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Author: Barry Johnston Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1848946848 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Building on the huge success of THE WIT OF CRICKET, this is a collection of the funniest golf anecdotes, jokes and stories. A bumper bag of humorous anecdotes and amusing tales from golf's best-loved personalities that proves golf is a funny old game – birdies, bunkers and all! Read hilarious stories covering everything from caddies to the clubhouse by the game's all-time great characters, including Peter Alliss, Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Sam Torrance and Ian Woosnam. Enjoy the humour of legendary players such as Seve Ballesteros, Tony Jacklin, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Tiger Woods, as they share the funny side of playing in the Open Championship and the Ryder Cup. Laugh-out-loud at celebrity golfers Bruce Forsyth and Michael Parkinson's rib-tickling anecdotes about pro-am tournaments and club golf. THE WIT OF GOLF is a wonderful collection of jokes, stories and anecdotes, perfect for any golf fan.
Author: Barry Johnston Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1848946848 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Building on the huge success of THE WIT OF CRICKET, this is a collection of the funniest golf anecdotes, jokes and stories. A bumper bag of humorous anecdotes and amusing tales from golf's best-loved personalities that proves golf is a funny old game – birdies, bunkers and all! Read hilarious stories covering everything from caddies to the clubhouse by the game's all-time great characters, including Peter Alliss, Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Sam Torrance and Ian Woosnam. Enjoy the humour of legendary players such as Seve Ballesteros, Tony Jacklin, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Tiger Woods, as they share the funny side of playing in the Open Championship and the Ryder Cup. Laugh-out-loud at celebrity golfers Bruce Forsyth and Michael Parkinson's rib-tickling anecdotes about pro-am tournaments and club golf. THE WIT OF GOLF is a wonderful collection of jokes, stories and anecdotes, perfect for any golf fan.
Author: Lou Romano Publisher: ISBN: 9780972916004 Category : Golf Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Let me start out by letting you know that Golf Wit and Wisdom is not going to teach you how to play this wonderful game called Golf. What I hope to accomplish is to give the reader a better understanding of some of the intangibles of golf that they might not know about. For instance, there will be chapters devoted to Golf History, Golf Balls, Golf Clubs and Golf Etiquette. My last chapter will contain a glossary of commonly used golf terminology with a little added commentary. I have also included some illustrations demonstrating how to repair ball marks on the green and a table on how far average golfers, men and women, are able to hit a golf ball for each club. The information is presented in such a way that golfers of all ages and ability will find that Golf Wit and Wisdom, as the title implies, is very informative, easy to read and understand, light hearted and thoroughly enjoyable. Don't be too surprised if you find yourself laughing out loud as you read this book. I can assure you that Golf Wit and Wisdom is not just another "how to" golf book.
Author: Rick Reilly Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0306924943 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 242
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A beloved New York Times bestselling author and golf aficionado shares his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in this cavalcade of original pieces about why we love the sport, now featuring three additional new pieces. This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an 11-year prison stint. We learn how a man on his third heart nearly won the U.S. Open, how a Vietnam POW saved his life playing 18 holes a day in his tiny cell, and about the course that's absolutely free. Reilly mines all of the game’s quirky traditions—from the shot of bourbon you take before you tee off at Peyton Manning’s course, to the way the starter at St. Andrews announces to your group (and the hundreds of tourists watching), “You’re on the first tee, gentlemen.” He means that quite literally: St. Andrews has the first tee ever invented. We’ll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that's underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators; not to mention Reilly’s attempt to play the most mini-golf holes in one day. Reilly expounds on all the great figures in the game, from Phil Mickelson to Bobby Jones to the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods. He explains why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau unless we hate genius, the greatest upset in women’s golf history, and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before, and the great fun of being Jim Nantz. Connecting it all will be the story of Reilly’s own personal journey through the game, especially as it connects to his tumultuous relationship with his father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. This is Reilly’s valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without. **The Sports Librarian’s Best of 2022 – Sports Books**
Author: Paul Laubach Publisher: Elevate Publishing ISBN: 1937498727 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 428
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In June 2010, Paul Laubach made the unfortunate decision to play all of the top 100 golf courses available to the public, according to Golf Magazine. Spread over 45 months, he managed to complete his goal despite numerous weather, course maintenance and other logistical issues...not to mention his own “senior moment.” The journey covered 87,814 air miles and another 17,051 by automobile. During the trek he suffered two frozen shoulders, a bad lower back, golfer's elbow (left), tennis elbow (right), three major sunburns, hundreds of mosquito bites, poison oak, plus numerous cuts and bruises chasing errant shots into the woods, desert and other prickly flora. None of this was as painful as the cost associated with losing 117 Pro V1s. A confirmed golf addict and cheapskate, he is now chronicling his adventures for his heirs (who will probably get nothing else, as he wasted the estate on this boondoggle).
Author: Gary Sutherland Publisher: Headline ISBN: 0755387937 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 182
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Gary Sutherland was a lapsed golfer, until he acquired his late dad's putter. After studying a crumpled golf map of Scotland, Gary decided to embark on a voyage. His target was to play 18 rounds of golf on 18 Scottish islands in honour of his dad, a ship's captain who, when he wasn't at sea, was never off the golf course. His journey would take him from the Northern Isles to the Outer Hebrides. Playing in the Harris hail and Arran sunshine, he would encounter an odd variety of golfing hazards, including sheep on the tees, cows on the fairways and electric fences round the greens. This is golf in the raw - a million miles from St Andrews. It is a life-affirming tale of remembrance and discovery. It's about having a laugh and holding on to what's dear. And it's about a putter with magical properties. You can believe what you choose to, but it all happened...
Author: Rick Reilly Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0767917405 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 274
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The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers—and some celebrity duffers—with hilarious results in this New York Times bestseller. Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their game by caddying, even though he had absolutely no idea how to do it. Amazingly, some of the best golfers in the world—including Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Tom Lehman, John Daly, Jill McGill of the LPGA tour, and Casey Martin—agreed to let Reilly carry their bags at actual PGA and LPGA Tour events. To round out his portrait of the golfing life, Reilly also persuaded Deepak Chopra and Donald Trump to take him on as a caddy, accompanied the four highest-rolling golf hustlers in Las Vegas around the course, and carried the bag for a blind golfer. Between his hilarious descriptions of his own ineptitude as a caddy and his insight into what makes the greats of golf so great, Reilly’s wicked wit and an expert’s eye provide readers with the next best thing to a great round of golf.
Author: John Richardson Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1616080264 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 209
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The author describes his life and his determination to meet the demands of being a good father, run a business, and break par in golf within a year.
Author: David Owen Publisher: Workman Publishing ISBN: 9780761115939 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 122
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Discusses the history and rules of office golf, describes how to set up a course in a hallway or conference room, and includes nine punch-out, reusable golf holes to set up an office golf course
Author: Al Barkow Publisher: Publications International ISBN: 9781412713887 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 168
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The perfect gift for golfers - aces and duffers alike - of all ages, all generations, all over the world. A lively mix of trivia, anecdotes, observations, and quotations from and about golf's most colorful characters.
Author: Barry Johnston
Author: Barry Johnston
Author: Lou Romano
Author: Rick Reilly
Author: Paul Laubach
Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Author: Gary Sutherland
Author: Rick Reilly
Author: John Richardson
Author: David Owen
Author: Al Barkow