The game of golf...
...seems to have a natural affinity with great humour writing. And that is not to be wondered at, since if you described it to the classic man from Mars, he would be apt to think you were either having him on or stark staring bonkers. But whatever may be said of the sanity of its inventors and practitioners, one thing is certain: it has given rise to much deliriously funny writing. Wodehouse's golfing short stories are perhaps the greatest literary achievement on any sport (with the possible exception of JH Carr's How the Steeple Sinderby FC won the FA Cup, but a neck ahead of Dick Francis' wonderful horse-racing thrillers), and they are matched by an avalanche of golfing cartoons and vignettes, including the many hilarious comic strips of the late and very much lamented Johnny Hart (B.C.).
It was inevitable that when someone saw fit to deliver a really stinging indictment of the game, he would do so in hilarious prose. And it has happened, of all places, in that most po-faced and unwitty of conservative outlets, American Thinker. But if you want to open your year with a good chuckle - and that is whether you love golf or not - you should go and read it. The more since, in typical fashion, being in receipt of an absolute, light-hearted gem of an article, the politically-obsessive readership of American Thinker have not left so much as one comment so far. http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_last_great_tiger_hunt.html
EDITED IN: they have now left a few comments. But, as was to be expected, most of them are humourless, often political, and in at least one case misguided in the extreme.
It was inevitable that when someone saw fit to deliver a really stinging indictment of the game, he would do so in hilarious prose. And it has happened, of all places, in that most po-faced and unwitty of conservative outlets, American Thinker. But if you want to open your year with a good chuckle - and that is whether you love golf or not - you should go and read it. The more since, in typical fashion, being in receipt of an absolute, light-hearted gem of an article, the politically-obsessive readership of American Thinker have not left so much as one comment so far. http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_last_great_tiger_hunt.html
EDITED IN: they have now left a few comments. But, as was to be expected, most of them are humourless, often political, and in at least one case misguided in the extreme.