Wonderful new addition to the Yellow Jersey Shorts series - an affecting memoir of one man's obsession with the arcane mysteries of the game of golf. Destined to become a classic Weather, hazards, lack of technique or practice, poor coordination, erratic biorythyms, hangovers, an unruly mind and statistical improbability - these are just a few of the obstacles to hitting a pure golf shot Che Guevara, Alice Cooper, Dennis Hopper, and Tiger Woods have all struggled with the above to a greater or lesser degree. And, since being initiated as a child into the arcane mysteries of the game of golf, Timothy O'Grady too has carried in his mind an obsession with the sport, shrugging off its social unacceptability and embracing its history, its literature and his own private battle with the club. The obsession has, at times, been all-consuming and On Golf is structured around a personal history - how his father played and taught his son, how it dominated his teenage years, his adulation of Arnold Palmer, what it was like to eventually beat his father and how they both continued to talk manically about the game even as his father lay fading away in the bed in which he would die. When not playi