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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Golf
The authors of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook take to the links! Dave and Josh join golf fanatic James Grace, drawing on their own tragic exploits and the experience of experts to help golfers survive dozens of dire situations. Learn how to finish a round with a broken arm, deal with a cigar brush fire, cure golf addiction, or remove a tick. Discover the best way to play out of a water hazard, make it through a lightning storm, or survive being hit in the privates. Hands-on, illustrated, step-by-step instructions guide you through these and other perils lurking on the fairway. With an appendix of rules for bizarre mis-haps, strategies for surmounting dress-code and equipment crises, and other essential survival tips, this handy guide won't help you save par-but it could save your bacon! Don't tee off without it.
178 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Joshua Piven
88 books24 followersJosh Piven is a television writer and producer, speechwriter, playwright, and the author or co-author of more than twenty non-fiction and humor books, including the worldwide best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.
He wrote the teleplay and serves as producer of Don The Beekeeper, a half-hour children’s TV show about honeybees and urban beekeeping. His most recent stage play, a holiday farce called No Reservations, had its world premiere in November-December, 2013, to great success and critical acclaim. More information. His next play is Muddled.
Josh likes to refer to himself in the third person.
Piven is perhaps best known for his famously tongue-in-cheek worst-case books, books that offer readers real-world (though often hilarious) advice on surviving worst-case situations that they might—but hopefully won’t—encounter: everything from “how to fend off a shark” and “how to wrestle an alligator” to “how to avoid the Freshman 15” and “how to determine if your date is an axe murderer.”
Piven is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania—and living proof that English majors aren't necessarily failures.
He wrote the teleplay and serves as producer of Don The Beekeeper, a half-hour children’s TV show about honeybees and urban beekeeping. His most recent stage play, a holiday farce called No Reservations, had its world premiere in November-December, 2013, to great success and critical acclaim. More information. His next play is Muddled.
Josh likes to refer to himself in the third person.
Piven is perhaps best known for his famously tongue-in-cheek worst-case books, books that offer readers real-world (though often hilarious) advice on surviving worst-case situations that they might—but hopefully won’t—encounter: everything from “how to fend off a shark” and “how to wrestle an alligator” to “how to avoid the Freshman 15” and “how to determine if your date is an axe murderer.”
Piven is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania—and living proof that English majors aren't necessarily failures.
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February 4, 2019
I got the book about 16 years ago as a gift. It' taken me the same amount to actually read it. Now I that I have I realize that I didnt miss anything. Im not sure if it was supposed to be fun or serious.
April 23, 2020
Despite golf courses being closed, I still liked reading the worst case scenarios for golfing.
February 17, 2021
Expected this to be a book of worst-case stories. Turned out its just taking worst-case scenarios and how to navigate them per the USGA rules. Great and all but not what I was expecting.
August 15, 2023
Poor novelty book. Can't decide if its serious or jokey. Not well written. The odd laughable moment but overall as a golfer didn't enjoy it at all.
February 20, 2014
This book is not going to help improve my golf game because I don’t have a golf game. I don’t play golf. I’ve never played golf. I never hope to play golf. However, I have read almost all of the other Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbooks, so I jumped at the chance to read this one too.
In true Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook, style, this book is both funny and informative. Funny: advice on how to “How to Thwart a Cheat.” Informative: “How to Play Out of a Water Trap.” Funny and Informative: “How to Survive Being Hit in the Goolies.” (Yes, “goolies” are just what you think they are.) Also funny: “How to Disarm an Irate Golfer,” “How to Control Your Golf Rage,” and “How to Cure a Golf Addiction.” The line-drawing illustrations are wonderfully humorous too.
I’ll probably give this book away immediately, but it was worth the hour or so I spent reading it.
In true Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook, style, this book is both funny and informative. Funny: advice on how to “How to Thwart a Cheat.” Informative: “How to Play Out of a Water Trap.” Funny and Informative: “How to Survive Being Hit in the Goolies.” (Yes, “goolies” are just what you think they are.) Also funny: “How to Disarm an Irate Golfer,” “How to Control Your Golf Rage,” and “How to Cure a Golf Addiction.” The line-drawing illustrations are wonderfully humorous too.
I’ll probably give this book away immediately, but it was worth the hour or so I spent reading it.
February 3, 2013
Worthless book
October 11, 2015
Thank goodness, I borrowed this instead of buying it. If the writers were trying to be humorous, they failed. If they were trying to impart valuable information, they failed miserably.
August 18, 2009
I hate golf :-). Still funny though.
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