First Chapbook for Golfers : Lessons and Lore, Wit and Wisdom

by Silverman, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780942627664
• ISBN10: 0942627660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub

Summary

The wonderful term "chapbook" has been used to cover those small volumes collecting a variety of different writings. They were popular three centuries ago in Europe and remain a literary tradition. The most notable American version of the chapbook was Ben Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac". Woodford believes chapbooks were a terrific idea whose time has come again! We begin the projected series of dedicated subjects with The First Chapbook for Golfers, following the course of some things old, some things new, and several surprises across its diverse landscape. It all makes for fascinating reading, the kind of volume perfect as a gift, for the airplane or vacation.

The First Chapbook for Golfers offers some of golf's best literature, with works by John Updike, classic reporting by Dan Jenkins and Bernard Darwin, and timeless tales by P.G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, and even A.A. Milne, more often associated with Pooh Corner than Amen Corner. There will also be new pieces by some of the best observers of the game, ranging from golf travel, golf etiquette, course

Table of Contents

I. THE TEXAS TWOSOME (A Coupl'a Good-Old-Boys Explain it All)
Harvey Penick and James Michener	2	(11)
Bud Shrake
The Host Club	13	(7)
Dan Jenkins
II. THE SWEET SPOT (Why We Do This)
Last Evening Light	20	(5)
Chris Hodenfield
The Mystery of Golf	25	(2)
Arnold Haultain
Keep Your Eye on the Ball	27	(2)
Grantland Rice
Kipling Courageous	29	(2)
A Diversion in the Fields Called the Links	31	(2)
Tobias Smollett
The Greatest Shot Ever Landed	33	(3)
III. GOLF SPELLED BACKWARDS IS ``FLOG'' (Why Do We Do This?)
An Unlucky Golfer	36	(5)
A. A. Milne
How to Make a Hole in Nine	41	(2)
Grantland Rice
A Golfer's Wish	43	(3)
Edgar Guest
The Most Absorbing Game	46	(3)
A. J. Balfour
The Golfer's Prayer	49	(3)
Ring Lardner
IV. GET A GRIP (The Psychology of the Game)
Joyce Wethered's One-Track Mind	52	(2)
A Snapshot in Time: Fred Couples	54	(3)
Jeff Silverman
We Can't All Be Idiots	57	(1)
Sir Walter Simpson
Of Yippers, Twitchers and Jitterers	58	(6)
Peter Dobereiner
Upon Winning One's Flight in the Senior Four-Ball	64	(4)
John Updike
V. THE LEADERBOARD (Legends of Golf)
The Ultimates	68	(1)
Whoo-Ha, Arnie!	69	(13)
Dan Jenkins
In Conversation with Ben Crenshaw	82	(5)
The King and His Plaque	87	(1)
Watching Hogan Practice	88	(2)
Pat Ward-Thomas
On Golf, Baseball, DiMaggio and Williams	90	(3)
Sam Snead
What Spooks the Bear	93	(5)
VI. THE FAIRWAYEST OF THEM ALL (Women and Golf)
A Woman's Handicap Begins Off-Course	98	(7)
Glenna Collett-Vare
A Course of Their Own	105	(3)
Marcia Chambers
Tee for Two Genders	108	(8)
Amy Bennet Pascoe
VII. READING THE GREEN (Course Design)
The Course Beautiful	116	(4)
A. W. Tillinghast
Left-Handed Golf Courses	120	(6)
Rube Goldberg
Why There's No Crying in Golf	126	(2)
John L. Low
A Plea for Indoor Golf	128	(3)
P. G. Wodehouse
On the Old Course at St. Andrews	131	(8)
Bernard Darwin
The Golf Holes at Augusta National	139	(5)
VIII. THE UN-LIE-ABLE PLAY (Etiquette and Sportsmanship)
What's Good for the Goose...	144	(4)
Art Buchwald
The Inequity of Golf	148	(2)
Charles Blair Macdonald
Disease, Diagnosis and Cure	150	(4)
Timothy Ward
The Original Thirteen	154	(2)
Keep the Rules and They Keep You	156	(6)
Colman McCarthy
Golf in Times of War	162	(2)
Is Mulligan the Metaphor for the Clinton Presidency?	164	(6)
Don Van Natta Jr.
Shush!!! An Authority on Athaletics Makes a Suggestion	170	(6)
Ring Lardner
Of Nerve and Cordiality	176	(8)
Horace G. Hutchinson
IX. CLUBS, COURSES, AND CLUBS (The Infrastructure)
Why Your New Driver Cost So Much	184	(2)
...And Where to Make the Most of It	186	(3)
Some Experiments and Observations	189	(4)
O. B. Keeler
A Game of Inches	193	(1)
In Conversation with Richard Mackenzie	194	(6)
Brassie Please: What's in a Name?	200	(4)
X. DRIVE, HE SAID (The How-To's of Golf)
Practice Doesn't Make Perfect	204	(7)
Roger Maltbie
In Conversation with Raymond Floyd	211	(6)
School Daze	217	(9)
Jeff Silverman
The Cleverest Tip	226	(2)
In Conversation with Curt Schilling	228	(6)
XI. FICTIONAL FESCUE (The Game of Golf in Literature)
The Only Two Acceptable Theories	234	(7)
Ron Shelton
John Norville
Unshaken by Goldfinger, Bond Puts on a Stirring Display	241	(6)
Ian Fleming
On the First Tee with Rabbit Angstrom	247	(3)
John Updike
Ten Intriguing Golf Mysteries	250
XII. THE LIST
The List	252