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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Don't Read This Book..! Don't read this book... it'll leave you wanting more - and Tom just cannot write fast enough. If you play, watch or have ever thought about golf you should read this book. It offers an insight into the mind of the top golfer and just how good these guys need to be. More please - why not try to get onto the Asian Tour or otherwise!??? J
One of our finest young purveyors of witty prose I haven't played golf in years, but I write lots of golf speeches, which means I need to get some ideas and a feel for the game. I took a risk on Tom Cox, and I was handsomely rewarded. His prose is just sublime, like Guy Browning or Marcus Berkmann, he rolls out beautiful self-deprecatory sentences, one after the other, that keep you giggling for hours. Pity he couldn't play golf like that. What I really liked about it was the rather melancholy wisdom. To play at the highest level you need to be very... more info
Mr A. Allwright. Philistine. My advice - A MUST BUY. Mr Allwright seems to have missed the point in its entirety (see his (weak) amazon review). He is clearly a (golfing, humour, general) philistine. Managed to nick this literature from husband who was annoying me by laughing every page, per night, up until Chapter 3. So I swooped. It was mine. I laughed until it was completed, and like the best books, looked forward to getting to bed to savour the next unfolding. Cox depicts the soul destroying nature of life on (Europro.........if you say it... more info
MUST READ FOR ALL GOLF FANATICS A great, great read. A real pleasant change from autobiographies and coaching manuals. Tom's year as a professional is a real emotional rollercoaster and the caracters in Tom's book relate to people in golf clubs the length and bredth of the UK. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
