Divots

Book excerpt: "Safe in the locker room on the nineteenth Green the Oldest Member plays the game as he has seen it and tells the stories of the stormed-tossed lives of other and younger members of the club whom he has watched while they dug grim divots out of the shrinking turf. He has laid bare the comedy of bunkers and traps--the voiceless tragedy of water hazards and thickets and out of bounds, as well as slices in the rough. From his sheltered position in the clubhouse at Squashy Valley he expounds the primary rules of professional instructors and Greens' Committees: Keep your eye on the Ball! Replace the divots! and, above all, gives splendid examples of what constitutes perfect golfing courtesy."--Dust jacket.