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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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Classic Golf Stories: Twenty-Six Incredible Tales from the Links by Jeff Silverman Publisher Comments Ever since that fateful day several hundred years ago when 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $6.50 Used - 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Missing Links by Rick Reilly Publisher Comments Missing Links is the story of four middle class buddies who live outside of Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $5.50 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: $6.95 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Back Nine (Vintage Contemporaries) by Billy Mott Publisher Comments Charlie McLeod was a golf prodigy. His father taught him the game and then injury took it away. Twenty-five years after his last swing, McLeod is finally back on the course, working as a caddy in San Francisco. Though he is older and slightly disheveled,... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $9.95 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: $12.95 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dead Solid Perfect by Dan Jenkins Publisher Comments The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author. <BR>Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Missing Links by Rick Reilly Publisher Comments Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Golf Stories by Charles Mcgrath Publisher Comments Golf Stories is a wonderful gathering of short fiction about the famously addictive pastime. Here are literary classics by such golf-loving writers as P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, and John Updike, mixed with surprises like an appearance by Ian Fleming... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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