So Help Me Golf

This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he feel in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, extremely cool, and utterly captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the worst golfer in America who just can't quit, and the one memberof a billionaire's golf club. Reilly will mine all of the game's quirky traditions from the shot of bourbon you take before you tee off at Peyton Manning's course to the way the starter at St. Andrews announces to your group. We'll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world, including the course in Iceland made entirely of ice, and the one in the Caribbean mention the greatest mini golf course ever built. Reilly will detail the greatest 18 golf shots ever hit on Earth. He will admire and unload on all the great figures in the game, beginning with the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods, right along to the fifty things you don't know about Tiger Woods. He will explain all the reasons why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau, unless we hate genius; the glory of Michelle Wie, and why she doesn't give a damn what you think; the ever-resilient Charles Barkley, who carries on playing golf despite God hating him; and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before, and the great fun of being Jim Nantz. It's a cornucopia of golf lore that no golfer will want to be without.