The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told

by Edited and with an Introduction by Jeff Silverman

• ISBN13: 9781585743674
• ISBN10: 1585743674
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

The perfect gift for anybody who has ever swung a club or marveled at the skill of touring professionals on television, The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of some of the most entertaining and insightful reading on the subject of golf. Contributions include some well-known works from renowned writers of the genre, such as Dan Jenkins, Herbert Warren Wind, and John Updike, as well as some rare, lesser-known gems from Gary McCord, Bud Shrake, and the great F. Scott Fitzgerald. The thirty stories in this fascinating collection will lead you from tee to green, avoiding the bunkers while illustrating in vivid detail - through true and fictional tales - all the humor, drama, excitement, and emotion the game of golf is so richly steeped in.

Author Biography

Jeff Silverman, a former columnist for The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and several national magazines. The editor of The First Chapbook for Foodies, The First Chapbook for Golfers, and The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told, he now lives with his family in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Jeff Silverman
What Golf is	1	(4)
Grantland Rice
The Only Two Acceptable Theories	5	(6)
Ron Shelton
John Norville
The Golfomaniac	11	(4)
Stephen Leacock
The Charm of Golf	15	(4)
A. A. Milne
Stark	19	(8)
Michael Bamberger
The Way The Ball Bounces	27	(6)
John P. Marquand
The Long Hole	33	(16)
P. G. Wodehouse
Winter Dreams	49	(22)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mr. Frisbie	71	(12)
Ring Lardner
Dressing the Part for Golf	83	(10)
Glenna Collett Vare
Over the Wire is out of Bounds	93	(10)
Pat Ward-Thomas
September 20, 1913	103	(12)
Al Laney
The Greatest of Golfers	115	(4)
Robert T. Jones Jr.
Back to Cherry Hills	119	(12)
Herbert Warren Wind
Day of Glory for a Golden Oldie	131	(8)
Rick Reilly
The Carry	139	(4)
George Plimpton
They Might be Giants	143	(12)
John Paul Newport
A Good Walk Spoiled	155	(12)
Mark Kram
The Rivercliff Golf Killings	167	(8)
Don Marquis
Titanic Thompson	175	(14)
John Lardner
Big Divorces and Small Divots	189	(10)
Gary McCord
Care to Join Our Little Old Game?	199	(6)
Edwin ``Bud'' Shrake
Golf with the Boss	205	(14)
Dan Jenkins
Goldfinger	219	(22)
Ian Fleming
The Finest Course of All	241	(4)
Peter Dobereiner
Workers, Arise! Shout Fore	245	(6)
Alistair Cooke
Left-Handed Golf Courses: Our Greatest Need	251	(4)
Rube Goldberg
The Humors of Golf	255	(14)
A. Balfour
The Wooden Putter	269	(12)
Bernard Darwin
The Bliss of Golf	281	(4)
John Updike
About the Editor	285	(1)
Permissions Acknowledgments	286