Charles S. Hellman

Charles “Chuck” Hellman is the author of BOGIE, a historic golf novel taking place in St. Andrews, Scotland during the 18th century. He is a low handicap golfer himself and has played the game for over 60 years world-wide—three trips to Scotland and Ireland. He has written over fifty books—a series of sport children books and a collection of sport cartoon books.

Chuck is a native Hoosier—born in Gary, Indiana. Chuck graduated from Purdue University (Class 1964) with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He excelled in golf in college and became the captain of Purdue’s award-winning golf team He has spent most of his adult life in the Los Angeles area as an electrical engineer for a large engineering company. He is retired and lives in the Palm Springs area. He weaves a marvelous tapestry of fact and fiction in BOGIE that offers you controversial, but credible answers to golf’s mysteries. Bogie was so meticulously researched, had you not known it was fiction, you would embrace it to be fact. Lots of water has flown under the Swilcan Bridge from his college days to now.