How to Line Up Your Fourth Putt

by Bobby Rusher

In this side-splitting send-up of instructional manuals, Bobby Rusher, a devious, tricky lout on the green, shares his singular strategies and priceless tips that he guarantees you’ll never learn from a golf pro,


How to hit a ball on the first try

How to play your second shot from the Ladies’ Tee without explaining yourself in a falsetto

How to estimate the distance the ball would have traveled had it not been unjustly interrupted on its way to where it was supposedly going

How to evoke the law of gravity to modify your score

How to increase your opponent’s score when you are unable to decrease your own

How to handle your opponent’s caddie’s hysterical laughter

How to manufacture a good lie in a bad situation

How to avoid the water when you lie eight in the bunker


From its clever illustrations of duffers at play to its dead-on parody of traditional guides to better golfing, How to Line Up Your Fourth Putt proves once and for all that being bad at golf really is a laughing matter.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1997