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Missing Links
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by Rick Reilly
Sales Rank: 38685
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 278 pages
Published by: Broadway Books May 19, 1997
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0385488866
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0385488860
Book Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 9.4 ounces
Product Review
From Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly comes this spoof of all things golf and country club. Missing Links recounts the tale of a coterie of golfing friends who ply their hobby at Ponkoquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli. An 18-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a concrete river surrounded by a chain-link fence and the pillars of the elevated train that runs through the course, it is reputed to be the worst golf course in America. One day the group inadvertently discovers that all along they've been playing right next door to the Mayflower Club, a true golfing Eden. The rollicking plot includes a bet to see who will be first to sneak in a round at the Mayflower, as well as the narrator's attempts to reach some sort of reasonable understanding with his overbearing father.
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From Publishers Weekly
Some time ago, Reilly, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, contributed a humorous article about the Ponkapoag Golf Club, aka Ponky, a blue-collar golf course in Canton, Mass. The author's first novel returns to Ponky?changed here to the Ponkaquogue Municipal Course and Deli in Boston's working-class neighborhood of Dorchester?for a rollicking tale about a grungy group of "Ponkys" who aspire to play at the Mayflower, a nearby elite, invitation-only course. Narrator and Ponky leader Raymond Lee Hart initiates a group bet to see which member of his regular foursome can become the first Ponky to play at the snooty club. The Ponkys' schemes include a night raid on the Mayflower, a forgery scam and a pair of romances that offer potential access to a Mayflower foursome. Reilly resolves the bet halfway through the novel but saves his funniest moments for a final play in which Hart and another Ponky square off against Hart's stuffy, domineering father and a second Mayflower member. The humor occasionally flags, particularly when the author takes the father/son conflict a bit too seriously, and a working knowledge of golf is required to appreciate much of the funny stuff. But from scratch players to duffers, all who spend their leisure time chasing the little white ball will relish this wry tribute to the game.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Missing Links (Hardcover)
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 Medinah but never to get in. We tried, guard wouldn't even let us enter to even turnaround. Funny, but not one of my favorites.
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