John Updike wrote about the lure of golf for five decades, from the first time he teed off at the age of twenty-five until his final rounds at the age of seventy-six. Golf Dreams collects the most memorable of his golf pieces, high-spirited evidence of his learning, playing, and living for the game. The camaraderie of golf, the perils of its present boom, how to relate to caddies, and how to manage short putts are among the topics he addresses, sometimes in lyrical essays, sometimes in light verse, sometimes in wickedly comic fiction. All thirty pieces have the lilt of a love song, and the crispness of a firm chip stiff to the pin.
- ISBN10 0517196905
- ISBN13 9780517196908
- Publish Date 25 November 1997 (first published 20 August 1996)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Random House Value Publications
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Language English