My Usual Game: Adventures in Golf

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Destined to become a classic of golf literature, this hilarious and wonderfully litrate tour through the sometimes peculiar culture of this popular sport chronicles Owen's funny and enlightening quest to come to terms with a game that has frustrated and fascinated him since childhood. "Owen's droll asides are as memorable as a chip-in birdie".--People.

Published just in time for Father's Day, this engagingly witty discourse takes readers along on Owen's golfing ...

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Destined to become a classic of golf literature, this hilarious and wonderfully litrate tour through the sometimes peculiar culture of this popular sport chronicles Owen's funny and enlightening quest to come to terms with a game that has frustrated and fascinated him since childhood. "Owen's droll asides are as memorable as a chip-in birdie".--People.

Published just in time for Father's Day, this engagingly witty discourse takes readers along on Owen's golfing adventures--playing the Masters course in Augusta, touring Ireland's greatest greens, meeting the sport's real millionaires (the equipment manufacturers), and chatting with local duffers. Line drawings.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Owen The Walls Around Us sounds like a reasonable human being but for his obsession with golf: as he puts it, ``Monks feel about God the way I feel about golf.'' But even those who spurn the links as the territory of white, fat-cat Republicans Owen admits to a bit of unease on that score will enjoy reading his reasons for loving the sport, a most compelling one being that ``golf is life simplified and improved.'' Also of interest are his visits to famous courses in Scotland and Ireland; his sessions in a golf camp, which actually helped to improve his play; and his theories on golf as male bonding and a means of escape from females. Everything in the book sails over the sand traps except for an overlong and boring chapter on the Ryder Cup matches, which pit the U.S. against an all-Europe team and are played alternately in the U.S. and Europe. Many of the entries in this collection first appeared in such periodicals as Esquire, Golf Digest and The New Yorker. Author tour. June
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780385483384
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/1/1996
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 1,335,516
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Table of Contents

My Usual Game 3
Going to Camp 25
Gowff 51
The Emperor of Golf 89
In the Hunt 115
In Sight of Ireland's Eye 139
Grown Men on Spring Break 160
Playing on the Partners Tour 179
A Country for Old Men 195
America's Best 234
Acknowledgments 269
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