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Maybe It Should Have Been a Three-Iron: My Year As a Caddy for the World's 438th Best Golfer
by Lawrence Donegan
Product Group: Book
Publisher: St Martins Pr (1998-06)
ISBN: 0312185847
EAN: 9780312185848
Dewy Decimal #: 796.352092
Hardcover: 241 pages
SKU: 0061070
Condition: Fine
Comments: Clean, crisp, bright & tight, suitable for giving as a gift. Book looks unread, like a new book but for one small ding bottom edge front cover, from shelf. DJ has very modest edgewear, mainly top front.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Maybe It Should Have Been a Three-Iron is the funny and poignant story of one man's search for sporting glory. Lawrence Donegan had the desire but lacked the talent to be a professional golfer, so he settled for the next best thing--caddying for Ross Drummond, a little-known pro on the European PGA tour, ranking 438th in the world. With self-deprecating humor, Donegan recounts the days and endless nights he spent on the road with Drummond as they existed on a string of meager tournament checks and chased the elusive "big win" much as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza chased winmills.
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Amazon.com Review
The opening sentences of Donegan's delightful romp through the European golf world sets its tone: "The first thing to understand about caddying is it's not brain surgery. It's more complicated than that," and the next couple of hundred pages prove the point. Put a hapless golf fanatic like Donegan, a journalist by trade, on the bag of another hapless golf fanatic-- British pro Ross Drummond, who would probably be more successful in another line of work--and the results, no matter how hard they try to play it straight, are as wayward as a duck hook off the tee. Funnier than writer Michael Bamberger's trenchant recounting of his exploits carrying Peter Teravainen's bag in To the Linksland, Donegan's chronicle is a self-effacing romp from beginning to end, though some hard-learned lessons manage to creep in along the way: "I was an amateur, crap at it..., just like millions of others. So what? It didn't mean I couldn't have a good time making a fool of myself... What was it A.A. Milne had said about golf? It was the best game in the world to be bad at. Let that be my motto." Of course, it was Milne who also happened to create Eeyore. -- Jeff Silverman
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