Archive for June 8, 2009
THE DOWNHILL LIE by Carl Hiaasen
Returning to golf thirty-two years after he gave it up, author Carl Hiaasen, famous for his off-beat and hilarious South Florida mysteries, shares his struggles to relearn the game of golf and maybe, even, learn to have fun with it. Golf is not a natural “fit” for Hiaasen—”I was just as restless, consumed, unreflective, fatalistic, and emotionally unequipped to play golf in my fifties as I was in my teens,” he admits. So why did he do it? “I’m one sick bastard.”
June 8, 2009
Tags: golf, Humorous Posted in: Florida, Humorous, Non-fiction
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