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 enlarge | Author: Rick Reilly
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 869133
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.3
ASIN: B0007CTWBO
Publication Date: May 4, 2004
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 Whos Your Caddy October 2, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Was very Fun to read, keeps your attention. Each chapter
reveals the inside life of some famous people. Cant hardly wait to get it finished. JOhn L. Bonner
Reilly's Right On January 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is perhaps the funniest book I've ever read on golf and that's saying something because I read Feherty's work all the time. I enjoyed it so much I bought two more copies for friends and also gave my copy away to a dear friend who taught me about enjoying the game of golf. I enjoyed it so much I read it in two evenings. If you like golf stories and you like to laugh this book is a must.
Want your fix without the greens fees? Reilly does the trick. November 1, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was really pleased with Reilly's effort here. After initially hearing the author shilling the book on Jim Rome back when it was first released on hardcover, I never had much of an inclination to read it. I've found the bits of Reilly's work that I've read in SI often too sentimental and too snarky.
In the meantime I have picked up a fairly serious interest in golf, and when I stumbled across the book again, I thought I would pick it up. "Who's Your Caddy?" won me over and proved that I had been haboring a number of misconceptions.
First, you needn't be a golfer to enjoy the work. There are some moments where Reilly sinks into golf-speak of the kind that I think every weekend player grows tired of by about the second tee when you're out playing with that clown from work or the brother-in-law who's sporting a [...] putter, [...] irons, and a $1 million ego because he's a 4 handicapper. But, the book mostly takes a trip around the course that is accessible to golf novices. Especially when Reilly joins amateurs like Donald Trump (I've always wanted to find a way to plausibly refer to Trump as an amaetur) and Deepak Chopra for a round, the story moves quickly and humorously.
Reilly even convinced me that he isn't the guy I would have thought he had to be after reading his SI work. Like the [...], naked under his raincoat, Reilly can't seem to help himself from unleashing overweight sarcastic sidebars. These inhibit the best parts of the story, but with a self-depricating twist that ususally leaves him as his own target, these diversions actually contained some redeeming moments.
Finally, he does descend into melodrama (the typical golf schlock type stuff, i.e. golf is the great game that challenges your will and quickens your mind and personifies American freedom), but only very rarely, and that restraint rescues the book from what might have become the nonfiction take on Bagger Vance.
Other reviews are right on target, this is not the kind of Updike, Heinz, etc. sports writing that actually captures the humanity and value of sports on paper - its silliness. But, on a summer afternoon when you'd rather save the $250 in greens fees and lost balls, this book should do the trick.
Very Good and Very Funny October 19, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Even if you are not a golf fan I suggest you read this book. I am only a casual golf fan, and still found this book to be good. Reilly tells his experience with each golfer with a lot of humor and insight on how each one lives, plays the game of golf, and how they deal with certain aspects of the golf world and life itself. You will find yourself laughing out loud during this book (especially during his experience at The Masters). If you like golf, you will love this book! If you don't, you will still find it to be worth your time.
LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY! August 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Laugh out loud funny - I own the book and this purchase was for a friend and colleage that appreciates the same dry wit and humor that I do. Rick Reilly strikes again!
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