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"Humorous but allso agonizing and also unfailingly fascinating regardless of one's interest in golf. For the psychology of of the sport--and this is what Mr. Plimpton is probing--there is nothing more revealing around." --The New York Times
"Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madnesss with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that." --Newsweek
"Golf is a lonely and private game, lacking the natural drama of football, but Plimpton, by substituting improvisation for plot, has caught its mad comedy and bizarre effects on peoplein a book just as charming, in its own way, as Paper Lion." --Life magazine
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"Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that." -Newsweek
THE BOGEY MAN remains arguably the funniest book on golf ever written.
George Plimpton here joins the pro golf circuit for a month of self-imposed torture in the name of bringing professional sport to the sphere of the average man. Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Wlater Hagan, and others populate this intriguing, classic, candid view from the first tee.
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"Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that." -Newsweek
THE BOGEY MAN remains arguably the funniest book on golf ever written.
George Plimpton here joins the pro golf circuit for a month of self-imposed torture in the name of bringing professional sport to the sphere of the average man. Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Wlater Hagan, and others populate this intriguing, classic, candid view from the first tee.
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My woes in golf, I have felt, have been largely psychological. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mark Tanner, Arnold Palmer, Bobby Jones, San Francisco, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Dan Reilly, Dave Marr, Claude Harmon, Sam Snead, Bob Bruno, Palm Springs, Indian Wells, Johnny Pott, Pebble Beach, San Diego, British Open, Del Monte Lodge, New York, Bermuda Dunes, Billy Casper, Boca Raton, Doug Sanders, Las Vegas, The Golfer's Handbook New!
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My woes in golf, I have felt, have been largely psychological. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
touring caddies, ocean holes, golf hat, golf glove Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mark Tanner, Arnold Palmer, Bobby Jones, San Francisco, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Dan Reilly, Dave Marr, Claude Harmon, Sam Snead, Bob Bruno, Palm Springs, Indian Wells, Johnny Pott, Pebble Beach, San Diego, British Open, Del Monte Lodge, New York, Bermuda Dunes, Billy Casper, Boca Raton, Doug Sanders, Las Vegas, The Golfer's Handbook New!
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- Life of Christ by Giovanni Papini on page 67, page 68, and page 279
- Nine Bad Shots of Golf by Jim Dante on page 30
- How to hit a golf ball by Sam Snead on page 29
- Treasure Island (Classic Library) by Robert Louis, III Stevenson on page 8
- Treasure Island by Robert, Louis Stevenson on page 8
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- The Old Man and the Tee: How I Took Ten Strokes Off My Game and Learned to Love Golf All Over Again by Turk Pipkin on 4 pages
- The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair: And Other Excursions and Observations by George Plimpton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- SPORTS PSYCHING: Playing Your Best Game All of the Time by Robert W. Harris on page 203, and Back Matter
- A Left Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw by David Wolman on page 148, and page 155
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