Fairway to Hell: Around the World in 18 Holes [Hardcover]

Franz Lidz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 29, 2008

Presents a collection of humorous stories about golf around the world gleaned from the author's personal experience, including stories about a golf tournament for fat people and a course where the caddies are llamas.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: ESPN (April 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933060433
• ISBN-13: 978-1933060439
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Bliss, April 29, 2008

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Craig Millick - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fairway to Hell: Around the World in 18 Holes (Hardcover)

This is surely one of the great golf books. Every page is bursting with gentle witticisms and laugh-out-loud humor. If you haven't read the memoir Unstrung Heroes or Lidz's other book, Ghosty Men, the chances are that for some rogue reason, you have been unaccountably denied. The chapter on the tournament at a Florida nudist colony is worth the cover price alone. Add to that the adventures with Bill Murray, the blotto heavy metal band Judas Priest, the New England farmer who raises llamas as caddies, the Zambia course at which 15 holes are guarded by live crocodiles, and the Fattie Open - where you're penalized if you weigh under 250 pounds - and you've more than made your money back.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MAGICAL!, April 29, 2008

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Mary R. Egstrom - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fairway to Hell: Around the World in 18 Holes (Hardcover)

Franz Lidz has taken such mundane material and made of it a picaresque adventure so warm, so likable, and so disarmingly funny.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Laugh Riot, April 29, 2008

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Roger Mees - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fairway to Hell: Around the World in 18 Holes (Hardcover)

Take the most difficult, annoying and addictive game ever invented and one of our wittiest writers at the peak of his powers and you have the funniest golf stories it will ever be your good fortune to read. My personal favorites are the author's encounter with a burrowing botfly on a golf course in Panama and his e-mail exchange with a Nigerian scam artist about bank accounts and rocket golf carts. All I can say is that like for many of the very best things in life, I almost envy those who have never experienced Mr. Lidz for the pleasure they have ahead. I am a relatively old hand, so for me his writing is like womb music - no matter how bad things get I can always take pleasure and relaxation from the style, the charm and the great good humor. This book penetrates the human condition in a way that simply makes me feel better.