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"Drew Millard loves golf. We're talking climbing a mountain, jumping over the moon, standing outside golf's window holding a boom box levels of love. As a kid, he'd enjoyed the game, but since college, his clubs had been gathering dust in his parents' basement. And then, a bout with depression led him back home to haul them out of the unfinished storage area under the stairs. It was what the doctor had ordered. In addition to medication and therapy,...
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God Loves Golfers Best is the ultimate collection of golf jokes, quotes, and cartoons sure to tickle the funny bone of any avid duffer. A perfect gift or self-purchase for the golf fan in your life! Examples from God Loves Golfers Best: Golf is a lot like taxes. You drive hard to get to the green, and end up in the hole. What should you do if lightning strikes during your round? Walk around holding a 1-iron, because even God can't hit a 1-iron! A...
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Club throwing is an art! It relieves stress, burns calories and it keeps the other players on the course on their toes. So there's no need to lie, no need to be embarrassed. You're a club thrower--welcome to the club. Here's your official guide to the art of club throwing, and it includes: --Throwing clubs for distance and accuracy --Club throwing Q&A --The 20 basic throws --What to do when you're REALLY teed off
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Are those fuzzy alligator head covers really necessary? And are pro golfers actually getting paid to do this? The answers to these and many other questions, plus the Ten Commandments of Modern Golf and a glossary of terms, definitions and swear words will keep you laughing all the way from the first tee to the clubhouse.
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Explain away your bad shots-and have your friends laugh at the same time!
In Golf's Best Excuses, author Joshua Shifrin takes a witty approach in helping golfers make sense of their worst days on the course. The next time a player goes down in defeat, he or she can always explain the woeful round with "My golf clubs are too old." Or after a bad putt, golfers might try to explain the mishap with, "There were too many spike marks on the green."
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In All the Memorable Rounds, author Tripp Bowden asserts that it is the experience that defines a golf course. This includes the experience from the parking lot to the pro shop, the golf course to the caddies, the first tee jitters to the eighteenth tee with all bets on the line. The experience is at the nineteenth hole, commiserating over a pint to the ones that got away, raising a glass to the ones that didn't.
Bowden includes his own stories from...
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Meet John Richardson. A typical weekend golfer who enjoyed the game but couldn't break 100. Married. One seven-year-old daughter. Full-time job. But he differed from the average 24-handicapper in one crucial way: He was determined to break par within a year at the local golf course, while working a demanding full-time job and trying his best to remain a good husband and father.
Virtually everyone he came across told him that it wasn't possible. Famed...
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This book is for the golfer who just enjoys getting out with friends once or twice a week for a round of golf and for the golfer whose skills may need improvement. Basically, this book is for every non-pro golfer who plays the game because, as we know, golf never ceases to frustrate. The author, Mike Pavlik, wrote If You're a Duffer, You're OK in My Book to deliver the message that it's all right to be a duffer. In other words, it's fine if you don't...
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For many golfers, the innocent thrill of striking a drive clearly, avoiding a deep sand-trap, or holing out an unlikely putt is all they need to make a round (or a whole year) of golf memorable. But there's a group of modern players in search of something more. They've rediscovered the magic of the game in "extreme" golf, and their adventures are about to inspire golfers everywhere. Here are players like Andre Tolme, who decided to turn Mongolia into...
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Golfers and Skiers is a humorous, enlightening, passionate and unique book looking at forty similarities between Golfing and Skiing. This book is intended to rekindle fond memories for you, your friends and family. It will be a fun conversation starter for years to come on your coffee table, for holidays or at parties.
Fun will be had by all because everyone wants to talk about their golfing and skiing hero moments. Finally, When comparing aspects...
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Ever since that fateful day several hundred years ago when a Scottish shepherd first struck a rock with a shillelagh, perhaps no single athletic pursuit has brought man more joy and frustration, more fulfillment and utter despair than the game of golf. It has been said by many that it is a microcosm of life itself-a beautiful game which tests the mind, body, and spirit. As a testament to that, there has been no shortage of inspired writing on the...
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This book is a comprehensive collection of stories, each of which captures a different facet of the game of golf. Some of the best golfers in the history of the sport as well as those who have established themselves as aficionados through their writing or commentary all offer their stories from both on and off the course. Together they articulate the passion as well as the frustrations behind one of the world's most popular sports. The Best Golf Stories...
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In Golf Jokes, Josh Shifrin has put together a list of the funniest, most humorous, side-stitching, belly busting, and toe-tickling list of comedic prose to keep you laughing throughout anything this amazing game can throw at you. From concise one-liners to fuller-length quips, Shifrin takes you from the fairway to the green and beyond. Some of the hundreds of jokes include:
• Why do true golfers always avoid pie whenever possible? Because they...
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Heart and Humor That Are far Above Par
Hit the links with popular humorist and golf enthusiast Phil Callaway as he shares stories of friendship, faith, and failure he found while on the fairway. From tee to green and all points in between, join Phil in a celebration of one of the world's most exhilarating and exasperating pastimes.
Aim for the flag as you enjoy anecdotes such as...
The Itch-A long Canadian winter does nothing to stop some dedicated...
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In his illustrious career as a cartoonist for the New Yorker and other publications, Joseph Farris has created dozens of hilarious cartoons about "the best game in the world at which to be bad." A.A. Milne had it right, and Farris's cartoons get to the heart of the game's wonderful contradiction: over the course of eighteen holes, golf has the capacity to bring great joy and drive you crazy. Farris treats us to the sight of a blissfully happily newlywed...
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Golf is not just for the links — it's for life. How do you know when you're a golfer? For starters, you might just find golf has infiltrated every aspect of your life, from your choice of car to the words you use. You may find yourself mowing your lawn to fairway height or discussing how your shaft feels extremely loudly in public. You probably think sub-par means something must be really, really good, and you're pretty sure the Dutch Masters is...
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