Forty-one essays on golf. Half of the essays are brand new, the others are all reworked and rewritten, based on pieces that were originally published in Golf Digest. Often biting, usually cranky, always hilarious and surprisingâthis is Dan Jenkins at his best, writing about the sport he loves the most.
"I've always wanted to do something for the golfer who has everything. I thought about a suede golf cart, or maybe a pair of cashmere Footjoys. Then I settled on writing this book." So begins Dan Jenkins's latestâand funniestâcollection of golf essays. The book consists of thirty-eight essays, all of them, as Dan says in the first essay, are "literally throbbing with opinion."
In this book Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen; the funniest things said on a golf course; the rivalries on tour and in the press box; the game's most magical momentsâand its most absurd. Unplayable Lies is an ode to the game Jenkins loves. But it is Dan Jenkins, so nothingâeven the game of golfâcan escape his wrath, his critical eye, or his acerbic pen. The best way to describe it is to turn the book over to Mr. Jenkins:
In "Titanic and I"âprobably the most hilarious and surprising essay in the book, telling true stories of Titanic Thompson: gambler, golf hustler, accused murderer, legendary storytellerâDan explains how Titanic would win a wager by saying he could knock a bird off a telephone wire: "Titanic would drop a ball on the ground and take out his four-wood, waggle it, and pretend to aim at the bird on the wire. When some sucker would bet him he couldn't do it, Ti would pull out a gun he carried and shoot the bird off the wire."
In "The Greatest Rounds": "Show me a man who doesn't know what Arnold did in the last round of the '60 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills, and I'll show you a soccer fan in Paraguay."
This is a perfect follow up to His Ownself. It even has an Introduction by Sally Jenkins, one of the country's top sportswriters and Dan's own darling daughter.
Categories:
- Sports & Outdoors
- Individual Sports
- Golf
- Individual Sports
Publisher : Doubleday
Author : Jenkins, Dan
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2015-03-17
Number Of Pages : 272
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0385539754
ISBN-13 : 9780385539753
Item weight : 0.8 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 4.9 in x 7.4 in
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