Somewhere in Ireland, A Village Is Missing An Idiot

From Publishers Weekly
As a broadcaster for CBS Sports, Feherty (A Nasty Bit of Rough) injects a most welcome dash of humor into his play-by-play of professional golf tournaments, a sport not well known for hilarious hijinks or colorful characters. This "best of" collection of columns from Golf Magazine, the British publication Golf Monthly and Golfonline.com by the expatriate Irishman is equally entertaining, but Feherty in large doses can wear a bit thin. With a schoolboy's delight in all things scatological, many columns honor the author's digestive tract or lack thereof; he also spends time with vomiting fans and African animal excrement. But Feherty's place in golf literature is assured by his sprightly refusal to accept an image of the game as dull and unexciting, with colorless players who all look and sound the same. Feherty is a black sheep golf character who enjoys a game different from the one projected by the media and earnest sportswriters who wax poetic about azaleas, sportsmanship and traditions. His golf is that of Everyman, where expletives, immaturity and the occasional ingestion of alcohol combine to make it a fun and infuriating game. Reading in their entirety the 300-plus pages of intense efforts to be funny will require some fortitude, but if you like your golf writing irreverent, dicey and honest, you will certainly enjoy this. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist
TV golf analyst Feherty follows his popular first novel, A Tasty Bit of Rough [BKL Mr 15 02], with a collection of his columns from Golf Magazine and Golfonline. Like Gary McCord, his colleague at CBS, Feherty can be very funny in a refreshingly irreverent way (a quality usually absent from golf), but also like McCord, his machine-gun assault of one-liners can grow stale quickly. Clearly, this collection should not be read straight through unless one possesses superhuman tolerance for fart jokes and outrageous similes. In short doses, however, Feherty rarely fails to entertain. His behind-the-scenes columns not only poke fun at his on-air colleagues but also provide a genuinely fascinating look at what golf broadcasting is like from the other side of the microphone. But, most of all, there are lots of great golf stories, like the time Doug Sanders missed a three-foot putt to lose the British Open and fabled announcer Henry Longhurst offered only a three-word commentary: "What a pity." Bill Ott
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Sports Illustrated
"A virtual literary whoopee cushion…A raunchy, randy, riotous farce"


Dan Jenkins
"A pure delight…Every golf nut will love this book."


Publishers Weekly
"The Naked Gun of golf literature."


Troon McAllister
"If you’re one of those people who think golf is a religion, prepare for some seriously funny blasphemy."


Book Description
Golf’s multitalented combination of Dave Barry, P.J. O’Rourke, and Rick Reilly, David Feherty is the nation’s funniest and most popular on-screen golf personality. His "Sidespin" column is the most popular feature in Golf Magazine, and his first novel, A Nasty Bit of Rough, cracked the New York Times bestseller list. Now, at long last, an omnibus of Feherty’s best nonfiction hilarity.

Somewhere in Ireland, A Village is Missing an Idiot is a collection of Feherty’s most popular Golf Magazine columns, intermingled with his most outrageous work from Golfonline.com. As an added bonus, readers will be treated to some notorious pieces from his work at the British publication Golf Monthly. Edited by and with a running commentary by Feherty, and accompanied by some of the priceless letters to the editor from readers across the country and around the globe complaining about Feherty’s perversity, Somewhere in Ireland is the perfect Father’s Day gift for the crankiest duffer in every family.



From the Publisher
The New York Times bestselling author of A Nasty Bit Of Rough returns with a singular assortment of ribald observations on golf, life, and how best to not take any of it seriously.


About the Author
Upon his retirement from professional golf in 1997, David Feherty has been a mainstay on CBS Sports as an on-course personality and commentator throughout the PGA golf season. In addition to penning the Golf Magazine column, Feherty writes a biweekly column for Golfonline, the most popular golf website. Feherty enjoyed a very successful professional career with ten victories on the European Tour, over $3 million won in prize money, and an appearance on the European Ryder Cup Team in 1991. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife Anita and their five children, Erin, Rory, Shey, Karl, and Fred.



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As a broadcaster for CBS Sports, Feherty (A Nasty Bit of Rough) injects a most welcome dash of humor into his play-by-play of professional golf tournaments, a sport not well known for hilarious hijinks or colorful characters. This "best of" collection of columns from Golf Magazine, the British publication Golf Monthly and Golfonline.com by the expatriate Irishman is equally entertaining, but Feherty in large doses can wear a bit thin. With a schoolboy's delight in all things scatological, many columns honor the author's digestive tract or lack thereof; he also spends time with vomiting fans and African animal excrement. But Feherty's place in golf literature is assured by his sprightly refusal to accept an image of the game as dull and unexciting, with colorless players who all look and sound the same. Feherty is a black sheep golf character who enjoys a game different from the one projected by the media and earnest sportswriters who wax poetic about azaleas, sportsmanship and traditions. His golf is that of Everyman, where expletives, immaturity and the occasional ingestion of alcohol combine to make it a fun and infuriating game. Reading in their entirety the 300-plus pages of intense efforts to be funny will require some fortitude, but if you like your golf writing irreverent, dicey and honest, you will certainly enjoy this. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.


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