I Know Absolutely Nothing About Golf: A New Golfer's Guide to the Game's Traditions, Rules, Etiquette, Equipment, and Language

by Steve Eubanks, Whitney Crouse

The definitive book on golf for the beginner. A terrific primer that covers areas such as traditions, terminology, rules, etiquette, and more. Illustrated.

127 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1996

Reviews

[thewestchestarian]

"Golf for Dummies" with a nominal plot. Eubanks weaves a nominal story around golf's basics - as delineated in the subtitle. The inclusion of the plot adds nearly nothing to simply picking up Golf for Dummies and reading that. As you expect Eubanks protagonist achieves success after 30 days of training for the client golf event she inadvertently signs up for. Eubanks skims over the fact that middle-aged executives need a solid year of focused training to achieve enough proficiency just to avoid embarrassment on a real 18 hole course. Of course, highlighting the actual difficulty in acquiring the muscle memory needed would put readers off the game and thus off buying books about it. Thus the star of the show and her gurus in the various disciplines (etiquette, rules, etc.) make it seem unrealistically easy. However, the slim, terse, primer makes for productive bathroom reading. In short, better beginner books on the topic exist but worse ones do as well.