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 enlarge | Author: Rick Reilly
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Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 44889
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 278
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0385488866
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385488860
ASIN: 0385488866
Publication Date: May 19, 2000
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 Missing Links November 11, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book Missing Links by Rick Reilly is a book about a group of low class friends who play at the worst golf course in America called Ponky. The group of friends, called Chops, loves their golf course even though it is inhabited by a sewage treatment plant and run down billboards, and where the cups are pulled out of the ground like volcanoes. Other than the Chops unstable jobs, Ponky is their life.
One day while the Chops were playing a game with another frivolous bet on the line Crowbar, a fat chop who never plays golf, said something to disturb Hoover, a 120 pound die hard golfer. Hoover got so mad he took out his 16 foot ball retriever and swung it at Crowbar. Hoover missed and ended up making a large hole in a hedge through which they could see the Mayflower Country Club, the snootiest most exclusive club in America, right next to the worst course in the world.
The Chops were mesmerized by the beauty of the Mayflower and Two Down made a bet where everyone put in [money]whoever played the Mayflower without any other Chops with them got the money. Everyone tried hard to get into the Mayflower, but the Mayflower only invites people with [money]who are the descendants of the people who came to America on the Mayflower. To find out what happens you will have to read the rest of the book.
I recommend Missing Links to any golfer that has a good sense of humor. Reading this book will make any day better and give you something to think about when you are sad. The characters in the novel are simply hilarious and unforgettable. The book makes you feel like your life is a little better and it adds a smile to your face.
Wonderful summer read August 29, 2002
This is the only comic golf mystery novel I've ever read, but I hope it won't be my last. It passed all three tests:
1. It fairly represents, within the bounds of editorial license, the game of golf
2. I laughed out loud often reading it
3. I didn't guess the answer to the mystery, which was compelling enough to keep me reading even when there weren't as many laughs.
Anyone who liked Caddyshack and is a golfer will like this book.
 The must read golf book June 9, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After the first year I included the word golfer in my personal description I realized there was no 12 step program strong enough to help me. We would spend many afternoons time at the clubhouse over pitchers of beer and stale, free popcorn wishing for the days when caddies were somebody else. We shared stories, desires and frustrations. All about our life as golfers. A few years later I started playing at country clubs instead of dog tracks. To my surprise I realized I had more fun shooting over concrete ditches, and actually having a shot that worked over the man-hole cover off the 4th green. I thought I was destined to play with Judge Smailes and Dr. Beeper the rest of my life. I wanted golf to be fun again. I didn't want it to feel like a job, or television interview. Then I read Missing Links, and realized there were other certifiable folks with the same twisted view that life was better when you are your own caddy. Even if your swing looks resembles a man trapped in a moving car with a bee.
Missing Links by Rick Reilly May 22, 2002
Missing Links is an outstanding book that everyone can read. The book is about a middle-aged man and his friends that all play golf at a course called Ponky. When the course was first built, it was decent but over the years, it's been let go. These guys all have a stay at home job so they are out on the golf course everyday. One morning whn they are out on the course, one of his friends get's a club stuck in a bush. So they all try and pull it out, and as a result they rip a hole in the bush. The hole gives them a great view of one of the greatest courses in the world called The Mayflower Country Club. This club is as private as you can get, you have to have a special invitation to have a chance in getting accepted. All of them had heard of the golf course right next-door but none of them had ever seen it. The course is well protected by fifteen foot brick walls all around and guards patrol day and night. I'm not going to tell you much more about the book because that would give away the rest of the book. This book would be good for high school age and up because of the language. This book is for fans of Rick Reilly's writing and for sports and golf fans everywhere. Missing Links was one of the best book that I have ever read.
Missing Links by Rick Reilly May 22, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Missing Links is an outstanding book that everyone can read. The book is about a middle-aged man and his friends that all play golf at a course called Ponky. When the course was first built, it was decent but over the years, it's been let go. These guys all have a stay at home job so they are out on the golf course everyday. One morning whn they are out on the course, one of his friends get's a club stuck in a bush. So they all try and pull it out, and as a result they rip a hole in the bush. The hole gives them a great view of one of the greatest courses in the world called The Mayflower Country Club. This club is as private as you can get, you have to have a special invitation to have a chance in getting accepted. All of them had heard of the golf course right next-door but none of them had ever seen it. The course is well protected by fifteen foot brick walls all around and guards patrol day and night. I'm not going to tell you much more about the book because that would give away the rest of the book. This book would be good for high school age and up because of the language. This book is for fans of Rick Reilly's writing and for sports and golf fans everywhere. Missing Links was one of the best book that I have ever read.
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