On Par: The Everyday Golfer’s Survival Guide

As the author of the beloved and widely read "On Par" golf column, Bill Pennington has traveled the globe in search of golf's essentials—those basic principles, those elusive truths (and who are we kidding, any trick or quick fix he can pick up along the way) that will improve anyone's game. Or at least that will make an afternoon round as fulfilling as possible. He has consulted the world's leading golf instructors as well as countless caddies, groundskeepers, parking lot attendants. He has played rounds with Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, Justin Timberlake. He has sought the advice of psychiatrists, physicists, economists, zen masters. And on a particularly bad golf outing, he has even had discourse on the fickleness of golf with woodland creatures, including a quite helpful raccoon.

In On Par, Pennington distills the wisdom he has obtained in his travels in an entertaining and insightful guide to the game. From equipment and instruction, to the rules and language of golf, to camaraderie and psychology, to the short game/long game debate, to golf's holy grail—the hole in one—Bill Pennington informs and entertains readers as he gets to the essence of this most mysterious game. Topics include: 

Part instruction, part education, part hilarity, On Par is a little red book for the 21st century, a book no golfer, whether weekend duffer, scratch golfer, or PGA pro, can afford to miss.