Teed Off!: A Modern Guide to Golf
By Tom Carey
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Are those fuzzy alligator head covers really necessary? And are pro golfers actually getting paid to do this?
The answers to these and many other questions, plus the Ten Commandments of Modern Golf and a glossary of terms, definitions and swear words will keep you laughing all the way from the first tee to the clubhouse.
Tom Carey
Tom Carey is the author of The Marriage Dictionary and How to Throw a Golf Club (both Sourcebooks 2005). He lives in Hudson, Ohio.
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Teed Off! - Tom Carey
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Golf:
Harmless Game
or Evil Curse?
The game of golf is a mysterious thing. Its history is shrouded in legend, myth, and lore. It is a game rich in arcane rules and time-honored customs; the traditional pastime of gentlemen and ladies of breeding for more than a hundred years. It is a test of skill, a test of nerve, and a test of imagination.
It is a test of skill when you've got 165 yards left from a flyer lie to a tiny little green, with a pin tucked behind one of those ridiculous Robert Trent Jones, you-gotta-be-freakin'-kidding-me railroad-tie bunkers. It is a test of nerve when you need to drain a sidehill five-footer on some car-hood-fast, 13-on-the-Stimpmeter green to save triple bogey. And it is a test of imagination when you've got to explain to the wife why the new set of perimeter-weighted irons you got was more important than last month's car payment.
Yes, golf has evolved tremendously in the last hundred years. Equipment has changed, rules have changed, and hardly anyone wears a kilt anymore.
This book was written to help today's golfer become a golfer unbound by ancient rules and old traditions. A golfer unafraid to wipe the beer from his face, tee it up with his naked-lady tee, swing from the heels with his brand-new, $600 TaylorMade driver with a head as big as a Volkswagen, and watch proudly as his mighty clout sails into the great beyond. A golfer unafraid, then, to take a mulligan.
A History of
the Game:
How Did It Begin…And
Is It Too Late to Stop It?
The Morrises: Young Tom, Olde Tom, and Other People with Ridiculous Names
The game of golf was invented in St. Andrews, a small seaside village in Scotland, in the late nineteenth century by Olde Tom Morris and his son, Young Tom Morris. (The Scots are notoriously unimaginative when it comes to naming their kids.) They were sitting by Loch Ness one typically dark, rainy afternoon with their cameras waiting for the monster to surface, when Young Tom, bored with trying to keep the rain off his camera lens, absentmindedly took a swipe at a stone on the beach with his walking stick.
As fate would have it, he struck the stone a solid blow, and it flew straight at an old, gnarled oak tree some yards away. The two Morrises were intrigued. As they walked up to the tree Olde Tom said, I'll bet ye five bob ye kin nawt strike the tree wi' another stroke.
An intense look came over Young Tom's ruddy features. Though the rock lay just three feet from the tree, Young Tom began to shake and sweat from the pressure of his father's challenge.
C'mon lad! Et's but a wee bit away! What the matter? Can't ye take the pressure, ya sniveling pantywaist?!
Young Tom brandished his walking stick menacingly and growled at his father, Shut yer gob, mon, or I'll shut it for ya!
His blood racing, his heart pounding, Young Tom waggled his walking stick at least a dozen times before he was able to swing at the stone again. And of course, he missed the little putt. Furious, he smashed his stick against the tree, breaking it to pieces, and screamed, It's the devil's oon game we've invented, and I'll ne'er play it agin!
Of course,