillette, AT&T, and Gatorade. But it was all a carefully crafted illusion. As it turned out, Woods had been living a double life for years.
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Schadenfreude For Non-Fans
- By Dubi on 02-16-19
By: Jeff Benedict, and others
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What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School
- Notes from a Street-Smart Executive
- By: Mark H. McCormack
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Mark H. McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer and less than a thousand dollars, he started International Management Group and, over a four-decade period, built the company into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with offices in more than forty countries. To this day, McCormack’s business classic remains a must for executives and managers at every level.
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Omg this is a game changer
- By MrBrooksMixing LLC on 12-04-24
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Drive
- The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods
- By: Bob Harig
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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In April of 1997, the world of golf was forever changed. At the age of 21, a young Tiger Woods won the most prestigious golf tournament in the world, the Masters, by a record of 12 strokes. Woods became the youngest golfer ever to win the Masters and the first African or Asian-American player to win a major. History had been made—and would continue to be made over the next 15 years.
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Absolutely terrible
- By Mark on 04-24-24
By: Bob Harig
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Together We Roared
- Alongside Tiger for His Epic Twelve-Year, Thirteen-Majors Run
- By: Steve Williams, Evin Priest
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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When Tiger Woods went on an extraordinary majors run between 1999 and 2008, one man stood at his side: his caddie Steve Williams. Together Steve and Tiger dominated the PGA Tour and won an astonishing 13 major championships, their sights set on breaking Jack Nicklaus’s record 18 majors. Before they could overtake Nicklaus, however, their partnership ended abruptly, and a 12-year period without talking began. Years later, the two reconnected. Together We Roared offers an inside look at what it is like to ride alongside greatness.
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Really cool perspective.
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-25
By: Steve Williams, and others
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A Course Called America
- Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
- By: Tom Coyne
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest golf experience, playing every course to ever host a US Open, along with more than two hundred hidden gems and heavyweights, visiting all fifty states to find a better understanding of his home country and countrymen. Coyne’s journey begins where the US Open and US Amateur got their start, historic Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
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The Golf was good but I could’ve done without the liberal preachiness.
- By DaryL K. Boe on 07-15-21
By: Tom Coyne
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To the Linksland (30th Anniversary Edition)
- By: Michael Bamberger
- Narrated by: Michael Bamberger
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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To the Linksland is the captivating memoir of Bamberger’s golfing pilgrimage/extended honeymoon. From an all-night caddie bus on the back roads of southern Europe to Stark’s secret six-hole course in the Scottish Highlands, Bamberger takes you on a journey into the heart of golf. This thirtieth-anniversary edition of Bamberger’s classic, lyrical tale of discovery is bookended with a new introduction by Michael Murphy and a new afterword by Bamberger.
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Why golf?
- By Cyril Muller on 09-20-24
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Tiger & Phil
- Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry
- By: Bob Harig
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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Bob Harig's Tiger & Phil provides an in-depth chronicle of the decades-long rivalry that drove the success of golf's two biggest stars, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
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Unbalanced but informative
- By Emily Libby on 05-15-22
By: Bob Harig
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The Tiger Slam
- The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played (Tiger Woods in 2000–2001)
- By: Kevin Cook
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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In 1997, as every schoolchild knows, Tiger Woods won the Masters by the largest margin in history, becoming the first Black player to win a major championship. Four years later, the world watches with breathless anticipation as he returns to Augusta National, aiming for a milestone no other golfer has ever achieved: four professional Grand Slam triumphs in a row. In The Tiger Slam, Kevin Cook delivers a gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories that left Woods’s rivals scrambling to keep up.
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Good Review of Tiger ‘00-01
- By Paul on 03-30-25
By: Kevin Cook
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Golf Beneath the Surface
- The New Science of Golf Psychology
- By: Raymond Prior
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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An essential resource for golfers who want to play a smarter, more fulfilling game on the green.
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worth it in so many ways.
- By Jeff on 03-18-25
By: Raymond Prior
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The Nature of the Game
- Links Golf at Bandon Dunes and Far Beyond
- By: Mike Keiser, Stephen Goodwin
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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An avid golfer with a demanding career in the greeting card business, Mike Keiser found a new calling on the authentic links courses of Scotland and Ireland. Seized by the beauty of the landscape and the holes running through it, he determined this was how golf was meant to be: inclusive, not private; played on foot, not riding a cart; the courses natural, neither lavish nor contrived. Vowing to transplant this experience to the States, Keiser entered the golf business and, ignoring the advice of experts, built a true links course in Oregon.
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Fantastic book, well written and narrated
- By AVJ on 11-24-23
By: Mike Keiser, and others
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LIV and Let Die
- The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf
- By: Alan Shipnuck
- Narrated by: Alan Shipnuck
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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In LIV and Let Die, Shipnuck delivers fly-on-the-wall reporting from the yachts where LIV was hatched and within the corridors of power as the PGA Tour flailed to fend off the threat. Shipnuck has traveled seamlessly between both tours—having countless conversations with players, caddies, CEOs, agents, financiers, lawyers, flaks, fans, and Instagramming wives—to deliver a no-holds-barred account of the most chaotic moment in golf history. Anyone who has a stake in professional golf lined up for an interview with Shipnuck—because they knew everyone else was talking to him, too.
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Golf, NOT politics. Please.
- By Jordan M. Lamb on 06-19-24
By: Alan Shipnuck
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How I Play Golf
- By: Tiger Woods
- Narrated by: Walter Franks
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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For the first time, champion Tiger Woods reveals the five secrets to his amazing success - a combination of physical, metaphysical and psychological practices he uses daily to keep his game in top shape.
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Has some value
- By Jared on 02-18-11
By: Tiger Woods
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- Barry C. Knott
- 08-17-24
Details
The details were very interesting and included many aspects of sports agency of which I was not aware.
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- Harold Oliver
- 05-23-24
Amazing insights into the PGA and sports agents.
Couldn't stop listening. Enjoyed beginning to end. Entertaining and enlightening about the happenings of the PGA and the life of a sports agent.
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- ron trengove
- 08-19-24
Fantastic Insight
In depth look into the business and the personalities of golf from a unique perspective.
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- Hebern
- 04-24-24
Norton represented all the big names in golf
Hughes Norton was a sports agent. For years he headed up the golf division at Mark McCormack’s company, IMG. McCormack started the company in the 1960s. His first three clients were Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. At the time they were the top 3 players in the world. Norton began with the company in the early days and would remain with them until the mid 1990s. In that time he would go from representing Palmer to Greg Norman to Tiger Woods as well as most of the game’s other top stars.
This is a very interesting book if you are into golf or money. It has inside information about the good and the bad of all the players. It’s widely reported that Tiger is a great player but not that good of a person. From this book it sounds like Norman falls into the same category. It is obvious that Norton can’t stand Norman as a person. One thing that was very interesting, but concerning at the same time was the amount of financial details he tells about each player. As a lawyer, I’m used to not revealing that to anyone about my clients. Norton is not a lawyer and evidently felt no obligation to keep such things confidential. On a few things Norton is not very self aware and makes himself sound worse than he intends, even though it is supposed to be a warts and all book. Overall, I’d highly recommend it to golfers.
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- K N
- 12-28-24
Excellent read
Both a great golf story but also of someone who was a grinder in their field showing the ups and downs of a career in a sport that has evolved so much in some ways, but also in many, have stayed the same for decades
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- Mark
- 03-29-24
Awesome read if you like golf or money
If you like to play or watch golf this is a great read. I started listening to this book on March 26 and finished early on the 27th. I have followed golf for 50 years and had no idea of all the money behind the scenes which was made possible by the agents working for the players. Hughes Norton was a top agent and represented clients such as Curtis Strange, Greg Norman and Tiger Woods as well as multiple others. The money that Hughes made for these players through appearance fees and endorsements is beyond belief. Hughes is the narrator and does a tremendous job. You will love this book.
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- Jim D.
- 06-20-24
Great presentation
I liked the history of the game. The inertial workings of IMG. Great job. I liked the history of our great game of golf.
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- dennis lynch
- 08-09-24
story
good story could have been a touch more in-depth, but what do I know, I am a fan not a critic.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-08-24
Norton!
A transparent, behind-the-scenes insight into the world of the business of professional golf. Norton presents an intricate portrayal of the mechanisms and duality of being an agent at the highest level. His story is one of hubris and humility. Highly recommend.
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- Kalimba
- 09-25-24
What a story!!!
This was an absolute pleasure to listen to, I'm a huge fan of golf and listening to how it all is and how it works on a professional level is fascinating. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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