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|pages=208
|publisher=Allen Lane
|date=June 2007
|isbn=978-0713999969
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''After an abominable round, a man is known to have slit his wrists with a razor blade and, having bandaged them, to stumble into the locker room and enquire of his partner: "What time tomorrow?"''
The book is obviously of more interest to someone with some knowledge of the sport, but even a passing interest will make this a compelling read. Cooke's style, wit and incisive analysis are timeless. I'd like to thank the publishers for sending this book to The Bookbag.
For those with an interest in the sport The Bookbag can recommend a superb work of fiction - [[The Back Nine]] by Billy Mott - but for a look at golf in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century from a rather different angle you might appreciate Colin Montgomerie's [[The Real Monty]]. You might also appreciate [[The Phantom of The Open: Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer by Scott Murray and Simon Farnaby]] - the R&A certainly didn't! We loved [[The Bluffer's Guide to Golf (Bluffer's Guides) by Adam Ruck]].
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|comment= Bloody hell! It's a male Magee! PG Wodehouse, he say:
''Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.
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