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Title: How to Quit Golf: A 12-Step Program by Craig Brass ISBN: 0-452-28363-9 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another obcession to admit to
Comment: Unlike a George Carlin humorous rant at everything and everything, it's tough maintaining a high level when dealing with only one subject. That's why this book has its hilarious ups and somewhat tedious downs: from practicing your swing in elevators (I personally like bathroom mirrors while dripping wet) to the Bobby Jones chapter. But overall, well worth reading especially for AA members who have the double whammy of being hooked on the game and will really appreciate the tongue in cheek comparison.
Rating: 4
Summary: Tongue in Cheek Look at a Passionate Game
Comment: Places this game from Scotland in the light of twelve step addiction programs. Highlights the borderline addict (at least) in everyone of us passionate about this great game. Why do we continue to toruture ourselves? This fun book delves into this, poking fun as would a standup comedian in a nightclub would take shots at the audience.
I teetered on this one--from two to four starts, likely because the book itself surges from good to average or slightly below. Reaching its high pint in chapter five, it then descends into the kind of cheap, over exaggerated category of humor we have come to in our times. Sex oriented with reference after reference to different items and people that I became saturated with this. Much of the talk about club throwing, gimmick helps, etc. seemed like they could easily have come out of a brainstorming session by a high school golf team holed up in the clubhouse waiting out a rain.
Sprinkled in the high-point chapters however are some great one-liners, e.g. "Golf if like a sting operation, setting you up at every turn."
Enjoyed more the creative side of books such as: Flatbellies, Enchanted Clubs, the Greatest Golfer who Never Lived and A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read and be saved!
Comment: Mark Twain once described golf as "a good walk spoiled." Accurate as Twain was in revealing the insidiously evil nature of this addictive pastime, he stopped short of explaining why so many people were willing to spoil their walks despite vowing at the end of each round never to touch another club.
Craig Brass, mercifully, has done what Samuel Clemens could not. He has exposed golf for what it is: a heroin derivative. What else could explain the shakes I get when the weather is nice, the grass is green, and I'm stuck in the office? What else could explain my need to sneak out on a weekend with the flimsy and transparent excuse, "I'm going to run some errands," as my wife gives me a shameful stare?
I admit it. I'm addicted. Author Brass has empowered me to face the problem and do something about it. Namely, quit the game.
No longer will I suffer the humiliating laughter of "friends" after gagging on an 18-inch birdie putt. No longer will I helicopter a 3-wood into the top of Indiana's tallest tulip poplar after worm-burning a brand new Titleist into a mosquito-infested swamp. No siree, not me. No more. I quit. I can do it. Just follow the 12 steps and keep the faith. I can quit.
Alright... well, no I can't. No one can. As Brass explains, we're all just puppets at the end of strings being pulled by the golf gods. We are at their capricious mercy, and they have precious little. Oh sure, they give you the occasional chip-in from off the green. But that's just to keep you coming back.
I read Craig Brass's book in one evening, and I laughed til I cried. I cried because a) the book is funny, and b) I recognized that Brass was describing me - and many of my friends. His writing is cynically witty (like Twain) and, thank heavens, he does not just resort to the same dried-up old golf jokes you've heard a million times. His approach is fresh. His evidence is convincing. More than a few golf widows will want to stuff their husbands' stockings with this gem. It's probably the next best thing to professional intervention.
In fact, I'm writing this review having just come in off the golf course. Now on a beautiful 55-degree December day in South Bend, Indiana (where it's normally closer to 55-below), I could have been stringing Christmas lights on my house, or finishing some holiday shopping for my wife. But no. I played golf. I pretzeled a driver around a yard arm after cold-topping a Nike Tour Accuracy into a lake. I vowed never to play again. But the weather report for tomorrow looks pretty good . . .
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Title: The Golf Gods Are Laughing: The Confessions. Obsessions, and Insights of a Golf Addict by Robert Woodcox ISBN: 0929765656 Publisher: Seven Locks Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Official Exceptions to the Rules of Golf by Henry Beard ISBN: 0679741232 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 25 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: How to Line Up Your Fourth Putt by Bobby Rusher, Cindy Davis, Bobby Rusher ISBN: 1879676001 Publisher: R Paul Rusher & Co Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: 501 Excuses For A Bad Golf Shot by Justin J. Exner, Danielle Sovchen, Francine ISBN: 0966531914 Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Mulligan's Laws by Henry Beard ISBN: 0385492774 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 18 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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