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Fore! Play - The Last American Male to Take up Golf (Hardcover) Loot Price: R924
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Fore! Play - The Last American Male to Take up Golf (Hardcover): B. Geist

Fore! Play - The Last American Male to Take up Golf (Hardcover)

B. Geist

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Bill Geist is known to millions as an Emmy Award-winning CBS News commentator and the author of The Big Five-Oh! and Little League Confidential. So why is this otherwise well-adjusted man whacking plastic golf balls in a New Jersey grade school gym with an instructor whose first advice is: "Once you've doubled par, pick up your ball and move on"? The answer: Geist has just become possibly the last American male to take up golf. And in his case, the pursuit will have the game's fans and detractors laughing every step of the fairway.

FORE! PLAY

In this memoir of a golfer wannabe, Geist goes to a golf expo where predators sell everything from performance golf socks to "techno-tees" guaranteed to improve your score. He competes in the Bad Golfers Association Tournament, as well as a U.S. Blind Golfers Association Tournament-and loses. He skillfully analyzes Tiger Woods's game and offers his own insider's tips on playing better golf, including: "Every so often skip a hole-it's still the best way to take 8-10 strokes off your game" and "Always play the closest hole."

Here is Geist's wit and wisdom on:
Golf Balls: "Buy the family 36-pack for nine holes. No sense in buying too few."

Getting Beat: "To sum up, I finish a distant fourth in the foursome. But I receive no citations for dress code violations. I don't hit anybody. I don't throw any clubs, don't pee on any bushes, and I keep the ball off the surrounding thoroughfares and hit no houses. Damnit, I'm getting good."

Golfing with His Son: "We moved along, the two of us taking turns advancing the one ball we had left. The final 9th hole yielded ground begrudgingly, like the Japanese soldiers dug into those hilltop machine-gun nests in The Thin Red Line. It grew late.
'Dad,' Willie said in the gathering darkness.
'Yes, son.'
'I hate golf.'
'So do I, son. I think we all do.'"

The ultimate everyman's guide to falling in love with a sport that will torture you for the rest of your life, FORE! PLAY is the first golf book for anyone who has ever wondered: "Just what do they mean by handicap, anyway?"

General

Imprint: Time Warner Trade Publishing
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2001
First published: April 2001
Authors: B. Geist
Dimensions: 241 x 159 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-52763-7
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Cricket
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LSN: 0-446-52763-7
Barcode: 9780446527637

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