Badger's Golf Compendium

The Essential Illustrated Handbook for Clubhouse Bores

Niall Edworthy

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Badger Books Limited
25 July 2024

Humour; Sports training & coaching; Golf

Series: Badger Humour

A beautifully illustrated, humorous glossary of curious golfing terms and hilarious slang as used by millions of professionals and amateurs around the world, an essential handbook for all players and followers of sport's most frustrating game, packed with wicked, witty, waspish and weird wordage from the world's fairways and clubhouses.

The older the sport, the richer the language and culture. Few sports can claim a heritage as ancient as golf, and few are richer in error-strewn comedy, spiteful asides and cruel jibes. My friend in the bunker, my enemy on the green...

Adolf Hitler, Airmail, Amen Corner, Army Golf ... Bandit, Brassie, Brazilian, Breakfast Ball ... Ferret, Flub, Flusher, Fried Egg ... Rabbit, Rickshaw, Ryanair, Rushdie ... Waggle, Whiff, Wise (Dennis), Wormburner... this exquisitely designed book contains over 400 curious and laugh-out-loud words and phrases from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.

From St. Andrews to Augusta, Royal St. George's to The Royal Melbourne, Sunningdale to Sun City, Pebble Beach to Pine Valley... golfers share the same funny language, united in humour and exasperation by the same challenges, hazards, obstacles and duff errors.

This densely packed volume of hilarious terms is essential reading for every golf enthusiast and clubhouse bore ever to have found themselves on a Claggy Lie on a Goat Track, pulled out the Hand Wedge deep in the Cabbage or smashed a Ferret out of the Kitty Litter, the perfect gift from golf widows and widowers around the globe.

Sample Entries:

Captain Kirk - Wild shot, going where no shot has gone before Cuban - Ball just short of the hole that needed another revolution to get in. See Corbyn, Jeremy Laurel & Hardy - Fat shot followed by a thin one, or vice-versa Mouth Wedge - A gobby golfer who talks too much and bugs hell out of his playing partners Salman Rushdie - A difficult read Son-in-law - Of a shot that you weren't really hoping for, but it will just about do.

By: Niall Edworthy
Imprint: Badger Books Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2
ISBN: 9781738452248
ISBN 10: 1738452247
Series: Badger Humour
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 25 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Niall Edworthy is one of the UK's most prolific authors and successful ghostwriters. A former reporter for broadsheet newspapers and the international wire agencies AFP and Reuters, Niall began writing books in 1997. He is the author or ghost of almost 50 titles, most for the big publishing houses, many of them ghosted for well-known names (actors, soldiers, musicians, sportsmen & television personalities), others for 'ordinary' people with extraordinary stories. He has written in a wide range of genres, mainly Biography, History and Natural History but also Humour, Sport and recently, in Fiction. His first novel, Otto Eckhart's Ordeal, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Best Published Novel Award 2021. He will soon be publishing his second novel. He lives in West Sussex, UK.