Bad Lies: A Field Guide to Lost Balls, Missing Links, and Other Golf Mishaps

by Charles Lindsay, Gary McCord (Foreword by)

In Bad Lies , golf's wittiest observer, photographer Charles Lindsay, celebrates the hazards and pitfalls of the game. Lindsay stakes out the diabolic border territories that encroach on golf courses -- moon-crater bunkers, waist-high fescue grass, murky lake bottoms -- to capture the unbelievable my-ball-went-where? moments that make the game so infuriating and so addictive for so many.

This hilarious follow-up to Lindsay's popular Lost Balls features inspired and gorgeous color photographs, plus larger-than-life pictures of some of the world's rarest -- and oddest -- golf balls. Texts include a foreword by outspoken golf commentator Gary McCord, definitions of the game's offbeat terminology, and a meditation on the golf ball and the immortal soul.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 24, 2010

About the author

Charles Lindsay has made a career of photographing the intersection of nature and culture. Whether living with a rain-forest tribe, exploring the world of fly-fishing, or turning the game of golf on its head, Lindsay has focused on our complex relationship to the natural world. He is the author of Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies; Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West; Turtle Islands: Balinese Ritual and the Green Turtle; and Mentawai Shaman: Keeper of the Rain Forest. Between journeys he resides in New York City; Sun Valley, Idaho; and in the northern Catskills.

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

No meat on this bone. If one is going to produce a book of "bad lies" in golf, all the pictures should be of bad lies. Every golf fan has seen pictures of Paula Creamer, Kristie Kerr, Tiger Woods, and a myriad other PGA and LPGA professionals. Like cheap meat, this book has a lot of filler pictures not relating to the title.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this on first reads.

This is great for not only the golfers in our lives but also for anyone interested in older items from our country and even those just into a lighthearted read. I will be keeping this one for a long time.

[Mike Benson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book from a Good Reads contest for free. This book is a great coffee table book, would be a great Father's Day present for the avid golfer. The pictures are great and very funny. Highly recommended!!!

[Randy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely worth having as a coffee table book. It has sharp and interesting pictures, which depict some challenging lies that any avid golfer knows that these can and do happen!
Gary McCord's foreward is a great read. He, as always, offers some humour that brings a smile to your face.

[Bonnie Wall]

Great coffee table book or for golf fan. Wonderful photography on the many places golf balls end up. This book would make a great gift for any golfer.