We Should Have Kept the Dog by Randy Oakes, published by Outskirts Press

We Should Have Kept the Dog

A Golfer's Tale

by Randy Oakes

We Should Have Kept the Dog

A Golfer's Tale

by Randy Oakes

Published Mar 30, 2022
147 Pages
6 x 9 Black & White Paperback
Genre: FICTION / Sports

Qty:

Find eBook/audiobook editions or buy the paperback or hardback at:

Book Details

In the backwater flatlands of a small southern Indiana town on a storied, old nine-hole golf course hard on the banks of the Ohio River a 15-year-old boy enjoys the summer of 1961 playing golf and learning about life. For this young man, the summer starts in June as a contestant in an adult 36-hole tournament in southern Illinois, a tournament that he leads after the first hole. The summer ends in August in Louisville, Kentucky, on the 18th hole of his first match in his first men’s match play tournament. It tells of the events that made up his summer and the last summer of the grand old golf course and its culture.

About the Author

Randy Oakes

Randy Oakes (a.k.a. Barr Snooks) has written short stories to entertain family and friends for over 30 years. He has authored an eBook of golf instruction for senior golfers, The No Name Book of Golf, and self-published a book of short stories, The Midwest Chronicles. We Should Have Kept the Dog is his first novel. He was born in 1946, attended New Albany High School, Ball State University and John Herron School of Art of Indiana University. He spent two years in the U.S. Army keeping the soviets on the right side of the Czech border. He's lived in Southern Indiana all of his life with the exception of a five-year stint in Florida. Florida became the background for a lot of his short stories. He spends his spare time reading, playing golf, painting and enjoying his two grandsons.