Golf Nuts: You've Got to Be Committed

by Ron Garland

These are the folks who practice chip shots in elevators with invisible wedges. These are the people on the golf course in parkas on the first day the temperature tops 30 degrees. These are the junkies who spend hundreds of hours searching pharmaceutical companies' websites for a cure for the ""yips"". These golfers are ""nuts"" and the anecdotal stories of Golf Nuts are proof. In pathological putting circles, author Ron Garland is known as the ""Head Nut"" of the Golf Nuts Society, an organization that he founded which now boasts a vast membership of ""nuts"", and these are his favorite accounts from a group of seemingly normal people with an abnormal obsession.

Genres: Sports

239 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Bud · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book about a serious addiction, describes many golf obsessed people doing golf-crazy things, and I see similarities to my life.
If you just play golf, this book might give you a few chuckles. If you are a golf nut, this book will give you ideas.
I will be shortly applying for membership at golfnut.com
Golf Nuts: You've Got to Be Committed

[Marissa Savala · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book at a thrift store because my father in law plays a lot of golf and I thought it would be an interesting gift for him. I chose to read the book before gifting it. This was supposed to be for his birthday in June, but I just finished it a week before Christmas. Although golf is still not of great interest to me, this book at many humorous, if not outright nutty, anecdotes and would probably be a great read for anyone who is nuts about golf.