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Rick Reilly, senior writer for Sports Illustrated, has written several golf-related novels: “Missing Links”, and the sequel “Shanks For Nothing”. The main character, Ray “Stick” Hart, was groomed from childhood to be a professional golfer, by his father, a member of the bluest-of-the-blueblood Mayflower Club. Having the talent, but not the ambition, Stick rejects this fate, and instead finds happiness at adjoining Ponkaquogue Municipal Course and Deli, a.k.a. the worst golf course in America.
The first book centers around The Bet, where Stick and some of his fellow “Ponkys” see who can be the first to play 18 holes at the Mayflower, the most exclusive course in the country.
The second book, set several years after The Bet, sees Stick challenged to qualify for a Major tournament, for increasingly higher stakes.
Although a little over-the-top, I found both books very funny and entertaining. Those put off by a fair amount of vulgarity may not care for them.
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