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 Known as “Jake” to his fans, the Oregon native has been entertaining galleries for years with an amiable personality on the course and his hilarious impressions off it. Jacobsen also is on two Golf Channel shows, plays in a band and designs courses with teacher and business partner Jim Hardy. In the past couple of years, however, Jacobsen has let his clubs do the talking again. Since joining the Champions Tour in 2004 he has won two majors. Jacobsen has a lot of stories to tell, and he does just that in the humorous and surprisingly bawdy “Embedded Balls,” a book that examines his life on and off the course. There are dozens of memorable moments, but perhaps the most bittersweet and complex tale involves Jacobsen’s decision to, while resting his sore back, loan caddie Mike “Fluff” Cowan to a young upstart named Tiger Woods in 1996. It didn’t take long for Cowan to jump ship and, well, you know the rest. Although Jacobsen confesses that the experience “hit [him] hard” and that he “felt like [he’d] been punched in the stomach,” he realized that Cowan was going to make a lot more money with Woods and that he couldn’t blame his former caddie. Plenty of great stories follow, and while you get the sense that Jacobsen’s co-author, Jack Sheehan, did most of the heavy lifting, you can’t deny that when Jacobsen writes that John Daly “adds a lot of energy to the entire package of the PGA Tour,” he may also be writing about himself. |
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