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Tables of Contents for The First Chapbook for Golfers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
I. THE TEXAS TWOSOME (A Coupl'a Good-Old-Boys Explain it All)
Harvey Penick and James Michener
2
11
Bud Shrake
The Host Club
13
7
Dan Jenkins
II. THE SWEET SPOT (Why We Do This)
Last Evening Light
20
5
Chris Hodenfield
The Mystery of Golf
25
2
Arnold Haultain
Keep Your Eye on the Ball
27
2
Grantland Rice
Kipling Courageous
29
2
A Diversion in the Fields Called the Links
31
2
Tobias Smollett
The Greatest Shot Ever Landed
33
3
III. GOLF SPELLED BACKWARDS IS ``FLOG'' (Why Do We Do This?)
An Unlucky Golfer
36
5
A. A. Milne
How to Make a Hole in Nine
41
2
Grantland Rice
A Golfer's Wish
43
3
Edgar Guest
The Most Absorbing Game
46
3
A. J. Balfour
The Golfer's Prayer
49
3
Ring Lardner
IV. GET A GRIP (The Psychology of the Game)
Joyce Wethered's One-Track Mind
52
2
A Snapshot in Time: Fred Couples
54
3
Jeff Silverman
We Can't All Be Idiots
57
1
Sir Walter Simpson
Of Yippers, Twitchers and Jitterers
58
6
Peter Dobereiner
Upon Winning One's Flight in the Senior Four-Ball
64
4
John Updike
V. THE LEADERBOARD (Legends of Golf)
The Ultimates
68
1
Whoo-Ha, Arnie!
69
13
Dan Jenkins
In Conversation with Ben Crenshaw
82
5
The King and His Plaque
87
1
Watching Hogan Practice
88
2
Pat Ward-Thomas
On Golf, Baseball, DiMaggio and Williams
90
3
Sam Snead
What Spooks the Bear
93
5
VI. THE FAIRWAYEST OF THEM ALL (Women and Golf)
A Woman's Handicap Begins Off-Course
98
7
Glenna Collett-Vare
A Course of Their Own
105
3
Marcia Chambers
Tee for Two Genders
108
8
Amy Bennet Pascoe
VII. READING THE GREEN (Course Design)
The Course Beautiful
116
4
A. W. Tillinghast
Left-Handed Golf Courses
120
6
Rube Goldberg
Why There's No Crying in Golf
126
2
John L. Low
A Plea for Indoor Golf
128
3
P. G. Wodehouse
On the Old Course at St. Andrews
131
8
Bernard Darwin
The Golf Holes at Augusta National
139
5
VIII. THE UN-LIE-ABLE PLAY (Etiquette and Sportsmanship)
What's Good for the Goose...
144
4
Art Buchwald
The Inequity of Golf
148
2
Charles Blair Macdonald
Disease, Diagnosis and Cure
150
4
Timothy Ward
The Original Thirteen
154
2
Keep the Rules and They Keep You
156
6
Colman McCarthy
Golf in Times of War
162
2
Is Mulligan the Metaphor for the Clinton Presidency?
164
6
Don Van Natta Jr.
Shush!!! An Authority on Athaletics Makes a Suggestion
170
6
Ring Lardner
Of Nerve and Cordiality
176
8
Horace G. Hutchinson
IX. CLUBS, COURSES, AND CLUBS (The Infrastructure)
Why Your New Driver Cost So Much
184
2
...And Where to Make the Most of It
186
3
Some Experiments and Observations
189
4
O. B. Keeler
A Game of Inches
193
1
In Conversation with Richard Mackenzie
194
6
Brassie Please: What's in a Name?
200
4
X. DRIVE, HE SAID (The How-To's of Golf)
Practice Doesn't Make Perfect
204
7
Roger Maltbie
In Conversation with Raymond Floyd
211
6
School Daze
217
9
Jeff Silverman
The Cleverest Tip
226
2
In Conversation with Curt Schilling
228
6
XI. FICTIONAL FESCUE (The Game of Golf in Literature)
The Only Two Acceptable Theories
234
7
Ron Shelton
John Norville
Unshaken by Goldfinger, Bond Puts on a Stirring Display
241
6
Ian Fleming
On the First Tee with Rabbit Angstrom
247
3
John Updike
Ten Intriguing Golf Mysteries
250
XII. THE LIST
The List
252