Badger's Golf Compendium: The Essential Illustrated Handbook For Clubhouse Bores: 2 (Badger Sport Humour)

Edworthy, Niall

ISBN 10: 1738452247 / ISBN 13: 9781738452248

Published by Badger Books, 2024

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Seller Inventory # rev9400229706

Synopsis:

A wickedly funny A to Z of golfing terms, the perfect gift for anyone who has ever taken to the fairways.

This irreverent handbook is packed with over 400 of the funniest slang words, outrageous phrases and bizarre jargon as used daily by professionals and social golfers around the world.

Essential laugh-out-loud reading for all players and followers of sport's most infuriating game, packed with witty and weird jargon from the world's clubhouses and fairways.

Adolf Hitler, Airmail, Amen Corner, Army Golf ... Bandit, Brassie, Brazilian, Breakfast Ball ... Ferret, Flub, Flusher, Fried Egg ... Rabbit, Rickshaw, Ryanair, Rushdie ... Waggle, Whiff, Wise (Dennis), Wormburner... this comprehensive glossary contains over 400 curious and laugh-out-loud words and phrases from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.

Few sports can claim a heritage as ancient as golf, and few are richer in error-strewn comedy, spiteful asides and bizarre terminology. This delightfully illustrated edition will provoke a laugh from every page.

From St. Andrews to Augusta, Royal St. George's to The Royal Melbourne, Sunningdale to Sun City, Pebble Beach to Pine Valley... golfers share the same funny language, united in humour and exasperation by the same challenges, hazards, obstacles and errors.

This densely packed volume of hilarious terms will appeal to every golf enthusiast and clubhouse bore ever to have found themselves on a Claggy Lie on a Goat Track, pulled out the Hand Wedge deep in the Cabbage or smashed a Ferret out of the Kitty Litter, the perfect gift for golf tragics around the globe.

Sample Entries
Captain Kirk – Wild shot, going where no shot has gone before
Son-in-law – Of a shot that you weren’t really hoping for, but it will just about do
Cuban – Ball just short of the hole that needed another revolution to get in
Laurel & Hardy - Fat shot followed by a thin one, or vice-versa
Mouth Wedge – A golfer who talks too much and bugs hell out of his playing partners
Salman Rushdie - A difficult read

About the Author:

Niall Edworthy is one of the UK's most prolific authors and successful ghostwriters. A former reporter for broadsheet newspapers and the international wire agencies AFP and Reuters, Niall began writing books in 1997. He is the author or ghost of almost 50 titles, most for the big publishing houses, many of them ghosted for well-known names (actors, soldiers, musicians, sportsmen & television personalities), others for 'ordinary' people with extraordinary stories. He has written in a wide range of genres, mainly Biography, History and Natural History but also Humour, Sport and recently, in Fiction. His first novel, Otto Eckhart's Ordeal, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Best Published Novel Award 2021. He will soon be publishing his second novel. He lives in West Sussex, UK.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Badger's Golf Compendium: The Essential ...
Publisher: Badger Books
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Bexley, Mudd
Condition: Like New