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The
“King of Clubs, The Great Golf Marathon of
1938”
writtenby JimDucibella, isagolf adventure
involving,awinner-take-allwager,anunbelievable
feat of endurance and transcontinental travel
during the Great Depression.
Ducibella weaves a story of an unbelievable
golf exploit, dreamed up to promote air
conditioners and the 1938 World’s Fair
held in New York. It involves wealthy
businessmen, con-artists, big-time gamblers,
and the grueling task of playing 600 holes
of golf, in eight different cities, from the Los
Angeles to New York, in just four days.
FDR was in the White House, Adolph Hitler
was rattling war drums in Europe and plush
private jet travel was not an option. The
challenge and herculean feat of golf was
conceived over drinks and was born from a
wager involving 500 acres of prime Virginia
real estate.
This book will appeal to history buffs and
provides an inside look at golf in the late 30’s,
as well as an insight on how businessmen
with big egos liked to have an occasional
wager to add a little spice to their golf.
Craig Brass has a rather unique, self-
depreciating humor that works well in his
book,
“How to Quit Golf.”As Brass points
out, there are books about the history of golf,
where to play, how
to swing my way, his
way and that-a-way,
but zero books about
how to quit golf.
Brass uses his tongue-
in-cheek
humor
to comically poke
fun at golfers and
question the sanity
of chasing a little
white ball around a cow pasture. Alcoholics
Anonymous’ 12 Step Program provides the
basis for the book and he combines his own
personal struggles with the game, he so
dearly loves.
Actor Jeff Daniels penned the foreward for
the book and relates a true story about how
both, he and Brass questioned their devotion
to the game, wondering why they continued
to play the silly game after a particularly
disappointing round.
If you have or ever had questions about the “Rules of Golf,” Richard Todd helps make them easier to understand in his book,
“Short Stories from
the Long Links.” By
using
sometimes
humorous,
but
always timely stories
from the golf course,
he guides the reader
through
murky
waters of, is it a red
stake or a yellow
stake hazard, to
better understand the
often misinterpreted rule book.
Todd is an expert on the golf rules, has been
interviewed on several radio shows and
contributes a regular column on the rules of
golf to NWO Golf Links.
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