Hailed by bestselling author Walker Percy as "brilliant and highly original," this funny, touching, and very moving novel by the author of The Soul of Golf chronicles one man's glorious victories and bitter defeats in the most challenging sport of all: life. The son of a devoutly golf-hating dad, Ted Kendall comes to embrace the sport as a way to soothe his grief after his mother's death. Then his knack with a club lands him a scholarship to Ohio State--and soon he's driving and putting his way through the electrifying and glamorous world of the PGA tour. The grass is greener and life is good until a love triangle on the links goes bad, and Ted trades his bag of irons for the iron bars of a jail in the deeper than Deep South. With two years to kill alongside a motley crew of fellow misfit inmates, Ted turns once more to the gospel of golf--and finds his own odd brand of salvation.

Rub of the Green

Hallberg, William

Romance

Ballantine Books

Hailed by bestselling author Walker Percy as "brilliant and highly original," this funny, touching, and very moving novel by the author of The Soul of Golf chronicles one man's glorious victories and bitter defeats in the most challenging sport of all: life. The son of a devoutly golf-hating dad, Ted Kendall comes to embrace the sport as a way to soothe his grief after his mother's death. Then his knack with a club lands him a scholarship to Ohio State--and soon he's driving and putting his way through the electrifying and glamorous world of the PGA tour. The grass is greener and life is good until a love triangle on the links goes bad, and Ted trades his bag of irons for the iron bars of a jail in the deeper than Deep South. With two years to kill alongside a motley crew of fellow misfit inmates, Ted turns once more to the gospel of golf--and finds his own odd brand of salvation. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Literature & Fiction

United States

DOUBLEDAY

In this unique anthology, Hallberg has collected 23 classic short stories by Wodehouse, Updike, Percy, Canin, and more--the ideal gift for literate golfers coast to coast.

Perfect Lies

One hot summer morning, William Hallberg sets off on an odyssey across the United States to penetrate--and illuminate--the soul of golf. No course is too grand, no driving range too humble for a stop on Hallberg's unpredictable tour of America's varying golf venues. He tackles Kiawah Island's diabolical and breathtaking Ocean Course with a party of well-heeled Southern gents. He tromps through sagebrush roughs in the Nevada outback. He encounters the ghost of a cherished golfing buddy during a memorable round in the Smokies. And between games he nurses his wounds, ponders his constantly mutating handicap, and commiserates with fellow golfers in dusky sports bars, greasy spoons, and rain-soaked motel parking lots. Witty and wise, The Soul of Golf will make you laugh out loud, swallow hard in the face of painful truths, and, ultimately, head yet again for your favorite golf course where fate lies in ambush.

The Soul of Golf

Sports & Outdoors

Golf

On a hot summer morning, William Hallberg, author of The Rub of the Green, sets off on an odyssey across the United States to penetrate--and illuminate--the soul of golf. No course is too grand, no driving range too humble for a stop on Hallberg's unpredictable tour of America's verdant and not-so-verdant golf venues. He tackles Kiawah Island's diabolical and breathtaking Ocean Course with a party of well-heeled Southern gents. He tromps through sagebrush roughs and kikuyu bunkers in the Nevada outback. He encounters the ghost of a cherished golfing buddy during a memorable round in the Smokies. And between games he nurses his wounds, ponders his constantly mutating handicap, and commiserates with fellow golfers in dusky sports bars, greasy spoons, and rain-soaked motel parking lots. No one writes about golf the way William Hallberg does. His zest, passion, and humor inform each page of this book, which, using golf as both its means and metaphor, explores what it is to be a man in America. The Soul of Golf will make you laugh out loud, swallow hard in the face of painful truths, and ultimately, head yet again for your favorite golf course where fate lies in ambush. Hallberg clearly had the time of his life working on this book. It's a privilege and a pleasure to come along for the ride.

Fawcett

Hailed by bestselling author Walker Percy as "brilliant and highly original," this funny, touching, and very moving novel by the author of The Soul of Golf chronicles one man's glorious victories and bitter defeats in the most challenging sport of all: life.The son of a devoutly golf-hating dad, Ted Kendall comes to embrace the sport as a way to soothe his grief after his mother's death. Then his knack with a club lands him a scholarship to Ohio State--and soon he's driving and putting his way through the electrifying and glamorous world of the PGA tour.The grass is greener and life is good until a love triangle on the links goes bad, and Ted trades his bag of irons for the iron bars of a jail in the deeper than Deep South. With two years to kill alongside a motley crew of fellow misfit inmates, Ted turns once more to the gospel of golf--and finds his own odd brand of salvation.

The Rub of the Green

BANTAM BOOKS

Gathers together the latest information on asthma, brought together by a practicing allergist, by a patient, and by the husband of the patient

Asthma Handbook, The

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Bantam]

Ted Kendall takes up golf to cope with his mother's death, and, after a sojourn at Ohio State and on the PGA Tour, he winds up at a prison on the Mississippi Delta, where he builds a two-hole golf course on a nearby swamp

Bantam Dell Pub Group

Contemporary

Fireside

Mike Ritz, host of the Golf Channel, Power, Passion, Honor Glory may be the most beautiful golf book every published. Twenty images form this book are currently touring the USA and Canada for years on behalf of the United States Golf Association. Sprayregens photographs, brilliantly captures the essence of Palmer, Nicklaus, Watson, Norman and Woods, states James Dodson.

Power, Passion, Honor and Glory: Five Heroes of Modern Golf

Sports Poetry in Motion

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Rub of the Green

Rub of the Green

Perfect Lies

The Soul of Golf

The Soul of Golf

The Rub of the Green

Asthma Handbook, The

The Rub of the Green

Perfect Lies

Power, Passion, Honor and Glory: Five Heroes of Modern Golf