Straight Down The Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing

by Josh Karp

Straight Down the Middle is a humorous and insightful account of journalist and former-18-handicap golfer Josh Karp's quest to achieve inner peace and improve his golf gameall through the art of Zen. Assisted by a quirky roster of excellent practitioners of esoteric, Eastern-fueled, nontraditional golf instruction, Karp embarks on a unique journey across the fairways of North America (and Scotland, of course!) that's as funny as it is illuminating. A golf story in the tradition of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Straight Down the Middle is a blend of helpful tips and hilarious memoir that's a must-read for golfers of all stripes and plaids.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published February 17, 2010

Reviews

[Betty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Since I love golf and love the book Golf in the Kingdom, which features Shivas Irons, this was a really fun book for me. In fact, I had so much fun reading it that when I finished it, I immediately read it again. It is also a very funny book. I think I bought it on the Kindle for $0.99.

[Phil Griffin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun yarn about seeking the zen of golf, but only for those of us truly addicted to the game.

[Valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some interesting and funny parts to the book, overall it was ok.