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Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf

by Rick Reilly

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Publisher Comments:

The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf.

Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their games by caddying, even though he had absolutely no idea how to do it. Amazingly, some of the best golfers in the world—including Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Tom Lehman, John Daly, Casey

Martin, and Jill McGill—agreed to let Reilly carry their bags at actual PGA and LPGA Tour events. To round out his portrait of the golfing life, Reilly also caddied at the Masters, persuaded Deepak Chopra and Donald Trump to use him as a caddy, accompanied high-rolling golf hustlers in Las Vegas around the course, and carried the bag for a blind golfer.

In Who’s Your Caddy?, Reilly chronicles his experiences in the same inimitable style that makes his back-page column for Sports Illustrated a must-read for more than twenty million people every week. From his laugh-out-loud portrait of Deepak Chopra decomposing on the green, to his portraits of good ol’ boys who bet $100,000 a round, to his hilarious descriptions of his own ineptitude as a caddy, to his insights into what

makes the greats of golf so great, Reilly combines a wicked wit with an expert’s eye in a most original and entertaining look at golf.

Who’s Your Caddy? is the next best thing to a great round of golf. It is sure to delight low-handicappers, high-handicappers, and everyone in between.

From the Hardcover edition.

Review:

“Good, wacky fun–and the primo Father’s Day gift of the year." —Fortune

“Reilly could write about lawn bowling and make it funny, informative and entertaining. You never know what the next page is going to bring.” —Los Angeles Times

“Rick Reilly at his wise-cracking and descriptive finest. A must-read for golfers, sports fans and regular Reilly readers.” —Scripps Howard News Service

“You don’t have to know much about golf to get a kick out of this book. Reilly learns a little about golf, and a lot about people.” —The Buffalo News

Synopsis:

The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at "Sports Illustrated" to caddy for some of the world's most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf.

About the Author

RICK REILLY is the author of Missing Links, Slo Mo!, and The Life of Reilly, a New York Times bestseller. A senior writer for Sports Illustrated, he has been voted the National Sportswriter of the Year by his peers eight times. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780767917407
Subtitle:
Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf
Author:
Reilly, Rick
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Subject:
Golf - General
Publication Date:
May 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8.04x5.30x.60 in. .45 lbs.

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