Golf is not a game. It's an addiction!

The game of golf is an impenetrable mystery, a frequent journey into Neverland where one can never guess what wonders – or terrors – lie just beyond the next dogleg. This golf-centered memoir tracks the humorous side of where the author has been and what he has done on the golf course and, once in a while, between rounds.

Zane Robbins wanted to play baseball for the New York Yankees, but he ended up writing about the Class-B Winston-Salem Twins and, later, a wide range of college and professional baseball, football, basketball and even stock car racing events. He also ended up with a lifetime addiction: golf. After experiencing the low pay and high satisfaction of journalism, he transitioned to public relations for General Electric Company where the pay was better but the satisfaction less. Then came a stint as an executive of a major PR firm and eventually his own firm. He ended his business career as a principal in Arthur Andersen Worldwide, where he was executive director of the firm’s Global Markets Program. Meanwhile, he kept hacking away on golf courses domestic and foreign, encountering along the way a bewildering cast of characters who had nothing in common but golf – bad golf at that. He and his wife are empty-nesters living in golf-hostile Evanston, Illinois, where he spends the long winters cursing snow, sleet, wind and subfreezing temperatures.