Golf Nuts: You've Got to Be Committed

by Ron Garland

Overview

These are the folks who practice chip shots in elevators with invisible wedges. These are the people on the golf course in parkas on the first day the temperature tops 30 degrees. These are the junkies who spend hundreds of hours searching pharmaceutical companies' websites for a cure for the "yips". These golfers are "nuts" and the anecdotal stories of Golf Nuts are proof. In pathological putting circles, author Ron Garland is known as the "Head Nut" of the Golf Nuts Society, an organization that he founded which now boasts a vast membership of "nuts", and these are his favorite accounts from a group of seemingly normal people with an abnormal obsession.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585360666
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	10/01/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	239
Product dimensions:	5.79(w) x 7.27(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Ron Garland is the founder of the Golf Nuts Society. He was born and raised in southern California. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Judy. They have one son, Ryan, and one daughter, Kristin. None of the rest of his family is a Golf Nut. After getting his Bachelor’s degree in education from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, Garland taught for two years and then entered sales where he has been working for over 30 years. He won the Oregon Amateur in 1986. His hobbies include golf, golf, golf, golf, golf, golf, and oh yes, fly fishing and creative design.

Brian Hewitt is Senior Editor of Golfweek magazine where he oversees the Golfweek Preferred section of the publication. He was born in Princeton, NJ and raised in Chicago. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, National Sports Daily and Chicago Sun Times. He has won several writing awards from the Golf Writers Association of America. He received a B.A. in Communications from Stanford University. He has authored on other book: Refrigerator Perry and the Monsters of the Midway, a book about the 1995 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears. He now resides in Orlando, FL.

Table of Contents

Introduction...The Disease.

1st Hole...Early Symptoms.

2nd Hole...The Nuts Get Organized.

3rd Hole...Nut Bowl I.

4th Hole...The Prez.

5th Hole..."Joe".

6th Hole...Michael Jordan, Nut #0023.

7th Hole...These Celebrities Are Nuts Too!

8th Hole...Golf Nut Greats.

9th Hole...It's Golf or Me!

10th Hole...What, Me Work?

11th Hole...The Heavy Stuff.

12th Hole...I'll Take It!

13th Hole...The Collectors.

14th Hole...The Truly Committed.

15th Hole..."I Love This Game!"

16th Hole..."I Hate This Game!"

17th Hole...The Search for "The Secret".

18th Hole...There Is No Cure.

19th Hole...Dear Head Nut.

Nut Notes.

GNS Fact Sheet.

Celebrity Members.

Golf Nut Record Book.

The Golf Nut's Glossary.

Golf Nut Quiz.

GNS Membership Application.