Though painfully sad in places, The Payne Stewart Story is a celebration of Stewart's life and golf career, which were cut short in October 1999 in a bizarre plane crash that took the lives of Stewart and five others. It is a brilliant reported, can't-put-it-down saga of devotion, success, and heartbreak. It is a compelling story that has it all- triumph and tragedy, dedication and warmth. It is also a book full of merriment, because Payne Stewart was all about having fun.

The book is based on author Larry Guest's one hundred hours of taped interviews with Stewart's family and friends and Tour players- more than forty persons in all- as well as with pilots and government officials who investigated the bizarre plane crash that took the lives of those six unforgotten lives.