I just finished reading The Match. What surprises me in this thread is that many of the posters want to put this book into the realm of "historical fiction," when the book seems to be the opposite. The "history" part seems to be more fictitious than the actual plot (the match). Are there any known inaccuracies concerning the match itself?
I did not like the Appendix about Cypress Point and MacKenzie because I had the feeling Frost didn't really know what he was talking about. However, the match itself was intriguing, and the descriptions of the holes seemed rather insightful for the most part, although I've never been to CPC.
I guess my feelings about the book are somewhat along the lines of:
As far as the Greatest Game is concerned, the story is just so compelling that I felt Frost performed a service just by retelling it.
That being said, it was unfortunate that I couldn't trust many of the other parts of the book.