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Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth
Herman "Hank" Fins-Winston was a pro golfer destined for greatness. Now he lives in a condominium on the thirteenth fairway of one of heaven's glorious courses – a fact he finds surprising and amusing, since for one reason or another, a fair percentage of golfers never make it to paradise. Hank is having the time of his afterlife until he's summoned one idyllic morning to play a round with the Almighty. It seems that God is having some trouble with His game. As they play the heavenly courses, both in paradise and back on earth, Hank comes to realize that what began as a golf lesson has become a spiritual journey.
286 pages, Paperback
First published October 28, 2005
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Roland Merullo
39 books684 followersROLAND MERULLO is an awarding-winning author of 24 books including 17 works of fiction: Breakfast with Buddha, a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, now in its 20th printing; The Talk-Funny Girl, a 2012 ALEX Award Winner and named a "Must Read" by the Massachusetts Library Association and the Massachusetts Center for the Book; Vatican Waltz named one of the Best Books of 2013 by Publishers Weekly; Lunch with Buddha selected as one of the Best Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews; Revere Beach Boulevard named one of the "Top 100 Essential Books of New England" by the Boston Globe; A Little Love Story chosen as one of "Ten Wonderful Romance Novels" by Good Housekeeping, Revere Beach Elegy winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction, and Once Night Falls, selected as a "First Read" by Amazon Editors.
A former writer in residence at North Shore Community College and Miami Dade Colleges, and professor of Creative Writing at Bennington, Amherst and Lesley Colleges, Merullo has been a guest speaker at many literary events and venues and a faculty member at MFA programs and several writers’ conferences. His essays have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Outside Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Magazine, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Merullo's books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, German, Chinese, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, and Czech.
A former writer in residence at North Shore Community College and Miami Dade Colleges, and professor of Creative Writing at Bennington, Amherst and Lesley Colleges, Merullo has been a guest speaker at many literary events and venues and a faculty member at MFA programs and several writers’ conferences. His essays have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Outside Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Magazine, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Merullo's books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, German, Chinese, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, and Czech.
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December 30, 2022Interesting concept.
A read of re-examining your life through golfing with G-D ends up being a test.
There were a few poignant conversations and recall in the book that reminded me of me, which is the point. Religion plays no role in this book but some pretty famous people do.
I don't play golf or understand a lot of the verbiage spoken about the game - but that doesnt mean the book is lost on deaf ears. I can say I won't be taking up golf anytime soon. Too much of a mental workout. So when a player throws his club in the water, is he penalized- or just his character?
A read of re-examining your life through golfing with G-D ends up being a test.
There were a few poignant conversations and recall in the book that reminded me of me, which is the point. Religion plays no role in this book but some pretty famous people do.
I don't play golf or understand a lot of the verbiage spoken about the game - but that doesnt mean the book is lost on deaf ears. I can say I won't be taking up golf anytime soon. Too much of a mental workout. So when a player throws his club in the water, is he penalized- or just his character?
May 7, 2016
It warms my heart to read about golf, and listen to golf stories... My husband, Jeff had a very sudden and unexpected heart attack almost 3 years ago, and passed away. Golf was his game, and I miss him tremendously but also miss hearing his stories about how he played, what his golf buddies were up to and so on...
Anyway I started reading this book because I was enthralled by the title and wondered if it would give me insight into why Jeff loved the game so much. I enjoyed the story very much! I believe the book would be enjoyed by golfers and non-golfers, as it is a story about life, and the importance of living each day to its fullest!
Anyway I started reading this book because I was enthralled by the title and wondered if it would give me insight into why Jeff loved the game so much. I enjoyed the story very much! I believe the book would be enjoyed by golfers and non-golfers, as it is a story about life, and the importance of living each day to its fullest!
February 27, 2011
I probably would have rated this book higher if I hadn't just read Breakfast with Buddha. In fact, I read this because Breakfast with Buddha was so good I was intrigued by the title "Golfing with God". The story is good, but it took a little while before I was totally absorbed and it just doesn't have the humor that Breakfast with Buddha does.
If you are a golfer, this book may be a more compelling read as it uses a golfing metaphor to help explain why we should be more present and in the moment. And to illustrate how we are prone to undermining our true potential. I found it's message to be uplifting and inspiring and a great reminder to stay in the moment.
If you are a golfer, this book may be a more compelling read as it uses a golfing metaphor to help explain why we should be more present and in the moment. And to illustrate how we are prone to undermining our true potential. I found it's message to be uplifting and inspiring and a great reminder to stay in the moment.
April 26, 2022
Read this before your 22nd birthday if you are confused about your purpose in life…
March 31, 2022
I checked out Roland Merrulo’s GOLFING WITH GOD from the library for much the same reason I had checked out Mitch Albom’s THE STRANGER IN THE LIFE BOAT—in fact, it seemed to me that both books shared the exact same premise, albeit one took place on a life raft adrift at sea and the other on a well-manicured golf course. But my understanding of both was that a human interacts with God and gets to ask “the big questions”, allowing God to do the normal apologetics thing and give shitty excuses for His inaction. Actually, the back of this book has quotes suggesting it’s perfect for fans of Albom.
I expected both to be hilarious. Albom’s book turned out to be less a laff riot than just a thoroughly mediocre LIFE OF PI retread. GOLFING WITH GOD, though… hoo boy did it exceed my expectations.
I don’t know if I would have had quite the same reaction if I hadn’t gone into the book thinking it was your standard evangelical apologetics fare. As it is, I was excited immediately by the first sentence: “There are 8,187 golf courses in Heaven.” We are then presented to a picture of Heaven, and of God, which is at least unconventional but I would imagine somewhat blasphemous for many who came to the book expecting the same thing I was. Our protagonist, Herman “Hank” Fins-Winston, lives in a condominium at the edge of one of Heaven’s golf courses. He plays rounds of golf with Budda, Moses, Mary, and Jesus (who is no more God than any of us is), and sometimes Muhammad joins. God is an avid golfer and switches sex and pronouns by the day (for most of the book, God presents as female). Reincarnation is central to the book’s weird theology; Hank has been reincarnated as a bug billions of times, animals millions of times, and humans thousands of times. Also, there are multiple universes, and Earth is quite frankly one of God’s least favorite planets. On the subject of the other universes, one of God’s lieutenant angels bemoans the fact that people think they have to wait on God instead of seeking *Her* out: “On some planets,” he says, “they’re on the Ninetieth goddamned Coming and still haven’t figured it out.” In short, this is definitely *not* the Christian apologetics I expected. It treats God and religion as more like a science fiction concept that Merullo is free to riff on as he sees fit, like the varying rules different writers create for vampires. That playfulness is a lot of fun.
When I was skimming reviews before reading the book, one theme came through above all else: this is a book about GOLF. That is almost an understatement. The book is drenched in golf and takes the game very seriously. It’s awash in discussion of specific clubs used, yardage, pars, dog-legs, greens and fairways and hazards, slices and hooks, bogeys and eagles and snowmen. The overall plot of the book is that God has asked Hank to help Her overcome “the yips”; it seems God’s short game is on the fritz! But of course over the course of the book Hank learns how golf is a lot like life, you know? Your troubles—like hazards—lead you eventually to grace, like a golfer getting better with practice. (By the way, God’s home course is Eden, and the first hole is a 666-yard par four called “Serpent’s Advance”.) It is insane how golf-heavy the book is, though. The only thing I have to compare it against is Ian Fleming’s GOLDFINGER which includes one extended golf scene. Perhaps my annoyance with that MAGA shithead James Bond affected my reading of the scene, but I found it utterly uninteresting. Strangely, despite the overload of golf here I was never turned off by it; to the contrary, I found its weird single-mindedness kind of charming.
There are some elements of the “answers to the big questions” plot I had expected, though again the answers tend to rely on a kind of loose conception of God. At one point God even says She essentially wrote the rules and then let the universe go as it will, suggesting a kind of deism. In the theology of this book, as long as you try to be good and avoid hurting people as much as possible then you can get into Heaven. In fact, most everybody gets to Heaven eventually, after reaching a state close to nirvana following countless reincarnations but they typically return to earth after a while to start again because Heaven gets stale after a while. They might even try life out in another planetary system for a change! Evil exists because “people are afraid” and turn their fear against anything different. Karmic justice always occurs, but not necessarily on human time—it may be years later or even a different lifetime altogether. Hell is a concept invented by humans because we experience something roughly equivalent on earth, but little do we know pain is an illusion. It’s like a dream, it’s not real! This is all, like, vaguely inspirational but silly and I think ultimately comes back to the spiritual-not-religious idea of “just try to do good, that’s good enough”. It’s a nice thought, I suppose.
Here is where I get into some real SPOILER territory, but I’m dying to talk about it. Hank eventually recommends that to really crack God’s golf problems, they need to play on Earth. So the two of them go to Earth, with Hank appearing as a version of himself and God appearing as his beautiful, younger wife “Alicia”. This leads to Hank having impure thoughts, such as when Alicia goes to take a bath and he imagines Her naked body in the tub. While on Earth, Hank has to play a high-stakes golf game against Bunny Rogan (who, it is obvious, is really the devil) for the fate of the soul of Larry Five Iron, a sleazy schmoozer who calls everyone “baby” and who is likely Hank’s reincarnated father. Oh, and also parents are usually just your friends or enemies from a past life working off a spiritual debt. Anyway, Hank manages to pull off a win against Bunny/Satan and afterward does the thing he’s been angling for the whole time they’ve been on Earth: he tells God he wants to have sex with her. “I want to make love with you, Lord.” God/Alicia kind of leads him on, doing that normal God thing of speaking in ambiguous riddles. She seems to suggest if Hank can make par on a particularly beautiful course (“Old White”), then She will have sex with him. Actually she uses phrases like “You will have a union with God” which makes it pretty clear this isn’t going in the bedroom direction to us readers but Hank holds out hope. Of course, after he beats the course and runs up to their shared hotel room with the score sheet in one hand and a condom in the other (I’m kidding about the condom), he has a heart attack and finds himself back in Heaven… only this time, he sees God for the incorporeal entity He/She truly is and Hank himself also disincorporates until his particles are swirling in sync with God’s. That’s a fairly satisfying ending, I suppose, although then Hank is told he has to live *just one more* life on earth and is given a name that he objects to and so God tells him he can have a nickname, then he returns and becomes a star on the PGA circuit. I don’t really understand this part; I assume it’s an inside joke for people more familiar with professional golfers than I am? Maybe it hints toward who Hank became once reincarnated? I don’t know; it feels like it steps on the more satisfying ending in Heaven. Also, though, there was a big to-do about Hank getting to design his own Heavenly golf course if he helped God and yet that never came to fruition either. A bit disappointing, that.
All of this long-winded review is to say that I thought this was going to be a stupid funny book but I was pleasantly surprised to find that I liked it genuinely. It’s good-hearted and weird as hell. That caught me by surprise and I had a lot of fun reading it as a result. I’m glad I stumbled upon this book at the library
and gave it a chance.
I expected both to be hilarious. Albom’s book turned out to be less a laff riot than just a thoroughly mediocre LIFE OF PI retread. GOLFING WITH GOD, though… hoo boy did it exceed my expectations.
I don’t know if I would have had quite the same reaction if I hadn’t gone into the book thinking it was your standard evangelical apologetics fare. As it is, I was excited immediately by the first sentence: “There are 8,187 golf courses in Heaven.” We are then presented to a picture of Heaven, and of God, which is at least unconventional but I would imagine somewhat blasphemous for many who came to the book expecting the same thing I was. Our protagonist, Herman “Hank” Fins-Winston, lives in a condominium at the edge of one of Heaven’s golf courses. He plays rounds of golf with Budda, Moses, Mary, and Jesus (who is no more God than any of us is), and sometimes Muhammad joins. God is an avid golfer and switches sex and pronouns by the day (for most of the book, God presents as female). Reincarnation is central to the book’s weird theology; Hank has been reincarnated as a bug billions of times, animals millions of times, and humans thousands of times. Also, there are multiple universes, and Earth is quite frankly one of God’s least favorite planets. On the subject of the other universes, one of God’s lieutenant angels bemoans the fact that people think they have to wait on God instead of seeking *Her* out: “On some planets,” he says, “they’re on the Ninetieth goddamned Coming and still haven’t figured it out.” In short, this is definitely *not* the Christian apologetics I expected. It treats God and religion as more like a science fiction concept that Merullo is free to riff on as he sees fit, like the varying rules different writers create for vampires. That playfulness is a lot of fun.
When I was skimming reviews before reading the book, one theme came through above all else: this is a book about GOLF. That is almost an understatement. The book is drenched in golf and takes the game very seriously. It’s awash in discussion of specific clubs used, yardage, pars, dog-legs, greens and fairways and hazards, slices and hooks, bogeys and eagles and snowmen. The overall plot of the book is that God has asked Hank to help Her overcome “the yips”; it seems God’s short game is on the fritz! But of course over the course of the book Hank learns how golf is a lot like life, you know? Your troubles—like hazards—lead you eventually to grace, like a golfer getting better with practice. (By the way, God’s home course is Eden, and the first hole is a 666-yard par four called “Serpent’s Advance”.) It is insane how golf-heavy the book is, though. The only thing I have to compare it against is Ian Fleming’s GOLDFINGER which includes one extended golf scene. Perhaps my annoyance with that MAGA shithead James Bond affected my reading of the scene, but I found it utterly uninteresting. Strangely, despite the overload of golf here I was never turned off by it; to the contrary, I found its weird single-mindedness kind of charming.
There are some elements of the “answers to the big questions” plot I had expected, though again the answers tend to rely on a kind of loose conception of God. At one point God even says She essentially wrote the rules and then let the universe go as it will, suggesting a kind of deism. In the theology of this book, as long as you try to be good and avoid hurting people as much as possible then you can get into Heaven. In fact, most everybody gets to Heaven eventually, after reaching a state close to nirvana following countless reincarnations but they typically return to earth after a while to start again because Heaven gets stale after a while. They might even try life out in another planetary system for a change! Evil exists because “people are afraid” and turn their fear against anything different. Karmic justice always occurs, but not necessarily on human time—it may be years later or even a different lifetime altogether. Hell is a concept invented by humans because we experience something roughly equivalent on earth, but little do we know pain is an illusion. It’s like a dream, it’s not real! This is all, like, vaguely inspirational but silly and I think ultimately comes back to the spiritual-not-religious idea of “just try to do good, that’s good enough”. It’s a nice thought, I suppose.
Here is where I get into some real SPOILER territory, but I’m dying to talk about it. Hank eventually recommends that to really crack God’s golf problems, they need to play on Earth. So the two of them go to Earth, with Hank appearing as a version of himself and God appearing as his beautiful, younger wife “Alicia”. This leads to Hank having impure thoughts, such as when Alicia goes to take a bath and he imagines Her naked body in the tub. While on Earth, Hank has to play a high-stakes golf game against Bunny Rogan (who, it is obvious, is really the devil) for the fate of the soul of Larry Five Iron, a sleazy schmoozer who calls everyone “baby” and who is likely Hank’s reincarnated father. Oh, and also parents are usually just your friends or enemies from a past life working off a spiritual debt. Anyway, Hank manages to pull off a win against Bunny/Satan and afterward does the thing he’s been angling for the whole time they’ve been on Earth: he tells God he wants to have sex with her. “I want to make love with you, Lord.” God/Alicia kind of leads him on, doing that normal God thing of speaking in ambiguous riddles. She seems to suggest if Hank can make par on a particularly beautiful course (“Old White”), then She will have sex with him. Actually she uses phrases like “You will have a union with God” which makes it pretty clear this isn’t going in the bedroom direction to us readers but Hank holds out hope. Of course, after he beats the course and runs up to their shared hotel room with the score sheet in one hand and a condom in the other (I’m kidding about the condom), he has a heart attack and finds himself back in Heaven… only this time, he sees God for the incorporeal entity He/She truly is and Hank himself also disincorporates until his particles are swirling in sync with God’s. That’s a fairly satisfying ending, I suppose, although then Hank is told he has to live *just one more* life on earth and is given a name that he objects to and so God tells him he can have a nickname, then he returns and becomes a star on the PGA circuit. I don’t really understand this part; I assume it’s an inside joke for people more familiar with professional golfers than I am? Maybe it hints toward who Hank became once reincarnated? I don’t know; it feels like it steps on the more satisfying ending in Heaven. Also, though, there was a big to-do about Hank getting to design his own Heavenly golf course if he helped God and yet that never came to fruition either. A bit disappointing, that.
All of this long-winded review is to say that I thought this was going to be a stupid funny book but I was pleasantly surprised to find that I liked it genuinely. It’s good-hearted and weird as hell. That caught me by surprise and I had a lot of fun reading it as a result. I’m glad I stumbled upon this book at the library
and gave it a chance.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 22, 2012
There is a lot of golf in this book which I don't really care about, but Merullo is a good writer and makes it fairly interesting. There is also a lot of spirituality in this book and it really appealed to my fuzzy--I believe in everything--version of God. Some may find certain notions in the book offensive. Free love is available in Heaven, if you want free love, but it is not Heavenly hooking up, it is the union of Souls. I found the ideas in this book to parallel many of my own, and the notion that my wife and I may continue rolling in the hay in the Elysian Fields for centuries to come is very appealing to me. Once or twice the book got a bit too golfy but for the most part, I really enjoyed this book.
I can't recommend this book to people with an interest in golf but not spirituality. I will highly recommend it to people interested in spirituality with no interest in golf.
I can't recommend this book to people with an interest in golf but not spirituality. I will highly recommend it to people interested in spirituality with no interest in golf.
April 28, 2010
Roland is funny, has a great wide sense of God and therefore is always inspiring as well as fun to read.
March 18, 2013
Liked the book even though i don't play golf. I would suppose a golfer would enjoy it even more.
December 5, 2021
When I woke up yesterday morning, I had no idea that by noon, I’d feel a dozen or more years younger. Would you believe, this miracle was sparked by words in Roland Merullo’s book, Golfing with God, a whimsical spiritual novel about a golfer who encounters God in heaven and is commissioned to teach God to improve his golf game. Or wait, that might be HER golf game. Turns out God is non-binary, but what’s surprising about that? I’m a little late to this game, reading Golfing fifteen years after its release, but you know what? I would not have appreciated it as much back then as I do now. And a non-binary God? Could Merullo have known fifteen years ago how hot a topic that would become?
The main reason for my delay, despite having savored the “Eating with Buddha” and related books when they were first released, was due to the word Golf in the title, leading me to assume it's a treatise on golf I’m not a golfer and never will be, so books about golf? Give me a break. I still don’t get golf, but I do get and appreciate Merullo's metaphor, and aside from this being a rollicking good story, golf and all, it’s a game-changer for my game and maybe yours.
One caveat: fundamentalists may find their hair catching on fire as they read descriptions of golf courses in heaven and a shape-shifting God. But anyone willing to question stories they tell themselves about life just may find their own story changing as much as mine has while they read. And even if they toss every thought about the radical aspects, any golfer should enjoy this new perspective on golf as a metaphor for life.
The main reason for my delay, despite having savored the “Eating with Buddha” and related books when they were first released, was due to the word Golf in the title, leading me to assume it's a treatise on golf I’m not a golfer and never will be, so books about golf? Give me a break. I still don’t get golf, but I do get and appreciate Merullo's metaphor, and aside from this being a rollicking good story, golf and all, it’s a game-changer for my game and maybe yours.
One caveat: fundamentalists may find their hair catching on fire as they read descriptions of golf courses in heaven and a shape-shifting God. But anyone willing to question stories they tell themselves about life just may find their own story changing as much as mine has while they read. And even if they toss every thought about the radical aspects, any golfer should enjoy this new perspective on golf as a metaphor for life.
July 25, 2020
This book spoke to me at a time in my life that I have been struggling with some troubling issues. As a golfer the spiritual messages resonated and brought me some sense of peace. Letting go of mistakes and paths not taken that have haunted me; this book helped bring things into perspective via Hank's journey in dealing with similar troubles. Prior to this book I read the authors "Breakfast with Buddha" and this book is far superior. The lessons and concepts are for all but will be more germaine to golfers. This is a book that I plan on giving to friends who golf and I highly encourage others to read.
July 13, 2023
Previously I have read the Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner with Buddha books by Roland Merullo. I enjoyed those book and also enjoyed the present one. This is an interesting, tongue in cheek romp through golf and religion. The main character is pro golfer who never quite lived up to his potential during his earthly existence. Subsequently he is able to spend some time on the course with God, Buddha and Jesus, among others. The book is an interesting spiritual journey about golf, religion and self- examination. I recommend this book to all. But, particularly to those of us that have spent some time on the links.
May 20, 2019
Roland Merullo is an entertaining writer no doubt about it, but this book just didn't captivate me the way his Buddha trilogy did. While Merullo makes golf a metaphor for the human spiritual journey, I think it's helpful to have some knowledge of the game and its lingo to fully enjoy this book (contrary to what some reviewers say). Since I cannot buy into a lot of the author's beliefs (e.g. reincarnation), I found his vision of heaven to be pelagian (individual salvation being largely a matter of self-mastery and will power) and devoid of grace.
February 21, 2023
Enjoyable read, this is a philosophy book as much as a novel, if you enjoyed 'Conversations with God' then you'll enjoy the approach here. (Haha, 'approach' is a pun if you look at it from a golfer's perspective...). This is very readable, sometimes I strained to maintain my 'suspension of disbelief' as the book occasionally veers into somewhat ridiculous territory simply as part of the story, but those occasions were few a far between, and I was able to relax and get back into the story as it went along. I would read another from Merullo!
March 9, 2018
Enjoyed quick read on flight to Tucson.
Clever format of moving between heaven and earth and seeing God in different incarnations. Did not need to be a golfer, but it did enhance the read when describing some of the fabled courses.
Most struck by the change in perspective that occurred during his journey when he could see beyond his prejudices and preconceptions.
Last 50 pages were the best. It was the closest to a spiritual description of golf and how it transcends every day life.
Clever format of moving between heaven and earth and seeing God in different incarnations. Did not need to be a golfer, but it did enhance the read when describing some of the fabled courses.
Most struck by the change in perspective that occurred during his journey when he could see beyond his prejudices and preconceptions.
Last 50 pages were the best. It was the closest to a spiritual description of golf and how it transcends every day life.
December 29, 2023
I really enjoyed Roland Merullo's writing style. It is smooth, entertaining and therefore enjoyable. This book is funny at times, thrilling at other times, and at times the reader gets some interesting philosophy/theology. The book is set in Heaven and on Earth. I must say I rather like Merullo's description of Heaven. I recommend this book, especially to golfers and golf fans, but the range of readers I believe would enjoy this book is much wider than that.
February 19, 2024
Was looking for a companion piece to Breakfast with Buddha and didn't find it here, but did find something that hit multiple interests of mine. As a huge golf fan, and someone searching for meaning, this book hit a sweet spot. It wasn't as revelatory as some of Merullo's other works, but I don't think it was intended to be. Some of the golf metaphors were a bit strained, but I appreciated the camp aspect of it.
March 15, 2024
I would call this 3.5 stars. It was a good story about Herman Fins Winston who is supposed to help God with his golf game. Herman meets many interesting people along the way at different courses. The whole time he was learning lessons along the way. I liked the idea and it made you think. I really hope there are things and places in Heaven like golf courses that we enjoy here on earth. The description was beautiful and hopeful.
August 4, 2019
I enjoyed this book. Had read the author's other book-Breakfast with Buddha and looked for another by same author. The story is about a former golf pro who arrives in heaven and then is asked to help God with his/her golf game. He goes back to earth, too, and has the opportunity to play some great courses with famous people. This is a great read but probably more enjoyable if you play golf.
February 26, 2020
I usually enjoy Merullo's books but this one I had a little trouble with. It is not as an enjoyable read as his other books and I didn't quite agree or get his take on heaven or reincarnation or the different versions of God. It is so blended together.
January 14, 2017
My go in position was that I thought this was a memoir. Not so. This is fiction. Fun fiction at that. Enjoyed both the writing and the story.
November 7, 2017
Fascinating concept, didn't quite pull it off and tie it all together.
February 25, 2018
A joyful journey
A delightful read no matter your thoughts on God or religion. Using golf as the metaphor created a wonderful way to see the world.
A delightful read no matter your thoughts on God or religion. Using golf as the metaphor created a wonderful way to see the world.
March 12, 2018
Creative story draws u along...bit of a flat ending
December 20, 2018
This was a good, quick read. Enjoyable as long as you don't get hung up on someone else's opinion of what heaven is like.
June 21, 2019
Golf-as-a-metaphor-for-life novel
December 20, 2019
A thought-provoking read in the same realm as a C.S. Lewis novel. The main character was very relatable in his responses to all the events happening to him.
March 14, 2020
Lighthearted reading with some serious truths mixed in with the fantasy. If you love golf, the main character should appeal to you. Having visited some of the resorts mentioned added more enjoyment.
April 2, 2020
Fun and read a long time ago.
July 16, 2020
I don’t play golf but I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
November 5, 2020
Only because I don't play golf and I read all the others first.
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