BooksRock.com - Kids Books At Amazing Low Prices!

David Owen takes a delightfully irreverent look at the game of golf and all the absurd behavior it inspires. He plays a game with which we are all familiar--he takes mulligans off the first tee, practices intermittently at best, marks his ball on the green with his lucky coin, until the luck wears out, and struggles for consistency even though his swing is consistently mediocre. He bets, he wins, he loses, he agonizes, he dreams.

Through the essays in this book, most of which appeared in Golf Digest in a slightly different form, Owen takes the mundane aspects of the game, and how we approach it, and stands them on their head, turns them inside out, and lays our follies bare for all the world to see. He also finds humor and nobility in our essential silliness, as expressed in our pursuit of a little white ball over a vast--but not vast enough to contain our slices--greensward.

David Owen is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a contributing editor to Golf Digest. He is the author of several books, including The First National Bank of Dad, The Chosen One, My Usual Game, and The Making of the Masters. He and his family live in Northwest Connecticut.

Barrett Whitener has been narrating audiobooks since 1992. His recordings have won several awards, including the prestigious Audie Award and numerous Earphones Awards. AudioFile magazine has named him one of the Best Voices of the Century.