Missing Links | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Reilly
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 571485
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 278
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385474431
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385474436
ASIN: 0385474431
Publication Date: May 1, 1996
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Amazon.com Review
From Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly comes this spoof of all things golf and country club. Missing Links recounts the tale of a coterie of golfing friends who ply their hobby at Ponkoquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli. An 18-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a concrete river surrounded by a chain-link fence and the pillars of the elevated train that runs through the course, it is reputed to be the worst golf course in America. One day the group inadvertently discovers that all along they've been playing right next door to the Mayflower Club, a true golfing Eden. The rollicking plot includes a bet to see who will be first to sneak in a round at the Mayflower, as well as the narrator's attempts to reach some sort of reasonable understanding with his overbearing father.
Product Description
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 golf course in America. Just adjacent to these municipal links lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston and a major needle in their collective sides. Frustrated by the Mayflower's finely manicured greens and snooty members, three of Ponky's finest and most courageous--Two Down, Dannie, and Stick--set up a bet: $1,000.00 apiece, and the first man to somehow finagle his way on to the Mayflower course takes all. Lying, cheating, and forgery are encouraged, to put it mildly, and with the constant heckling and rare aid of Chunkin' Charlie, Hoover, and Bluto--a few more of Ponky's elite--the games begin.
One of the three will eventually play the Mayflower's course, but their friendships--and everything else--will change as various truths unravel and the old Ponky starts looking like the home they never should have left.
Missing Links is a tremendously funny and fun-spirited novel about the smaller pleasures in life, and the perfect gift for anyone who is even remotely in love with the game of golf.
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 Good, but where's the golf? October 8, 2008
I haven't read this myself, but when I asked the recipient how it was, he said that he liked it, but flet like the golf was just window dressing. Now, this is a serious golf fanatic, so he rarely thinks there's enough golf. He's also not a big reader, so the fact that he read it through was a pretty strong indicator that it was engaging.
 Missing Links July 8, 2008
Great book!!! For Men that golf (or are golf nuts - as it were). In addition to being a "salty" golf yarn about a bet amoung friends, the story includes real life problems and how to deal with them (uuhhh well maybe not). Fun and quick.
A Family Favorite January 9, 2008
My entire family loves this book. I don't think you have to be a golfer to enjoy it but it sure can't hurt. I have given this book to many a golfer friend and everyone likes it. Very funny. Lots of smiles and laughs throughout! I'd give it 6 stars if I could.
Masculine "chick lit"? August 9, 2007
I had read this book right after reading a popular "chick lit" book and was struck by how similar the plot line was and how different the details were. In both instances, the characters were trying to meet a particular challenge. In Missing Links the challenge was to be the first to play a round in the elite golf course next door, where, I suppose, the grass is greener on the other side.
This book was a perfect choice for summer vacation reading. Quite entertaining and not too taxing. Sprinkled among the details were allusions to local features that someone from the East and older than 40 would remember.
I enjoyed the book and recommend it to anyone seeking light reading and entertainment.
 Missing More Than Links August 3, 2007
Wow. I'm really surprised at all the positive reviews of this book. Did we read the same novel? I had to force myself to finish this, and I'm a big Rick Reilly fan. Another page, another recycled joke written a much flatter tone than Reilly normally uses. Maybe if he'd gone with a 3rd person perspective instead of a 1st person I would have been more receptive. As it was, I never really got the sense that this was a real person/character telling this incredibly predictable story. There are some nice touches in this book, notably when he's talking about golfing with his uncle and really developing a passion for the game. But, more than anything, those touches are way too few and far between. Unless I'd recently received some sort of lobotomy, I'd move on to different book.
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