Description: The golf club may be most commonly regarded as a place where men and women play that royal and ancient game, but truth be told, it also serves as a sort of Petri dish for some of the most outrageous, hysterical, and inane behavior found in modern society. You have hackers and stiffs. Flakes and dilettantes. Corporate big wigs and trust fund babies. They all exist in a kind of upper crust Animal House, where the denizens wear Burberry blazers instead of togas, and guzzle gin-and-tonics rather than beers. But the laughs, and the head shaking, are very much the same.
Review Quotes: John Steinbreder knows that the truly important action in golf takes place not on tour but at home, in the clubs where you and I happily waste our weekends. His book is about the game's most pressing issues: the drinks in the grill room, the logos on the shirts, and the cell phones in the clubhouse. He's an ideal guide to golf as we know it - a good walk improved.--David Owen, Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of My Usual Game: Adventures in Golf and The Making of the Masters