So Help Me Golf

*** WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 *** 'fascinating, informative and revealing' Mail on Sunday Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humour, and vast knowledge of the game of golf in 80 original pieces about what it has meant to him and to others, and all the reasons we love it. This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an 11-year prison stint. We learn how a man on his third heart nearly won the U.S. Open, how a Vietnam POW saved his life playing 18 holes a day in his tiny cell, and about the course that's absolutely free. We'll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that's underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators; not to mention Reilly's attempt to play the most mini-golf holes in one day. Reilly will admire and unload on all the great figures in the game, from Phil Mickelson to Bobby Jones to the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods. Reilly will explain why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau unless we hate genius, the greatest upset in women's golf history, and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before. Connecting it all will be the story of Reilly's own personal journey through the game, especially as it connects to his tumultuous relationship with his alcoholic father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. This is Reilly's valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without.

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Rick Reilly's So Help Me Golf Sportswriter Rick Reilly has loved golf since he was a child. In So Help Me Golf (2022), Reilly shares his love for the game through a collection of fascinating anecdotes and fun facts about its most famous players, addicts, and courses. He looks back humorously at his own experiences, too. Reilly captures not only the essence of the game, but also the way it connects and inspires people.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 At the Irish seaside course Lahinch, a child made a hole in one on the blind par 3, 155-yard fifth. The bartender did nothing about it.

For many decades, mankind has become more conscious and responsible about the need to recycle. It is my belief that mankind itself has been recycled since the creation of the world, but who am I to declare that? Im not a professor of science; neither am I somebody who is familiar (or should be!) with a padded cell. I am merely a young (all right, middle-aged!) man that experienced near death but survived to tell his story of his world and visions witnessed/seen while in a coma, the relevance of them now, and my thoughts about our future existence. I do not have delusions; neither am I a fantasist. I am as sane as the next man (you ask my pet elephant). Mind you, it depends on who the next man is! Reliving my story has been very intriguing and interesting, and it has developed in me a greater understanding and appreciation of life. Previously unexplainable imagery seen while in a coma was later recognized. But how can I survive this, and in what condition will I emerge? The thoughts and ideas that I express are not intended to offend, and I apologize to anyone who is offended by my words. I am certainly not a preacher; neither do I seek pity.

Bob Harig's Tiger & Phil provides an in-depth chronicle of the decades-long rivalry that drove the success of golf's two biggest stars, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. For more than two decades, there have been two golfers who have captivated, bemused, inspired, frustrated, fascinated, and entertained us, and in doing so have demanded our attention – Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Even with all the ink that has been spilled on Tiger, no one has ever written about his relationship with Phil and how their careers have been inextricably intertwined. Furthermore, very little has been written about Phil Mickelson, who is more than just an adversary. He is a fascinating Hall of Fame golfer in his own right. These two biggest names (and draws) in golf have, for better and for worse, been the ultimate rivals. But it is so much more complicated than that. Each player has pushed the other to be better. They have teased each other and fought. They have battled to the bitter end on the course making for some of the greatest moments in the game for the last 20 years. They have each gone through injury and health problems, legal problems, falling in and out of favor with the press. And over the course of their time together in the game they have gradually become not just rivals but friends. In the tradition of major bestsellers such as Arnie & Jack, When the Game Was Ours, The Rivals, and Brady vs. Manning, Tiger & Phil will change the way we look at these players and the game itself.

Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking campaign season, The New York Times columnist traces the psychologies and pathologies in one of the nastiest and most significant battles of the sexes ever. Dowd has covered Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton since the '90s. She was with the real estate mogul when he shyly approached his first Presidential rope line in 1999, and she won a Pulitzer prize that same year for her penetrating columns on the Clinton impeachment follies. Like her bestsellers, Bushworld and Are Men Necessary?, The Year of Voting Dangerously will feature Dowd's trademark cocktail of wry humor and acerbic analysis in dispatches from the political madhouse. If America is on the escalator to hell, then The Year of Voting Dangerously is the perfect guide for this surreal, insane ride.

Part travelogue, part memoir, a delightful true story of the author, once a member of Harvard's golf team and a former writer for Golf Digest, details his humble beginnings at St. Andrews University in Scotland as a serious, uptight golfer who would do anything to play a great course, but instead emerged a man infinitely wiser with a profound love of the game.

A trip to Paradise... Short-term, Nurse Sarah Mitchell wants to relax on her Fijian holiday. Long-term, she'd love to foster a child. The last things she wants in a fling with a playboy doctor on a Pacific island. Until she discovers she's got Dr. Ben Dawson all wrong...

Just in time for the 40th birthday of television's favorite show, here's an expanded edition of the very sucessful Official Honeymooners Treasury, now complete with material on The Lost Episodes. Included are brief skit synopses, trivia, ratings, and lists of new characters.