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Life is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop..... Then, one disaster of a day, Stick's world does a ten-car pile-up..... Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems. He'll qualify for the British Open.
"Crude and goofy but ultimately sweet." - Kirkus.
"No one (except perhaps Dan Jenkins in his prime) does the comic golf novel better than Reilly, and if he loads a few too many subplots into this one, who's counting?" - Booklist.
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Rick Reilly has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year eleven times. Formerly a writer for Sports Illustrated and ESPN.com, he continues to deliver his opinion essays and features on ESPN's SportsCenter. He is also the author of eleven books, several of which have been New York Times bestsellers. His Sports From Hell, My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition was a finalist for the Thurber Prize. Reilly lives in Denver, Colorado.
Reilly speaks passable Italian and dabbles in piano, paddle boarding, memory games, back-alley basketball, magic, skiing and snowboarding. He lives in Hermosa Beach, CA and Florence, Italy, with his wife — The Lovely Cynthia — and a putter he's not currently speaking to.
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