In June 2010, Paul Laubach made the unfortunate decision to play all of the top 100 golf courses available to the public, according to Golf Magazine. Spread over 45 months, he managed to complete his goal despite numerous weather, course maintenance and other logistical issues...not to mention his own “senior moment.” The journey covered 87,814 air miles and another 17,051 by automobile. During the trek he suffered two frozen shoulders, a bad lower back, golfer's elbow (left), tennis elbow (right), three major sunburns, hundreds of mosquito bites, poison oak, plus numerous cuts and bruises chasing errant shots into the woods, desert and other prickly flora. None of this was as painful as the cost associated with losing 117 Pro V1s. A confirmed golf addict and cheapskate, he is now chronicling his adventures for his heirs (who will probably get nothing else, as he wasted the estate on this boondoggle).

"Confessions of a Golfaholic is a self-deprecating look at one golfer's efforts to satiate his addiction with the game of golf. During his quest, Laubach had the opportunity to visit such golf hotbeds as Choctaw, Mississippi, Biwabik, Minnesota, Gothenburg, Nebraska and Mesquite, Nevada. He played in temperatures ranging from 32 degrees to 103 degrees, with snow flurries, wind, driving rain, tornado warnings and heat advisories. Five times he needed to return to a venue due to a variety of logistical nightmares and his own incompetence. Through Confessions of a Golfaholic you can create your own great golf experiences by avoiding the many missteps of the author."--Backcover.

Caddyshack meets Breaking Bad! Tom and Carol have the perfect life: good job, happy home, two wonderful kids. While Carol yearns for Tom to join in her search for new age spiritual bliss, Tom's boss insists he take up golf as a business networking tool. In a classic cautionary tale of a happy marriage gone adrift, follow our hero Tom as his obsession takes hold and steers him down a dark twisted road of substance; in this case the substance is golf! When Tom's new found golf lust and Carol's spirit world collide, magic happens. (Spoiler Alert!) Tom comes to believe he's channeling the spirit of the great one, Ben Hogan, and becomes hell bent on unlocking the secret of the "Hogan Swing." Dismayed, Carol seeks out other golf widows for advice but when she hears one woman exclaim, "My husband wouldn't have sex with me now unless I painted myself green and stuck a flag between my legs!" Carol puts her foot down: "It's either me or golf." What Tom does next turns their world upside down!

The legendary comedian's "swinging" memoirs are available at last in paperback, featuring a brand new chapter and photographs.

Caddyshack meets Breaking Bad! Tom and Carol have the perfect life: good job, happy home, two wonderful kids. While Carol yearns for Tom to join in her search for new age spiritual bliss, Tom's boss insists he take up golf as a business networking tool. In a classic cautionary tale of a happy marriage gone adrift, follow our hero Tom as his obsession takes hold and steers him down a dark twisted road of substance; in this case the substance is golf! When Tom's new found golf lust and Carol's spirit world collide, magic happens. (Spoiler Alert!) Tom comes to believe he's channeling the spirit of the great one, Ben Hogan, and becomes hell bent on unlocking the secret of the "Hogan Swing." Dismayed, Carol seeks out other golf widows for advice but when she hears one woman exclaim, "My husband wouldn't have sex with me now unless I painted myself green and stuck a flag between my legs!" Carol puts her foot down: "It's either me or golf." What Tom does next turns their world upside down

The author shares his golf experiences and offers a humorous look at an ecounter with an alligator, the 17 drivers and putters in his garage, and unusual episodes from the history of golf.

Christina Kim is the brashest, bawdiest, funniest player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. Golf fans know her for her colorful wardrobe, even more colorful on-course antics, and an explosive game. But in this rollicking account of the 2009 season, Kim invites readers deep into her life, providing an intimate diary of a young woman's struggles on and off the golf course, and revealing the glory and heartbreak of life on the tour. Once known as a prodigy who shot a 62 in her first LPGA event some six years ago, Kim has newly rededicated herself to realizing her potential, and she takes readers between the ropes for all the action, including her nail-biting near misses at two major championships. She also goes inside the team room at the Solheim Cup, revealing the hijinks and late-night gab sessions that bonded the victorious U.S. team. Along the way we get intimate portraits of her close friends on tour, including tour leaders such as Michelle Wie, Lorena Ochoa, Paula Creamer, Morgan Pressel, and Natalie Gulbis. In this courageous telling, no topic is out-of-bounds, as Kim dishes about the LPGA's sexual mores, the culture clash of an American-based tour increasingly dominated by Koreans, the tumultuous economic forces squeezing the players, and her own battles with body image and her traditional upbringing. Winsome and good-natured, but never afraid of a laugh line or choice profanity, Christina Kim provides a must-read for anyone who loves golf or has wondered about the inner self of a professional athlete.

This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.