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What’s your biggest golf course pet peeve? Is it cellphones, slow play, golf cart daredevils? According to Peter Post in his book “In Playing Through: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Golf,” it’s slow play–cited by two-thirds of the people he surveyed. Posts’s book is coming out next week and also covers such topics as “what to do when you hit into other golfers or they hit into you,” “dealing with temper tantrums on the course,” and “dealing with cheaters.”
Post should know his etiquette–golf or not. He’s the great-grandson of etiquette maven, Emily Post. The Massachussets resident …read more

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We have a winner in the book giveaway. It’s Gautami Tripathy from “Reading and More Reading“
Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing and shared their favorite golf courses. Look for more about the favorite golf courses and more giveaways in the next few weeks.
For those who didn’t win, but are still interested in the book, “The Downhill Lie” is available via Amazon.com and most book retailers.

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It’s “bloggy giveaway” week and here at “Green Posse” we’re offering a copy of Carl Hiaasen’s new humorous look at golf, “The Downhill Lie: a Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport.” Hiaasen is best known for his satirical and funny mystery novels set in south Florida. He also writes a regular column for the Miami Herald.
In “Downhill Lie,” Hiaasen answers such questions as how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake and which club is best suited for combat against a horde of rat? He also describes his return to the game of his youth–a …read more

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You know when a devout poker player starts talking about how much a novel makes him want to hit the links that the novel in question has to contain some vivid golf scenes. That’s just what b5 poker blogger, Blake Butler, talked about this afternoon in his post about Toby Olsen’s 2007 novel, “Seaview.” Though not a golf book, per se, much of the action in this novel, which won a PEN/Faulkner Award Award, takes place on the golf course, the protagonist being a golf hustler. It sounds like a good read.
“Seaview” is available from Books-a-Million or your favorite …read more

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