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Summary: Looked foward to reading this because i was member of Ponky
Review: Very disappointed with this book. I was looking foward to reading this because i was actually a member of the real Ponky (Ponkapoag GC in Canton,MA) back in 1988 when Rick came to the course to do his article for Sports Illustrated. The book has jokes that are very childish and he gay bashes in one scene of the book to get a laugh. Please! Very disappointing....feel I could have done better. The real story was better than this made up trash....maybe i'll write a book some day.
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Summary: Farce of a Tale About Two Side by Side Courses
Review: Gary McCord said it well: "full of characters from the other end of the food chain." Here we meet a golfing foursome who love the game and play at a Muny which in more ways than not sounds like a blown-up putt-putt course than a normal golf links.There's a tunnel that plays into significance on two holes, one through and the other over, with a sewage treatment plant, etc. to create unbelievable ambiance for the linksters. Betting and competing as they do with intense love for the game and the competition, they discover just over the barrier, the world of golf at Mayflower Club. Similar to playing at the Nordic Hills Resort in suburbian Chicago within eyesight of famed Marion but never to get in. We tried, guard wouldn't even let us enter to turnaround. Funny, but not one of my favorites.
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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: After reading Rick Reilly's Missing Links for the third time I wanted to add my comments and recommendation. If you have ever played golf and had a real gambler in your foursome then this book is for you. Reading this book on an airplane is difficult because people stare as you laugh out loud at the zanny adventures or the development of the characters. I have given this book as a present probably 20 times and have always gotten rave reviews from the recipient. So take my word, that if you enjoy golf and have a sense of humor you will love (and I mean love) this book.
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Summary: Missing Links is the best!!
Review: I paly the game of golf. There are many books about golf. I have read a lot of them, but not one like this. It has it alll, to the hacking gambler's, to the snooty country club members. The desciption of the courses makes you feel like you are right there in person. I can think of another non-stop, laughing story and that is Caddyshack. If you like this book then try The Glory Game at Goat Hill. I could not put this book down. I had too keep reading too see what crazy thing they did next.
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Summary: I can't say enough
Review: Bob Costas is right, you can't put this down. Thank goodness my flight was delayed, because I read straight through (7 hours). Great story, great golf, great friends.
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Summary: You know the feeling...smack one so perfect, you don't even
Review: Reilly's blue-collar novel about a group of gambling-crazypublic-links hackers is the perfect read. You'll laugh so hard, youmight break a rib! This book is in it's 8th or 9th printing now.... I am reading Slowmo right now, and Reilly's takes are outrageously funny. Either as a gift or for yourself, Rick Reilly entertains.
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Summary: "Pee-in-your-pants" funny...........
Review: Reilly's columns in SI are good, but it would be difficult to imagine just from reading them (even regularly) that he had this laugh-out-loud novel in him. This is a golf junkie's dream book, but few readers could love the game more than Reilly.....or write better about it. Everything about the game comes through in the book: reverence for tradition, elation, frustration, aesthetics. Even someone like me, who often wonders what is so mesmerizing about golf (and both my sons have their PGA cards!)can appreciate the devotion---filtered through outrageous humor --- that Reilly manifests in every page, even the sex scenes. It's enough to make you take up golf to see whether the euphoria, rare and fleeting as it is portrayed to be, can be as good for you as it apparently is for him and his characters. It would be a quick read, if it weren't for the great lines that have you lingering to try to commit them to memory. Even if you could, they could hardly be delivered with the spontaneity of the Ponky habitues. Enjoy it; I really did!
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Summary: Betting in golf how it might work
Review: This book was great, it shows what a little friendly betting can turn into. It helps pass the time with fun but in the end only your true friends stick with you. It is all fun when you win little bets but everything will even out in the end. This book shows that in a fair way. While I was reading this book, it almost seemed like my friends of the past. Even though this was a story it hit close to home for me. This book like every book has a few stale chapters but it had more good chapters than bad chapters. The second half of the book went really fast, I couldn't put it down. It ended sadly, how Raymond Hart dated one of his friends daughters from Ponky. He friend went to the hospital to die from cancer and she left Ray a note explaining things. All in all, I am not much of a reader and I couldn't put the book down.
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Summary: Spend some jing on this
Review: If you like golf or just a good funny read, this is the one for you. You'll soon find yourself lost in the fictional world of Stick and Two Down and the other chops. Also, if you are just a fan of Rick Reilly, imagine 275 pages of his wit instead of having to settle for his usual one page column. This book will have you rereading it again and again.
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Summary: Missing Links
Review: I've been around golf most of my life. This is by far the most humorous book I have ever read regarding golf. If it were a movie, and it should be,it would rank up with Caddyshack.
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