Fairways and greens : the best golf writing of Dan Jenkins
معرفی کتاب «Fairways and greens : the best golf writing of Dan Jenkins» نوشتهٔ Dan Jenkins، منتشرشده توسط نشر Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group در سال 2001. این کتاب در فرمت epub، زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است.
Introduced in Dan Jenkins’s previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware that only a small group of stars have ever won a major at his age or older, and among them are such immortals as Nicklaus, Boros, Irwin, and Trevino. It's now or never for Bobby Joe, and excuse him for thinking that his chances are slim and none.
So it's off to the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and the rest of the PGA Tour for Bobby Joe, who's leaving behind the prospect of a third ex-wife. On the golf courses he'll face familiar competitors such as Knut Thorssun and Cheetah Farmer, but the rival who may loom the largest is the game's newest child star, nineteen-year-old Scott Benson. His talents are the talk of the Tour—so is his arrogance—and so, by the way, is his stunning mom, Gwendolyn, a shapely, adorable woman who captures Bobby Joe's full attention and threatens not to let go.
Long revered by his peers as one of the world's best sportswriters, and beloved by readers for such classics as Semi-Tough and Dead Solid Perfect, Dan Jenkins is at the top of his form in Slim and None. It's packed with authentic insider gems about each of the majors and hilarious sketches of many of the characters—touring pros, officials, media, agents, caddies, and ladies—who inhabit this outrageous and endearing world of sports.
Author Bio:
DAN JENKINS is the author of nine previous novels, including Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, Baja Oklahoma, Rude Behavior, and most recently The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist. He has also published seven books of nonfiction, most notably Fairways and Greens and The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate. He writes an enduringly popular monthly column for Golf Digest. He divides his time between his native Fort Worth, Texas, and New York City.
Library Journal
Remember Bobby Joe Grooves from Jenkins's The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist? He realizes that he'd better win the next golf tournament-or else. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
jack Brannon, A Golf Writer In His Forties Who Has Been Bunkered More Than Once In The Marriage Game, Covers The Sport For A Big-time Magazine. Bored With The Pga, He Decides To Check Out “the Lolitas,” On The Lpga Tour. Jack Chooses As A Magazine Subject Ginger Clayton, A Fiery Eighteen-year Old Whose Killer Looks And Killer Game Make Her The Kind Of Star Who Can Take The Lpga To The Next Level. She Is, Indeed, The Franchise Babe, And Everyone Wants A Part Of Her, But Someone, It Seems, Is Trying To Knock Ginger Out Of The Competition-permanently. Filled With Dead-on Take Downs Of Sports Moms, Adventurous Promoters, Suck-up Corporate Sponsors, Double-dealing Sports agents, And Just Enough Menace To Make Golf Dangerous, Dan Jenkins Latest Tale Of Hijinks On The Links Is Not To Be Missed.
publishers Weekly
in Jenkins's Outrageous Sports Satire (after slim And None ), Middle-aged Sportswriter Jack Brannon Is Sick Of Writing About Tiger Woods And The Boring Testosterone-charged Pga Tour. So The Swaggering Texan Decides To Check Out The Ladies Of The Lpga, Specifically Hot Teen Sensation And Fellow Texan, Ginger Clayton. She's A Fiery Eighteen-year-old Blonde With The Potential To Become The Next Golf Superstar (or, In Pro Golf Parlance, A Real Franchise Babe). Soon, Jack Is Impressed By Thurlene, Ginger's Gorgeous Single Mom, And Enamored Of Ginger's Talent, Beauty And Precocious Professionalism. He Decides To Tag Along, Taking Notes And Observing The Peculiar Peccadilloes Of Professional Sports-including Crazed Stage-golf Moms And Others Who'll Stop At Nothing To Get Ahead In The High-stakes Game. Jenkins Pokes Fun At The Golf World Eccentricities He Knows So Well And Allows Jack Major Leeway In Making Smart-mouth Commentary As He Falls In Love And Gets A Great Scoop. (june)
copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. "Tell me about plumbing, fine. Tell me about carpentry, terrace gardening, the timer on VCRs. Go ahead and explain cellophane. Tell me about all of these things, but don't try to tell me about golf, okay? Golf I know."--Dan JenkinsAfter four decades of covering golf-not to mention "playing scratch from the blues and gambling for my own money when I didn't have any", Dan Jenkins most definitely knows golf. He may, in fact, know the game better than anyone on the planet. Now, his latest and long awaited collection brings together his best writing on the game, from serious pieces on timeless classics like the 1954 Masters and the 1960 Open to humorous takes on everything from the best things in golf-the best bar is Club XIX in the Pebble Beach Lodge-to his unrequited love of golf carts. With a cast that includes everyone from Hogan, Palmer, and Nicklaus to all of the lurkers and spoilers on the PGA Tour, the book is a timeless addition to great golf literature.
After four decades of covering golf--not to mention "playing scratch from the blues and gambling for my own money when I didn't have any"--Dan Jenkins most definitely knows golf. His latest and long-awaited collection brings together his best writing on the game, from serious pieces on timeless classics like the 1954 Masters to humorous takes on such things as his unrequited love of golf carts.
Introduced in Dan Jenkins's previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware that only a small group of stars have ever won a major at his age or older, and among them are such immortals as Nicklaus, Boros, Irwin, and Trevino. It's now or never for Bobby Joe, and excuse him for thinking that his chances are slim and none.So it's off to the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and the rest of the PGA Tour for Bobby Joe, who's leaving behind the prospect of a third ex-wife. On the golf courses he'll face familiar competitors such as Knut Thorssun and Cheetah Farmer, but the rival who may loom the largest is the game's newest child star, nineteen-year-old Scott Pritchard. His talents are the talk of the Tour—so is his arrogance—and so, by the way, is his stunning mom, Gwendolyn, a shapely adorable woman who captures Bobby Joe's full attention and threatens not to let go. Long revered by his peers as one of the world's best sportswriters, and beloved by readers for such classics as Semi-Tough and Dead Solid Perfect, Dan Jenkins is at the top of his form in Slim and None. It's packed with authentic insider gems about each of the majors and hilarious sketches of many of the characters—touring pros, officials, media, agents, caddies, and ladies—who inhabit this outrageous and endearing world of sports. Introduced in Dan Jenkinss previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist , Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware that only a small group of stars have ever won a major at his age or older, and among them are such immortals as Nicklaus, Boros, Irwin, and Trevino. Its now or never for Bobby Joe, and excuse him for thinking that his chances are slim and none. So its off to the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and the rest of the PGA Tour for Bobby Joe, whos leaving behind the prospect of a third ex-wife. On the golf courses hell face familiar competitors such as Knut Thorssun and Cheetah Farmer, but the rival who may loom the largest is the games newest child star, nineteen-year-old Scott Pritchard. His talents are the talk of the Tourso is his arroganceand so, by the way, is his stunning mom, Gwendolyn, a shapely adorable woman who captures Bobby Joes full attention and threatens not to let go. Long revered by his peers as one of the worlds best sportswriters, and beloved by readers for such classics as Semi-Tough and Dead Solid Perfect , Dan Jenkins is at the top of his form in Slim and None . Its packed with authentic insider gems about each of the majors and hilarious sketches of many of the characterstouring pros, officials, media, agents, caddies, and ladieswho inhabit this outrageous and endearing world of sports.The best golf writer on the planet returns with his funniest book ever.
Dan Jenkins virtually invented the golf novel with Dead Solid Perfect, his rollicking account of the life and times of touring pro Kenny Lee Puckett. After thirty years of waiting for the follow-up, Jenkins returns to the world of big-time golf in The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist and finds a world where endorsements and course fashion matter more than the side bet. His hero, Bobby Joe Grooves, is a hell-raising two-iron-wielding rogue trying to turn his one annual tournament win and considerable Texas charm into a spot on the Ryder Cup team. Standing between Bobby Joe and his little spot of golf heaven are two ex-wives, a girlfriend, various pious PGA officials, and his embarrassing lack of a career major. A book that will teach you more about golf history than any weepy sunset-over-the-eighteenth-green retrospective, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist is an uproarious portrait of what it’s really like to play on the PGA Tour. It’s vintage Dan Jenkins.
Among the provocative social phenomena of our time, few have caught the public fancy as profoundly as that quintessentially American species known as Bubba. The conventional notion of Bubba is a Southern redneck who thinks a rented movie and a six-pack are quality entertainment. According to Dan Jenkins, this historical view has been advanced largely by "effete Easterners and West Coast ponytails who claim to like trout pizza and fat novels written by some kind of Ecuadorian." Granted, says Jenkins, there is more than one Bubba from Georgia who has spray-painted his girl's name on an overpass. But there is also more than one Bubba from Chicago who will do his Christmas shopping at Graceland. Bubba, Jenkins concludes, is a state of mind, and he proceeds to let Bubba define himself by speaking on topics ranging from beer to ballet, from haircuts to the homeless. Dan Jenkins has covered 197 of golf's major championships over the last 60 years--a record that is likely to stand as long as Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. This collection brings together 94 of Jenkins' pieces on the majors, written mostly for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest; strung together, Jenkins says in his introduction, "they would make the longest par five in the history of journalism." Not only the longest, but one of the most entertaining. Jenkins is known for his raucous humor--the defining quality in his best-selling novels, including Semi-Tough--and that signature wit is everywhere evident in his golf journalism as well Kenny Lee Puckett has yet to find game and fortune as a professional golfer, but he keeps swinging, hoping to make a name for himself. One of many fringe players on the tour, Puckett has been no more successful on the marriage circuit. Despite the old adage, the third time isn't the charm, as Puckett seems certain to see another walk down the aisle end up in divorce court. Still, there's always the promise of the greens, and Puckett is gunning for a U.S. Open title that could turn everything aroundThe legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author.
Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some, Kenny Lee Puckett, the star of Jenkins's ribald saga, is a more important figure in the history of golf than Bobby Jones himself.