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Golf in the Kingdom 25TH Anniversary Edition by Michael Murphy Publisher Comments Since its first publication, Golf in the Kingdom has been recognized as a classic work on the deeper mysteries of golfa gospel of those who suspect, or know, that golf is more than a mere pastime. A young man en route to India stops in Scotland to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Swinger by Michael Bamberger Publisher Comments He’s back. And if you thought the scandal was outrageous, wait till you experience the comeback. His name, as we all know, is Herbert X. “Tree” Tremont, and he’s the richest and most celebrated athlete of our time—a... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Miracle on the 17th Green by James Patterson Publisher Comments Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life - he has a job that he despises, a marriage that has lost its passion, children from whom he feels disconnected, and at age fifty, a sense that he has accomplished nothing of consequence with his... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shanks for Nothing by Rick Reilly Publisher Comments The hilarious sequel to Rick Reillys beloved bestselling golf novel Missing Links Life is going pretty well for Raymond “Stick” Hart. Hes happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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How To Win At Golf Without Actually Playing by Jon Winokur Synopsis Golf is so complex and demanding a game, so fickle and perverse, that even its masters never truly master it. This guide to winning at golf tells you how to dominate your opponents - not by out-playing them but by out-thinking them.... (read more) Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia by David L Cook Synopsis You never really know when you might meet someone who will change your life. Golf's Sacred Journey is a story about a 'chance' meeting between a fictitious golf professional and his unorthodox mentor. As the story unfolds, we---along with the pro---learn... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf (P.G. Wodehouse Collection) by P G Wodehouse Publisher Comments P.G. Wodehouse often said that he wished he'd spent more time playing golf and less "fooling about writing stories and things." Happily, the prolific and beloved satirist often took his pen to the green. Here, Wodehouse expert D.R. Bensen has collected a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rub of the Green by William Hallberg Publisher Comments "An unusual and ultimately captivating story. Hallberg's debut is auspicious...exhilarating". -- Chicago Tribune "Poignant, beautifully written". -- The New York Times Book Review "A green shade protecting me from the gathering white heat of my mother's... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Hit the Second Shot First: Blue and Bawdy Jokes That Unlock the Puzzle of the Green by Jim Bronner Publisher Comments Two highly successful sports agents deliver a riotous compilation of risqu golf jokes guaranteed to improve a golfer's humor, along with his stroke.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Golf's Best Short Stories (Sports Short Stories) by Paul D Staudohar Publisher Comments Every decade of the 20th century and many great writers, including P. G. Wodehouse, Paul Gallico, Don Marquis, and John Updike, are represented in these great tales of golf. British duffers, amateur sleuths, pros, hustlers, plodders, cheaters, starry... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Kingdom of Shivas Irons by Michael Murphy Publisher Comments Michael Murphy's Golf in the Kingdom is one of the bestselling golf books of all time and has been hailed as "a golf classic if any exists in our day" (John Updike) and "a masterpiece on the mysticism of golf" (San Francisco Chronicle). Golf in the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Legend of Bagger Vance: Golf and the Game of Life by Steven Pressfield Publisher Comments The time: 1931. The place: the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept Atlantic shore. The event: a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole match in which Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, legends of golf in their own time, are joined by an unsung opponent... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lure of the Links: Great Golf Stories by David Owen Publisher Comments This handsome anthology of stories and essays profiles the great courses, theplayers, and the spirit of the game of golf in humorous fashion.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Back Nine by Billy Mott Publisher Comments Looking for the anonymity and order that can only come on the quiet grounds of a golf course, Charlie McCleod returns to San Francisco and the game that defined him years ago. In this poignant redemption tale, Mott has created a story that transcends the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy About the Author Michael Murphy began his quest into the nature of human potential in the late 1950s while a psychology major at Stanford University. After a year of graduate school, he spent 18 months in India, at the ashram of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. Aurobindo... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Greatest Game by Hugh Dodd Publisher Comments Did you know that Shakespeare was a golfer? And that Rembrandt was no stranger to the fairway? Professor David Purdie takes a seriously humorous swipe at our collected knowledge of the game in this enlightening and entertaining compendium. Based on firm... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Riverbank Tweed and Roadmap Jenkins: Tales from the Caddie Yard by Bo Links Publisher Comments For nearly as long as there have been golfers, there have been men walking alongside them, carrying their clubs, holding the flagstick, offering advice, smelling not so faintly of old sweat and very new wine. We knew them by their nicknames and little... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told by Jeff Silverman Publisher Comments Since the day several hundred years ago that a Scottish shepherd first struck a rock with a shillelagh, perhaps no single athletic pursuit has brought man more joy and frustration, more fulfillment and utter despair than the game of golf. It has been... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bogie Golf... as It Was: Golf ... as It Was by Charles Hellman Publisher Comments Short of twitting Scotsmen about wearing skirts, the surest way to infuriate them is to suggest that golf started somewhere other than Scotland, and that's precisely what this controversial novel suggests.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slim and None by Dan Jenkins Publisher Comments The uproarious sequel to the national bestseller "The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist" finds Bobby Joe Grooves at the most critical point in his career--still hell-bent on challenging PGA decorum and common sense.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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