Golf Nuts: You've Got to Be Committed [Hardcover]

Ron Garland (Author), Michael Jordan (Foreword), Brian Hewitt (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 2002

These are the folks who practice chip shots in elevators with invisible wedges. These are the people on the golf course in parkas on the first day the temperature tops 30 degrees. These are the junkies who spend hundreds of hours searching pharmaceutical companies' websites for a cure for the "yips". These golfers are "nuts" and the anecdotal stories of Golf Nuts are proof. In pathological putting circles, author Ron Garland is known as the "Head Nut" of the Golf Nuts Society, an organization that he founded which now boasts a vast membership of "nuts", and these are his favorite accounts from a group of seemingly normal people with an abnormal obsession.

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From the Inside Flap

Once bitten by the “golf bug,” golfers are at the mercy of the game and its supernatural powers. Golf Nuts: You’ve Got To Be Committed is an outgrowth of the founding of the Golf Nuts Society in 1986 by author Ron Garland. It is an in-depth recounting of the founding of the Society and a glimpse into the mind of the man who started “the most unique golf association in the world.” All golfers are at least a little nuts about the game, and because of that, every golfer will be able to relate to the zany antics of the members of the Golf Nuts Society. The book relates real stories about real members who are otherwise perfectly normal human beings. You will identify with them because you’ve done many of the same things as these self-professed “Golf Nuts”.

From the Back Cover

“If you love golf, you’ll love this book. It’s for golf nuts. The certifiable kind, like you and me.”
—Michael Jordan, 1898 Golf Nut of the Year

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 239 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158536066X
• ISBN-13: 978-1585360666
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,715,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars stories about the lunatic fringe of golf., October 24, 2002

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Robert Scott Masingill "Scott" (Payette, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golf Nuts: You've Got to Be Committed (Hardcover)

the glossary is worth the price of the book. absolutely pure golf slang.

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY -- A BOOK ABOUT ME!, January 6, 2003

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L. Charles Wimer III (Coatesville, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golf Nuts: You've Got to Be Committed (Hardcover)

"Golf Nuts" is a book about people who share a common passion. Head Nut #0001 - Ronald Garland goes into grave detail about how he established the "Golf Nuts Society" and some of the unique characters that belong to this growing organization. This is a great book if you know someone who is obssessed with the game of golf. Its very easy to read. The sample test in the back of the book to see if you should be committed is hysterical, the glossary and world records will leave the reader in stitches because only those searching for the "secret" will understand. I loved the book so much that I joined the "Golf Nuts Society" -- #3177.

5.0 out of 5 stars For the golfer in your life, October 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Golf Nuts: You've Got to Be Committed (Hardcover)

Great book. Very funny. These guys love the game and are good at it. Very entertaining read. Can't wait to give it as a stocking stuffer this year.