Shanks for Nothing

ISBN-13: 9780767906647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str.

Rick Reilly

Opis

The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly s beloved bestselling golf novel Missing Links

Life is going pretty well for Raymond Stick Hart. He s happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop. Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No. 1 and under the billboard on No. 8, the fried-egg sandwiches are terrible but cheap, and his pal Two Down is always up for a sucker bet.
Then, one disaster of a day, Stick s world does a ten-car pile-up. The cheapskate bastard owner of Ponky announces he s retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes Stick s hated father.
Who promptly drops dead.
Just before Stick s pal Two Down loses $12,000 to a golf hustler who turns out to be funded by the Russian mob.
Which is about the same time that Hoover, Ponky s worst golfer and the owner of an impressive array of useless golf gadgets purchased with his wife s money, learns she ll cut him off if he doesn t break a hundred in one month.
Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick s been stepping out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and he s soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse.
Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems.
He ll qualify for the British Open."