How to Quit Golf: A 12-Step Program FROM THE PUBLISHER
All golfers know they don't need to play golf. The problem is they don't know how to quit. Golf has a beginning, a middle, but no end. The game has no exit strategy. Every time you even think of quitting, golf entices you back with a 250-yard drive down the middle, an unfathomable recovery shot to the green, or a birdie on the hardest hole, as if to say, "You're almost there, just a little more work and you'll get it. Any day now you'll have the game figured out, and when you do you'll be the envy of all."
But it's not going to happen. You know it. Your partner knows it. Everyone knows it because no one gets any better at this game (except that guy you're playing against this Sunday).
How to Quit Golf offers the guidance, counseling, and tough love that is necessary to rid your life of the most addictive, demanding, and maddening game known to man. If you haven't been able to break the cycle of golf addiction, this is your bible. And if quitting isn't an option, Craig Brass's "12-Step Program" makes clear that laughing is.
Author Biography: Craig Brass lives in Plymouth, Michigan, with his wife, Beverly and daughter, Cameron. By day he is a financial consultant to corporate retirement plans. By night he's a golf writer, which is difficult because it's hard to golf and write in the dark. He has an undergraduate degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University, and a master of art in advertising from Michigan State University.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
"Golf is... a nasty, vicious game, played mainly by educated people who, quite frankly, should know better." In this hilarious send-up of 12-step programs and golf-buffs alike, Brass challenges golfers to ask themselves 15 questions to determine if they are "problem golfers." For example: "Do you count going to the driving range with your [spouse] as a night on the town?" or "Do you envy people who can golf without getting into trouble?" Approximately six million golfers play more than 21 rounds of golf a year; they are benignly labeled "avid" golfers. Brass contends that if those same people shot up heroine 21 times a year, they would not be considered "avid" drug users; they would be called junkies. With that analogy in mind, he calls on all amateur golfers to admit they have a problem and seek the help they need before it's too late. Chapter titles mimic AA steps: "Admit you are powerless over golf that your life has become unmanageable" and "Come to believe that a Power greater than yourself could restore you to sanity." Of course, in this case, that power would be named Jack Nicklaus. This is a quick airplane read, a perfect stocking-stuffer and a great gag gift from any and all golf widows or widowers. A foreward by actor and fellow problem golfer Jeff Daniels recommends reading the book to quit golf instead of having a frontal lobotomy: "It's cheaper and won't leave a scar." (Nov.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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