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Ever question how to get a sunken golfing cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which golf club in your carrier is most effective for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you, The Downhill Lay, Carl Hiaasen’s hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways following a thirty-two-year absence, is certainly the e book for you.
Formerly drawn to the overall game by his dad, Carl wisely quit golfing in 1973, when “Richard Nixon was hunkered down such as a meth-crazed badger in the White House, Hank Aaron was one dinger shy of Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record, plus the Who possessed just released Quadrophenia.” But some ambitions won't die, so that the years—and memories of shanked 7-irons—faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be a very important factor in life he could do better in middle get older than he could as a junior. So gradually he ventured back again to the dreaded driving a car range, this time as the father of any five-year-old son—and also as a grandfather.
“What has a man to come back in midlife to a game at which he’d never excelled in his leading, and which actually possessed dealt him generally failure, angst and exasperation? Here’s why I did it: I’m one ill bastard.”
And thus we have Carl’s foray into a world of baffling titanium technology, high-priced golfing experts, bizarre infomercial gimmicks and the mind-bending happening of PADRAIG HARRINGTON; a maddening world of hooks and slices where Carl inevitably—and foolishly—agrees to be competitive in a country-club event against players who can in fact hit the ball. “That’s the trick of the sport’s infernal seduction,” he writes. “It surrenders sufficient good images to enable you to speak yourself out of quitting.”
Hiaasen’s chronicle of his shaky go back to this bedeviling pastime and the ensuing demolition of his self-esteem—culminating with the savage 45-gap event—will perhaps you have moving with laughter. The bittersweet memories of using his own dad and the shine he feels when enjoying his own young son belt the ball down the fairway will also touch your center. Ignore Tiger, Phil and Ernie. If you wish to understand the real lure of golfing, turn to Carl Hiaasen, that has written a fantastic book for the normal hacker.
