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The title sets the tone for David Owen's delightful romp through golf's mysteries, marvels, and malevolences: "Just once," goes the traditional Scottish lament, "I wish I would play my usual game." Owen, who turned away from golf as a kid because Richard Nixon played it and Jerry Garcia didn't, sets out anew to find his game in all the usual--and not so usual--places: he searches for a swing at golf school; pursues golf's enigmas in Scotland; explores the secrets of club design at the Ping factory; follows Freddie Couples at the Ryder Cup; and, once he gets his handicap down to a respectable single digit, sets out to tear up some of the best courses in the land. This is a wonderful odyssey into a maddening game, and Owen covers his course with sharp insight, prose as smooth as Augusta's greens, and wit as inviting as the bottom of the cup. But don't let his sense of humor lull you; Owen is serious about his quest to come to terms with this game. His ability to accept "the difference between a slice and a draw is a certain number of beers" is--no kidding--sober testament to that. No hacker on the planet would disagree. --Jeff Silverman
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Owen (The Walls Around Us) sounds like a reasonable human being but for his obsession with golf: as he puts it, "Monks feel about God the way I feel about golf." But even those who spurn the links as the territory of white, fat-cat Republicans (Owen admits to a bit of unease on that score) will enjoy reading his reasons for loving the sport, a most compelling one being that "golf is life simplified and improved." Also of interest are his visits to famous courses in Scotland and Ireland; his sessions in a golf camp, which actually helped to improve his play; and his theories on golf as male bonding and a means of escape from females. Everything in the book sails over the sand traps except for an overlong and boring chapter on the Ryder Cup matches, which pit the U.S. against an all-Europe team and are played alternately in the U.S. and Europe. Many of the entries in this collection first appeared in such periodicals as Esquire, Golf Digest and The New Yorker. Author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The title sets the tone for David Owen's delightful romp through golf's mysteries, marvels, and malevolences: "Just once," goes the traditional Scottish lament, "I wish I would play my usual game." Owen, who turned away from golf as a kid because Richard Nixon played it and Jerry Garcia didn't, sets out anew to find his game in all the usual--and not so usual--places: he searches for a swing at golf school; pursues golf's enigmas in Scotland; explores the secrets of club design at the Ping factory; follows Freddie Couples at the Ryder Cup; and, once he gets his handicap down to a respectable single digit, sets out to tear up some of the best courses in the land. This is a wonderful odyssey into a maddening game, and Owen covers his course with sharp insight, prose as smooth as Augusta's greens, and wit as inviting as the bottom of the cup. But don't let his sense of humor lull you; Owen is serious about his quest to come to terms with this game. His ability to accept "the difference between a slice and a draw is a certain number of beers" is--no kidding--sober testament to that. No hacker on the planet would disagree. --Jeff Silverman
From Publishers Weekly
Owen (The Walls Around Us) sounds like a reasonable human being but for his obsession with golf: as he puts it, "Monks feel about God the way I feel about golf." But even those who spurn the links as the territory of white, fat-cat Republicans (Owen admits to a bit of unease on that score) will enjoy reading his reasons for loving the sport, a most compelling one being that "golf is life simplified and improved." Also of interest are his visits to famous courses in Scotland and Ireland; his sessions in a golf camp, which actually helped to improve his play; and his theories on golf as male bonding and a means of escape from females. Everything in the book sails over the sand traps except for an overlong and boring chapter on the Ryder Cup matches, which pit the U.S. against an all-Europe team and are played alternately in the U.S. and Europe. Many of the entries in this collection first appeared in such periodicals as Esquire, Golf Digest and The New Yorker. Author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I PLAYED GOLF WHEN I WAS TWELVE AND THIRTEEN, BUT then I stopped. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crummy golfers, net birdie, stadium course, press tent, eighteenth tee, eighteenth green, elevated green, first tee, playing partners, birdie putt, ninth green, touring pros, tee shot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ryder Cup, Old Course, Pine Valley, Myrtle Beach, Pebble Beach, United States, Jack Nicklaus, Royal Dublin, Tom Watson, Winged Foot, British Open, Augusta National, Golf Digest, New York, Bobby Jones, Sea Island, Payne Stewart, Davis Love, Disney Classic, Karsten Manufacturing, Nick Faldo, Big Bertha, Fred Couples, Moon Valley, Tom Kite New!
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I PLAYED GOLF WHEN I WAS TWELVE AND THIRTEEN, BUT then I stopped. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crummy golfers, net birdie, stadium course, press tent, eighteenth tee, eighteenth green, elevated green, first tee, playing partners, birdie putt, ninth green, touring pros, tee shot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ryder Cup, Old Course, Pine Valley, Myrtle Beach, Pebble Beach, United States, Jack Nicklaus, Royal Dublin, Tom Watson, Winged Foot, British Open, Augusta National, Golf Digest, New York, Bobby Jones, Sea Island, Payne Stewart, Davis Love, Disney Classic, Karsten Manufacturing, Nick Faldo, Big Bertha, Fred Couples, Moon Valley, Tom Kite New!
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- Great Golf Courses of Ireland by John Redmond on page 98
- First World War (Causes & consequences) by Stewart Ross on page 57
- The United States (First Reports: Countries) by Robin S. Doak on page 106
- North Carolina Disasters & Catastrophes! (Carole Marsh North Carolina Books) by Carole Marsh on page 114
- John Philip (1775-1851 : Missions, Race and Politics in South Africa) by Andrew Ross on page 197
- Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf by David Owen in Front Matter, and page 197
- The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness by David Owen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine by David Owen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox by David Owen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf by David Owen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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