The Golf Omnibus | 
 enlarge | Author: P.g. Wodehouse
Publisher: Gramercy
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 106072
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0517057948
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780517057940
ASIN: 0517057948
Publication Date: March 3, 1996
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Condition: Lightly worn dustcover
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Product Description
31 perfect golf shots from the pen of P.G. Wodehouse. Play the game the P.G. Wodehouse way—with wit, charm, and a touch of mischief. You'll discover:
• How love on the links can lead to the worst kinds of hazards.
• A nation where golf is God and all the subjects are in heaven.
• Wagers in the rough that can drive millionaires to distraction.
• The terrors of teeing off, the frustrations on the fairway, the perils of putting,
and much, much more!
Stories that will keep you on course...and keep you laughing!
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Another Great Wodehouse February 13, 2008
Another entertaining, stimulating and vibrant work from the inimitable Wodehouse. This book of short golf stories is the perfect gift for everyone who is a golfer, or aspires to be one. That is, if you can bear to part with such a brilliant piece of literature! Wodehouse rules!
A hole in one ! September 27, 2007
It`s a nice hole in one , for all the 36 handicaps ! . Enjoy , read this book and your slices and hooks will be painless . Evem if you play with your wife/husband !!!
Get it now July 22, 2007
If you or someone you know likes golf,OR if you or someone you know likes P.G.Wodehouse,I promise you cant go wrong with this book. All of his golfing stories are here and they are all top notch. A keeper.
Its a classic April 5, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The manner in which Wodehouse has developed the characters in the stories is indeed amazing. One hilarius feature I noticed in many of the stories is the attempt made by the victim (listener) to escape from the oldest member's clutches whenever he begins to narrate a story.
Wodehouse is at the top of his form in this one. Die hard Wodehouse fans should not die without reading this one.
I hate golf. I love this. March 5, 2004
Great literature is supposed to bring you an appreciation of something you hadn't considered before. Wodehouse's golf stories did it for me like few others. None are terribly subtle--most are told by the Oldest Member, who on the first half-page collars a helpless younger golfer and tells him a story that turns out to be worth staying for. The narration is slightly sarcastic, and there are only two types of stories at heart: guy and girl made for each other get married because of golf, or guy uses golf to avoid girl unfit for him. There's always a subplot of a bad golfer breaking 100 or two longtime rivals in an 18 hole match, but nothing seems to get reused.Despite using upper-crust characters in his stories, Wodehouse's work exhibits only a fake pretension. Plus there are cool names and recurring characters such as the golf champ Sandy McHoots. It's a bit more comprehensible than some Yoknapathawpa nonsense. A love triangle through three stories features a poet who(gasp) recites his poetry while people focus loses a golferess to a golfer, almost regains her, and then tries to learn golf courting her sister. Nobody is evil, although some people deserve--and get--a good comic socking. But what makes Wodehouse appealing is how his characters are comically obsessed with golf. I have better things to be obsessed with, but I was able to connect with this and recognize how Wodehouse laughs at them. After I stopped laughing. I've never read a collection of stories more insightful, easy to follow and enjoyable.
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