Badger's Golf Compendium : The Essential Illustrated Handbook for Clubhouse Bores

A wittily illustrated, humorous glossary of curious golfing terms and hilarious slang as used by millions of professionals and amateurs around the world, an essential handbook for all players and followers of sport's most frustrating game, packed with waspish and weird wordage from the world's fairways and clubhouses.

A wickedly funny A to Z of golfing terms, the perfect gift for anyone who has ever taken to the fairways. This irreverent handbook is packed with the funniest slang words, outrageous phrases and bizarre jargon as used daily by professionals and social golfers around the world. Essential laugh-out-loud reading for all players and followers of sport's most infuriating game, packed with witty and weird jargon from the world's clubhouses and fairways. Adolf Hitler, Airmail, Amen Corner, Army Golf ... Bandit, Brassie, Brazilian, Breakfast Ball ... Ferret, Flub, Flusher, Fried Egg ... Rabbit, Rickshaw, Ryanair, Rushdie ... Waggle, Whiff, Wise (Dennis), Wormburner... this exquisitely designed book contains over 400 curious and laugh-out-loud words and phrases from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. From St. Andrews to Augusta, Royal St. George's to The Royal Melbourne, Sunningdale to Sun City, Pebble Beach to Pine Valley... golfers share the same funny language, united in humour and exasperation by the same challenges, hazards, obstacles and duff errors. This densely packed volume of hilarious terms is essential reading for every golf enthusiast and clubhouse bore ever to have found themselves on a Claggy Lie on a Goat Track, pulled out the Hand Wedge deep in the Cabbage or smashed a Ferret out of the Kitty Litter, the perfect gift from golf widows and widowers around the globe. Sample Entries:Captain Kirk - Wild shot, going where no shot has gonebeforeCuban - Ball just short of the hole that neededanother revolution to get in. See Corbyn, JeremyLaurel & Hardy - Fat shot followed by a thin one, or vice-versaMouth Wedge - A gobby golfer who talks too much and bugshell out of his playing partnersSalman Rushdie - A difficult readSon-in-law - Of a shot that you weren't really hopingfor, but it will just about do.