An A-to-Z handbook of the funniest slang, the most curious phrases and bizarre old words as used daily by professionals and social golfers around the world, essential reading for all players and followers of sport’s most infuriating game, packed with wicked and weird jargon from the world’s fairways and clubhouses.
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.
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.
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 is essential reading for 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. See Corbyn, Jeremy
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
Über den Autor
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 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.
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