One passage captured my attention. Junger was quoted.
Golf is so tame.
I think we can dismiss as sheer ignorance Junger's wonderment at the coexistence in a single heart of a love of golf and a love of the sea. The latter is a notoriously cruel mistress, but so, too, are Pine Valley and Pebble Beach. This is the deeper issue Junger raises. Of extreme hazards such as the seventy-foot seas that sent the crew of Junger's Andrea Gail to its death, golf, admittedly, presents few. One or two are killed by errant shots, or by walking into someone's follow-through.