num_pages: 312
description: "Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that." -NewsweekTHE BOGEY MAN remains arguably the funniest book on golf ever written.George Plimpton here joins the pro golf circuit for a month of self-imposed torture in the name of bringing professional sport to the sphere of the average man. Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Wlater Hagan, and others populate this intriguing, classic, candid view from the first tee.
language: English
title: The Bogey Man
titlecomplete: The Bogey Man
genres: Humor, Biography, Sports, Journalism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 323
publisher: UNKNO