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![]() Free Download Lost on the Pga and European Tours: A Memoir By Jocelyn Hefner 2015 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 1480824232 | EPUB | 1 MB Jocelyn Hefner grew up in an affluent family always restless, never satisfied, determined to be the best at everything, and the last one to ever give up. As she matured into a woman, all her plans were set to become an international interior designer-until she made the decision to follow her husband's dream instead of her own. In her engaging memoir, Hefner shares details from her journey as she traveled for ten years on the Pga and European tours with her professional golfer husband and became entangled in a world that came with six-thousand-dollar dresses, private jets, and a compulsion to stay by his side so no one else would. 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