[3] He graduated in 2006.[8]. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. [11] In addition, he was also a member of the Rho Chapter of Beta Theta Pi. "[16], Lipsky's non-fiction book Absolutely American (2003) was written after the author spent four years living at West Point.

Willett closing in on 1st Tour win since Masters.

Kirkus, "The Art Fair," Kirkus, April 1, 1996. Outsider Fabrizio Zanotti started the final day of the Maybank Championship 6 shots off the lead, and won with an eagle at the last. [10], In May 2014, he came in second by one stroke to Chile's Felipe Aguilar in The Championship at Laguna National, which was jointly sanctioned by the Asian Tour and European Tour. Carver was surprised by the author's youth, noting in his introduction, I confess to not having read David Lipsky before this. 2Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour, CUT = missed the half-way cut [3] He was All-Big Ten first-team, GCAA PING All-Midwest Region, and All-Academic Big Ten. "T" indicates a tie for a place. [12][13][14] He played on the Web.com Tour in 2013.

[3] He had a 71.88 stroke average, the sixth-best season average in school history. Orange County National Championship presented by Knight 39, Willett closing in on 1st Tour win since Masters, Zanotti's fairytale finish denies Lipsky and Willett, Cabrera Bello retains share of Hong Kong lead, Hoey fires record 64, leads Thailand Classic. Danny Willett posted a 67 to take a three-shot lead over David Lipsky into the final round of the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur. from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with the novelist John Barth. [5] It was selected by Raymond Carver as one of the Best American Short Stories of 1986. I don't know.

[16] He ended the year in the top 150 in world rankings.[16]. [15] Lipsky won the Omega European Masters (earning a career-best €383,330 ($497,000)) and finished the Asian Tour season leading the Order of Merit, which also earned him entry into his first major (2015 Open Championship) and first WGC event (2015 WGC-Cadillac Championship) and a European Tour exemption through 2016. "[1] The work was a New York Times best-seller and a Time magazine Best Book of the Year.

[3] Lipsky had a 74.47 stroke average. Lipsky for Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, Lipsky, End of Tour and David Foster Wallace, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Lipsky&oldid=984710823, Pages with login required references or sources, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 2003 "Eleven Most Remarkable Things in Culture This Month,", This page was last edited on 21 October 2020, at 17:05. Event Tour Week Year Finish Rank Points Weight Adj.

David Lipsky World Number 166. [2] He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1983 and matriculated at Bennington College. Lipsky transferred in his sophomore year to Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude and … "Marking the Potholes, Pitfalls for Eighties Youth," Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1989. Publishers Weekly, "Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself," April 4, 2010.

[19] Lipsky sold the motion picture and television rights to the story to Disney.[20]. [3] Lipsky transferred in his sophomore year to Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude and studied with the writer John Hawkes. Englishman Lee Westwood won his second Thailand Golf Championship with a one-stroke victory over Australian Marcus Fraser and Martin Kaymer of Germany at the Amata Spring Country Club on Sunday. 1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour On December 16, 2018, Lipsky won the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club in South Africa. Michael Hoey shot an 8-under 64 Thursday to set a course record and take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Thailand Classic. Library Journal, "The Art Fair," October 1, 1996. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1983 and matriculated at Bennington College. [10], Lipsky was medalist at Asian Tour Qualifying School in January 2012. He turned professional after graduating in 2011.

Lipsky currently teaches creative writing at the M.F.A. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, Time and NPR Best Books of the Year, and have been included in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Short Stories collections. Kaiser, Menachem, "The Challenge of Writing About David Foster Wallace," The Atlantic, April 22, 2010.

[3][6][7] He was named Los Angeles all-Southern Section in 2004–06, MVP of the Rio Hondo League in 2004 and 2005, and First-team all-Los Angeles Area in 2005, while averaging a score of 36 in his last two seasons in high school. "[18] In the New York Times Book Review, David Brooks called the book "wonderfully told," praising it as both "a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read. "[23] Newsweek noted, "For readers unfamiliar with the sometimes intimidating Wallace oeuvre, Lipsky has provided a conversational entry point into the writer's thought process. Gale Reference Team, "David Lipsky," Contemporary Authors (Biography), Chicago: Thompson Gale, 2006. The book's genesis was a piece Lipsky wrote for Rolling Stone—the longest article published in that magazine since Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. [3] He had a 72.02 stroke average in the regular season, seventh-best in school season history, and ended with a career 72.97 stroke average, the fourth-best in school history behind Luke Donald, Tom Johnson, and Jess Daley. In April 2010, Lipsky published Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, about a five-day road trip with the writer David Foster Wallace. Sauriol, Patrick, "ABC Goes West Point," Variety, August 13, 2003. The work earned Lipsky comparisons to writers Michael Chabon and Harold Brodkey. [5], He lived in La Cañada Flintridge, California, and in high school at La Cañada High School, at which he was a 4.0 student, Lipsky won the 2003 Ashworth Postseason at Mission Hills, the 2004 Junior Tour Championship played at PGA West, and the Rio Hondo High School League Tournament in 2004 and 2005. Results not in chronological order before 2015. Kendall, Elaine. [10] The Los Angeles Times, while noting the book's "astonishing insights into the New York art world," concluded, "Lipsky has given his contemporaries a general autobiography, one that will fit the majority with only minor adjustments. BY YEAR. David Lipsky is letting golf be his passport to the world – and he’s been collecting stamps at an impressive clip. The novel won rave reviews and was named a Time Best Book of the Year. Clinched his second European Tour title at the beginning of the 2019 season at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in his … "[21] The Atlantic Monthly called the work, "far-reaching, insightful, very funny, profound, surprising, and awfully human";[22] at National Public Radio, Michael Schaub described the book as "a startlingly sad yet deeply funny postscript to the career of one of the most interesting American writers of all time. Also took a share of second place in the Championship at Laguna National earlier in the season and finished 58th in the Race to Dubai from just 12 events. The novelist John Gregory Brown explained, "It was kind of apparent that Lipsky might have the brightest future of anyone [here]. "[7] The book was well received upon publication, with the trade publication Booklist summarizing, "Critics loved Lipsky's short story collection";[8] the author was seen to possess "unlimited depth and range of vision,"[9] and the stories were compared to the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's odd to think that a book about Wallace could serve both the newbies and the hard-cores, but here it is. Lipsky played college golf at Northwestern University, which he attended on a partial scholarship and at which he majored in political science and history. In 2007–08, he had a number one finish with a 139 at the Notre Dame Invitational, and won the Jacksonville Dual Match with a 68.

This event was co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the Sunshine Tour. David Lipsky at the Official World Golf Ranking official site; David Lipsky on Twitter "Asian Tour Back 9 Interview with David Lipsky", October 12, 2012 "David Lipsky interviewed by Asian Tour Golf Show" (video), January 17, 2013; Last edited on 12 July 2020, at 19:19. [3], In 2009–10 Lipsky won the 2010 Big Ten individual championship with a 72-hole total of 3-under 281. He played college golf at Northwestern University. I do know I intend to pay attention from now on. David Lipsky (born July 20, 1965) is an American author. Ryder Cup star Rafa Cabrera Bello survived a major wobble in the middle of his third round to take a share of the lead into the final day of the UBS Hong Kong Open. ", His novel The Art Fair (1996), a bildungsroman composed of a number of autobiographical elements, tells the story of Richard and Joan Freely—a New York artist and her precocious son. [11] The New York Times called the novel "riveting,"[12] The New Yorker described it "a darkly comic love story,"[13] People noted, "Lipsky's portrayal of the art world is unblinking, his portrayal of the ties between parent and child deeply affecting";[14] the critic Francine Prose called the book's "Darwinian" milieu a "testament to Lipsky's skill"[15] and James Atlas wrote "the novel perfectly captures artists and dealers, the tiny gestures of cruelty that confirm or withhold status. "[27] The book was a New York Times best-seller and an NPR Best Book of the Year. Lipsky is Jewish,[2] and was born in Los Angeles, California, to Aaron Lipsky and Yon Suk Lipsky, who is from Korea. Combrey, Richard, "Reading for a Cold Winter's Night," San Francisco Chronicle, December 31, 1989. "[24] Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, described the book as "rollicking" and "compellingly real,"[25] the Wall Street Journal as "lovely,"[26] and Laura Miller in Salon called it "exhilarating. "Gratitude and backing of golfing stars help Lipsky excel on greens", "Northwestern Wildcats Men's Golf – Record Book", "Lipsky secures dramatic maiden win in Cambodia", "Golfweek: 10 to watch on Web.com Tour in 2013", "David Lipsky defeats Graeme Storm in a playoff to win the European Masters", "Asian Tour Back 9 Interview with David Lipsky", "David Lipsky interviewed by Asian Tour Golf Show", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Lipsky_(golfer)&oldid=967353744, People from La Cañada Flintridge, California, Articles with dead external links from December 2016, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 July 2020, at 19:19. Lipsky won the 2012 Handa Faldo Cambodian Classic and the 2014 Omega European Masters. He also won the 2014 Asian Tour Order of Merit. Lipsky's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Details, This American Life, and All Things Considered. [28] A film adaptation of the book, The End of the Tour, was released in July 2015, with Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg portraying Lipsky and Jason Segel portraying Wallace. Seaman, Donna, "The Art Fair," Booklist, May 15, 1996. As an undergraduate, Lipsky published his story "Three Thousand Dollars" in The New Yorker. [6], As a graduate student, Lipsky wrote the stories that would become his first book, Three Thousand Dollars (1989). There, Lipsky was an All-American, won the 2010 Big Ten individual championship, and had a career 72.97 stroke average, the fourth-best in school history behind Luke Donald, Tom Johnson, and Jess Daley. The New York Times, "The Winners," May 1, 2009. [3] Lipsky was honored as All-American, GCAA PING All-America honorable mention, All-Big Ten first team, GCAA PING All-Region, Big Ten All-Championships Team, and Academic All-Big Ten.