Golf Novels

	#2452: THE FRANCHISE BABE (H) Dan Jenkins The legendary Dan Jenkins returns with another over-the-top novel of hijinks on the links. This time the LPGA gets the treatment. Jack Brannon, a golf writer, takes interest in the career of Ginger Clayton, a fiery eighteen-year old with flowing blond locks and a personality that combines mischief and confidence. He sees her as just the kind of star that can take the LPGA to the next level of excitement. She is, indeed, the Franchise Babe and everyone wants a part of her. Jenkins captures the outrageous things that occur when the sports world anoints a new superstar, along the way taking down selfish sports moms, gasbag corporate sponsors, and sleazy sports agents. Only $24.99
	#2428: GOLF'S SACRED JOURNEY (P) Seven Days At The Links Of Utopia David Cook, Ph.D. You never really know when you might meet someone who will change your life. Golf's Sacred Journey is a story about a "chance" meeting between a fictitious golf professional and his unorthodox mentor. As the story unfolds, we-along with the pro-learn lessons about golf and life that we never expected to learn in places we never expected to learn them. "David Cook is a man of faith," writes Tom Lehman in the foreword. "He has made it perfectly clear how faith can and should interact with all areas in our life." Only $21.99
	#2435: CHIP TEES OFF (H) Christina Turner Find out what really happens to all those balls that land in the woods! Follow the wacky adventure of Chip, the golf ball that comes to life, as he makes his way through his first hole. Chant along as Chip soars up, up, up into the air and bounce, bounce, splat into the sand trap. Teach your children a few basics of the game, and meet the animal friends who help Chip navigate the course. The beginner level reader includes a glossary of "golf lingo" and 40 colored pencil illustrations. Only $16.99
	#2412: GOLF DADS (H) Father, Sons, And The Greatest Game Curt Sampson The interplay between father and son has long been one of golf's most essential and enigmatic relationships. Here are ten remarkable stories of golfers, their fathers, and the game that brings them together. Featured are well-know subjects including Michelle Wie, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, David Feherty and others-such as six-year-old phenomenon A.J. Beechler-not yet known to the world. "This is a book about fathers," the author writes, "using golf as a wedge to pry open a few insights." Only $19.99
	#2321: Tommy's Honor - HC by Kevin Cook This story of old and young Tom Morris, golf's founding father and son, provides a vivid account of their colorful, rip-roaring times in mid 19th century Scotland. Both fascinating history and a moving personal saga, this book isn't only for golfers. It's for every son who has fought to escape a father's shadow and for every father who has guided a son toward manhood, then found it hard to let him go. Only $27.50
	#2370: The Match (H) The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever Mark Frost From the best selling author of The Greatest Game Ever Played is this powerful, emotional and suspenseful story of "the greatest private match ever played." The challenge was staged in 1956 by Eddie Lowery, former 10-year old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet, and pitted amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi against Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with 14 major championships between them. In author Mark Frost's peerless hands, the recollections of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day come to life. Only $24.95
	#2342: The Edict A Novel from the Beginnings of Golf By Bob Cupp In this audacious novel, Bob Cupp-the acclaimed golf architect-weaves from historical fact a rich tapestry of sport, intrigue, and politics about a time when the game as we know it was taking recognizable form. By 1457, after centuries of strife in England, Scotland has finally emerged free, independent, and, in the realm of Fife, prosperous. St. Andrews has become famous for its cathedral, its university, and for the game developed out in the linksland by shepherds using balls and clubs to while away the hours. One of them, Caeril Patersone, is sufficiently skilled to compete for the title of champion golfer of the year, but in this quest he must content with not only his competition but also the conniving financier in league with a sordid nobleman, not to mention the ravishing girl they have enlisted to further their interests at his expense. Only $24.95
	#1114 — Golf In The Kingdom - PB- Books Michael Murphy Golf In The Kingdom is the author’s haunting exploration of the mystery and beauty that is at the heart of golf. A young man on his way to India, stops in the Kingdom of Fife to play the legendary and ancient golf club of Burningbush. He is paired with a mysterious and playful teacher named Shivas Irons, who leads him through a day of phenomenal golf and a night of adventures. Golf In The Kingdom is a well written story and like the game itself, the book is a journey revealing both puzzles and pleasures. Michael Murphy is a native Californian who founded the Esalen Institute with Richard Price in 1962. He is a graduate of Stanford University and did further work in the area of philosophy. He is also the author of The Kingdom Of Shivas Irons. Only $15.00
	#1579 — Good Doctor Returns - HC- Books Alister MacKenzie Comes Back To Golf Geoff Shackelford In this novel, the greatest golf course architect of all time, Dr. Alister MacKenzie, returns to see the modern-day game of golf. Hard Cover. Only $19.95
	#1592 — Legend Of Bagger Vance- Books Steven Pressfield Not since Golf In The Kingdom has there been a novel so rich in insight, mysticism and reverence for the game of golf. Bagger Vance emerges as the rightful successor to Shivas Irons as he leads the search for the Authentic Swing. Based on an actual match between Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, Steven Pressfield weaves fact with fiction to create a seamless fantasy which is a must for all golfers. Only $13.00
	#1632--Missing Links - PB- Books Rick Reilly It started with this, so don’t forget to pick up the first book written by the author of Who’s Your Caddy - Missing Links. Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston, have been utterly obsessed with golf for years and are a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli – not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to the municipal course lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston and a major thorn in their collective sides. Frustrated by the Mayflower's finely manicured greens and snooty members, three of Ponky's most courageous – Two Down, Dannie, and Stick – set up a bet: $1,000 apiece, and the first man to finagle his way onto the Mayflower takes all. One of the three will eventually play the course, but their friendships (and everything else) change as various truths unravel and the old Ponky starts looking like the home they never should have left. Only $14.95
	#1724--A Storm at Pebble Beach - HC- Books Harry Forse To quote CBS golf broadcaster Pat Summerall, This "Crown Jewel" is described as "on the edge of a jagged Pacific Coastline lies a golf course that has no equal. It is revered as the ultimate playground, a blend of carpeted fairways, spectacular vistas, and the unending thunderous voice of the pounding surf." Only $22.00
	#1747 — Comics Open - PB- Books Ron Kenney Golf enthusiasts and lovers of a good comic tale will be delighted by this fresh and frolicking new novel. With farcical fun, readers are given a unique and ironic inside glimpse into the world of standup comedy as a group of comics plans a charity golf tournament. Only $9.95
	#1769 — The Putt At The End Of The World- Books Lee K Abbott, Dave Barry, et. al. Sex. Money. International Terrorism. And, of course, the ultimate question: Can a compact backswing save the world? Now, in the tradition of Naked Came the Stranger and Naked Came the Manatee, a clubhouse full of acclaimed authors pass the baton (or six iron) to create an ensemble tour de force of suspense, romance, and hilarity on the links. Only $23.99
	#1785 — Sticks - HC- Books William McMillen Welcome to Stowe Towne, the small Ohio enclave with some of the most interesting characters you've ever met. Some of the town's colorful residents include Howie Howard and Louisa May Miller. They are related to the town's civil war heroes that have a memorial named for them. Robert Redford runs the newspaper, and the Gettysburg Café is across the street where all the rumors originate. Up the road lies the golf course, The Candlesticks, built back in the 1920's. The word is someone is trying to turn it into an "upscale" residential development. Only $22.95
	#1834 — Flatbellies- Golf Books "It's Not About Golf, It's About Life" A.B. Hollingsworth Set in a small Oklahoma town in the emotional mid-1960's - a place that was simple but a time that was confusing - Flatbellies is partly about the seemingly unreachable goal of a high school golf team to win the state championship. Most of all, though, Flatbellies is about the way that Chipper, Jay, L.K., Buster, the unforgettable Peachy and their friends learn to deal with love, loss, friendship, fear, triumph, tragedy, growing up and growing old. Only $22.95
	#1889--Take Dead Aim - HC- Books Don Wade Take Dead Aim is an exciting, wonderfully written novel about an event that could never, ever take place in today's world of professional golf. Or could it? During the final round of the LA Open, the caddie for Peter Brookes - the Number 1 golfer in the world and a hero in his native England - is shot and killed by a sniper in front of a national TV audience. Making the murder even more mysterious is the fact that the victim was standing next to Dexter Bradley, the young African-American golf sensation on the verge of becoming the most popular figure in the game. The question is… was the caddie the real target? Or was it Bradley? Or Brookes? Only $22.95

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