My Usual Game: Adventures in Golf
Owen, David (Author)
ISBN: 0385483384
Publisher: Main Street Books
Binding: Paperback; 288 pages
Pub Date: May 01, 1996
My Usual Game chronicles Owen's funny and enlightening quest to come to terms with a game that defeated him as a child. He rescues his swing at golf school, plays the great courses of the British Isles, spends a week with the inventor of the modern golf club, nearly wins the three-day pro-am at a tournament on the PGA Tour, travels with three golf-crazed friends to Myrtle Beach (where "obsessive viewing of the Weather Channel is the closest thing to an organized religion"), follows Fred Couples and Paul Azinger at the Ryder Cup, discovers what may be the darkest secret of the golf swing ("the difference between a slice and a draw is a certain number of beers"), trims his handicap from more than forty to a single digit, and lives out every serious golfer's fantasy by playing the dozen best courses in America, including Pine Valley, Cypress Point, and Shinnecock Hills.
David Owen is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of 14 books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman.
Owen, David (Author)
ISBN: 0385483384
Publisher: Main Street Books
Binding: Paperback; 288 pages
Pub Date: May 01, 1996
My Usual Game chronicles Owen's funny and enlightening quest to come to terms with a game that defeated him as a child. He rescues his swing at golf school, plays the great courses of the British Isles, spends a week with the inventor of the modern golf club, nearly wins the three-day pro-am at a tournament on the PGA Tour, travels with three golf-crazed friends to Myrtle Beach (where "obsessive viewing of the Weather Channel is the closest thing to an organized religion"), follows Fred Couples and Paul Azinger at the Ryder Cup, discovers what may be the darkest secret of the golf swing ("the difference between a slice and a draw is a certain number of beers"), trims his handicap from more than forty to a single digit, and lives out every serious golfer's fantasy by playing the dozen best courses in America, including Pine Valley, Cypress Point, and Shinnecock Hills.
David Owen is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of 14 books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman.
Owen, David (Author)
ISBN: 0385483384
Publisher: Main Street Books
Binding: Paperback; 288 pages
Pub Date: May 01, 1996
My Usual Game chronicles Owen's funny and enlightening quest to come to terms with a game that defeated him as a child. He rescues his swing at golf school, plays the great courses of the British Isles, spends a week with the inventor of the modern golf club, nearly wins the three-day pro-am at a tournament on the PGA Tour, travels with three golf-crazed friends to Myrtle Beach (where "obsessive viewing of the Weather Channel is the closest thing to an organized religion"), follows Fred Couples and Paul Azinger at the Ryder Cup, discovers what may be the darkest secret of the golf swing ("the difference between a slice and a draw is a certain number of beers"), trims his handicap from more than forty to a single digit, and lives out every serious golfer's fantasy by playing the dozen best courses in America, including Pine Valley, Cypress Point, and Shinnecock Hills.
David Owen is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of 14 books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman.
Review Quotes:
"Owen's droll asides are as memorable as a chip-in birdie."-- People
"Mr. Owen's style might be best described as part John Updike and part Johnny Miller."-- Newsweek