Blue Fairways: Three Months, Sixty Courses, No Mulligans

by Charles Slack

In 1996, Charles Slack, a golfing everyman, threw his clubs in the trunk of his car and started on a pilgrimage down Route 1, playing the public courses all along the East Coast of the United States. As he tells the story of this extraordinary journey, he introduces a new set of partners with each round and opens a window into a new locale. Traveling from the potato fields of northern Maine to the manicured suburbs of Connecticut, from the worn-down urban centers of the Northeast corridor to the sun-drenched havens of the South, Slack chronicles the best and the worst of the public golf experience. Here in the land of new beginnings, he lives out every golfer's a fresh start and a pristine fairway each and every morning. It is a charming tale of a quintessentially American journey of discovery.

Genres: Sports, Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 1999

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is most assuredly a golfers book. If you don't play golf, don't bother. If you do, Slack has done what most of us have just dreamed about doing since we were first bitten by the golf bug. Warning, Slack is NOT a writer but he IS funny and his story is a wonderful little golfing travelogue.

[Richard Koppy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a good book... very repetitive and boring even though it was about my favorite hobby -- golf... I would not read this author again.

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed Charles Slack's account of what to many of us is the dream road trip. From the northern tip of Maine to the southern-most Florida keys Mr. Slack travels Route 1 and the golf courses it meanders past. I especially enjoyed this tail because I read it while recovering from surgery and couldn't swing a club for three weeks. Blue Fairways provided me the "golf fix" I needed and will do the same for you.

[Terry · Rating 3 out of 5]

This golfer's variation on William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways describes a trip from Maine to Key West on Route 1. The author stops at golf courses along the way and shares his impressions of the courses and golfers encounters. He also unflinchingly chronicles the ups and downs of his own game.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every golfers' dream