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Missing Links

por Rick Reilly

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When a group of middle-class buddies obsessed with golf set up a bet to see who can finagle their way onto the nearby private course, their friendship is tested in ways they had never expected in this humorous novel from Rick Reilly, one of America's most popular sportswriters. Missing Links is the story of four middle class buddies who live outside of Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to these municipal links lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston and a major needle in their collective sides. Frustrated by the Mayflower's finely manicured greens and snooty members, three of Ponky's finest and most courageous--Two Down, Dannie, and Stick--set up a bet: $1,000.00 apiece, and the first man to somehow finagle his way on to the Mayflower course takes all. Lying, cheating, and forgery are encouraged, to put it mildly, and with the constant heckling and rare aid of Chunkin' Charlie, Hoover, and Bluto--a few more of Ponky's elite--the games begin. One of the three will eventually play the Mayflower's course, but their friendships--and everything else--will change as various truths unravel and the old Ponky starts looking like the home they never should have left.… (mais)

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Missing Links by Rick Reilly is a phenomenal golf book. This book is a page turner and will keep you flipping the page. Rick Reilly does a great job ending a chapter while setting up the following chapter causing the reader to want to flip the page. This is not one of your typical golf books. This book is not completely focused on golf it incorporates romance gambling long time friendships and complicated family relationships. The book opens up describing what is supposed to be the “worst golf course in America” Ponky. Reilly uses a large variety of of imagery to describe this golf course in such detail that you feel like you have played it every day of your life. He then goes on to introduce you to a mishap of misfits that he plays golf, gets drunk and gables with almost every day of his life. It is through their drunken gambling that cause a fight on the 16th hole. Hoover rips a hole in the 12 foot hedge separating the worst golf course in America to the finest golf course in America. It is from this fight that the ultimate bet derives. The group of misfits from Ponky make and bet to see who could get into to nicest most private golf course in America and play 18 holes. Throughout the bet friendships, character and loyalty are tested only to reveal a shocking outcome.

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You don't need to know your bogeys from your birdies to find at least three laughs per page in this novel by Rick Reilly, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. ''Missing Links'' follows the weekend miseries of a band of golf buddies at the Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli. Rated ''possibly the worst golf course in America'' by Golf Illustrated...

adicionada por librookian | editarNew York Times, Bill Kent (Aug 4, 1996)

A loving, knowledgeable, laugh-out-loud portrait of the Hardest Sport There Is, as practiced by the blue-collar rakes who compose golf's most devoted fans.

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Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli aka Ponky

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To Ziggy, Socks, Bluto
and the rest of the addicts
at Ponkapogue Golf Club
Canton, Mass.,
where golf is way too much fun.

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Other than wrecking my best friendships, ruining the happiest time of my life and causing two perfectly good women to give me a free drop (no closer to the hole), The Bet was just a helluva good idea.

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Based on Reilly's article "The Missing Links" from the June 13, 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated. (page 70)

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When a group of middle-class buddies obsessed with golf set up a bet to see who can finagle their way onto the nearby private course, their friendship is tested in ways they had never expected in this humorous novel from Rick Reilly, one of America's most popular sportswriters. Missing Links is the story of four middle class buddies who live outside of Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to these municipal links lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston and a major needle in their collective sides. Frustrated by the Mayflower's finely manicured greens and snooty members, three of Ponky's finest and most courageous--Two Down, Dannie, and Stick--set up a bet: $1,000.00 apiece, and the first man to somehow finagle his way on to the Mayflower course takes all. Lying, cheating, and forgery are encouraged, to put it mildly, and with the constant heckling and rare aid of Chunkin' Charlie, Hoover, and Bluto--a few more of Ponky's elite--the games begin. One of the three will eventually play the Mayflower's course, but their friendships--and everything else--will change as various truths unravel and the old Ponky starts looking like the home they never should have left.

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