Golf's Best Short Stories

by Paul D. Staudohar

Book Overview

Every decade of the 20th century and many great writers, including P. G. Wodehouse, Paul Gallico, Don Marquis, and John Updike, are represented in these great tales of golf. British duffers, amateur sleuths, pros, hustlers, plodders, cheaters, starry-eyed lovers, and crass finaglers people these stories, which range from comedy to tragedy, mystery, action, introspection, and romance. Each reveals a true love of the game and a wry understanding of golf's frustrations, perplexities, embarrassments, and moments of pure delight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556523254
• ISBN13: 9781556523250
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Totally Great Collection!

Like great golf stories? About ball that goes where hitter wants? A club used by a champion that swings that way with whoever swings it? What Sherlock Holmes would do with a golf club in his hand? This is but few of the absolutely wonderful short stories to do with golf, selected over years by authors from differing eras, but with all same theme: revolvement around getting the white pill in the hole. Tough to select any favorites out of this excellent selection of 24, but "Golf is a Nice Friendly Game" is my selection. How can you miss with a tale wound around giving away one's whole wartime allocation of rubber for golf ball business based on wager of two old CEO duffers with their sponsored pros playing? Must have for the avid golf reader! Pure enjoyment!

A wonderful collection for anyone who loves golf.

This book has become one of my favorite golf books ever. It's for anyone who loves the game and it's lore. Some of these stories are hilarious, others are like a good mystery. Finally a classic golf book without a bit of instruction.