From Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly comes this spoof of all things golf and country club. Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston and play golf together at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky. An eighteen-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a concrete river surrounded by a chain-link fence and the pillars of the elevated train track that runs through the course, it is reputed to be the worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to the municipal course lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston. The rollicking plot includes a bet to see who will be first to sneak in a round at the Mayflower, as well as the narrator's attempts to reach some sort of reasonable understanding with his overbearing father. "You don't need to know your bogeys from your birdies to find at least three laughs per page in this novel." "Part Damon Runyon, part Raymond Chandler, and part Caddyshack…I was hooked for the full 18." "Snappy prose, believable characters, and the funniest take on blue-collar hacking and gambling since Dan Jenkins' The Glory Game at Goat Hill…it's social satire and pure irreverence that keep this story in the groove." "A great piece of fiction." "If you're obsessed with the 'green game,' and it's raining or snowing, or we're under nuclear attack so you can't get out on the course, Missing Links should give you a temporary fix." "Easily the wittiest golf novel yet-the Bull Durham of the genre, and the closest thing to Caddyshack on paper we're likely to get…A loving, knowledgeable, laugh-out-loud portrait of the Hardest Sport There Is, as practiced by the blue-collar rakes who compose golf's most devoted fans." "Don't get started reading this book. It will take three burly men to pull you away from it."
