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Is the father I wanted the father my children want me to be? In his fifties, writer Tad Friend grapples with the complexities of being a husband and father while seeking to understand his own father. Torn between two families and stages of life, he oscillates between feeling vigorous and facing the realities of aging. Tad reflects on his relationship with his father, Theodore Friend, a charismatic historian and former president of Swarthmore College, who was warm with others yet distant with his children. Tad describes attempts to connect with him as akin to "ice fishing." Now, as his father focuses on trivial matters, Tad discovers a collection of his father's passionate confessions, revealing a man far more complex than the logical figure he always knew. This revelation leads Tad to recognize self-destructive patterns he shares with Day, a secret they both kept hidden. These insights prompt Tad to reevaluate his roles as both a father and a son. Yet, he wonders if it’s too late for them to bridge their emotional divide. The quest for understanding and connection unfolds against the backdrop of life’s relentless passage.

Ever since the Dark Ages, when a few Scots ambled over the dunes with their het kolvin sticks, slapping a ball around in something akin to golf, no sport has more universally or irreversibly awed its players and fans. THE ULTIMATE GOLF BOOK captures the world's ultimate sporting passion as it has never been captured before, with a lively, authoritative history, stunning illustrations, and perhaps the finest collection of original writing on the sport ever assembled between two covers. Putting a fresh, contemporary spin on the centuries-old story of golf, Sports Illustrated's colorful senior writer John Garrity has written a delightful, loose-limbed riff of a history that travels the globe and the links, covering the key personalities, events, advances in technique and technology, proliferation of interest, and curious mystery of this international obsession. Complementing the history are twenty personal essays from a diverse group of literary low-handicappers, musing on everything from the Age of Tiger, to the woes of the lowly club pro, to the charm of playing golf in the dead of winter, to giving up the game altogether. All of this plays out against the dramatic backdrop of more than 300 photographs and illustrations, many rare and historic, many commissioned especially for this volume, which is truly one of a kind. From the tee to the green, the clubhouse to the nuthouse, THE ULTIMATE GOLF BOOK is a must-have for any serious student of the game.