This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with golf at the age of eleven. He explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf-club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an eleven-year prison stint-just to name a few. Reilly also mines all of the game's quirky traditions and expounds on every enigmatic figure in the game, from Bobby Jones to Jack Nicklaus to Greg Norman to Tiger Woods to Phil Mickelson, and many more. Connecting it all is the story of Reilly's own personal journey through the game, especially as it relates to his tumultuous relationship with his father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in a treasure trove of original pieces that no golfer will want to be without.