The Hilarious Guide to Golf, a new comic guide to the strange emotional world of golf obsession, has gone on sale.
Most golf writing is instructional, technical, equipment-focused, or built around helping people improve or generic golf gags. This book takes a different satirical angle. It is written for people who love golf but also recognise that the game can make otherwise sensible adults spend four hours walking through shrubbery, blaming wind direction, course design, moisture levels, ball manufacturers, and occasionally their own central nervous system.
Written by Chris Halden, and published by Foxglove and Finches, and part of the part of The Hilarious Guide to… series, this 172-page book is affectionate rather than cynical. It pokes fun at golfers because it understands them: the optimistic new driver purchase, the ceremonial loss of a premium ball, the terrifying phrase ‘just one more hole’, and the eternal belief that the next round might finally be the one where everything comes together.
Aimed at club golfers, weekend golfers, golf dads and mums, golf gift buyers, and anyone who has ever stood over a two-foot putt and briefly forgotten how their hands work, The Hilarious Guide to Golf charts the three-putts, the bunker trauma, the ruined scorecards, the suspicious swing tips, the expensive equipment optimism, and the heroic ability to describe a round of 104 as “actually not that bad apart from a couple of holes”.
Trade copies are available directly to golf clubs, pro shops, societies and event organisers. For all trade enquiries, contact foxgloveandfinchpublishing@outlook.com.