Poor Tom Robbins. He can’t help himself. He just runs on and on.
“My antipathy for golf is no doubt due to a certain prejudice against the men most often associated with amateur golfing: county-club types who use the links to make contacts, seal deals, swap information, in in general advance business careers without seeming to be conducting business; and, more recently in our social history, the kind of blue-collar round-the-clock sports nuts who consider the Super Bowl the crowning achievement of Western Civilization, and for whom golf, unlike hockey, say, or football, is an opportunity to participate personally in a sport in which “real athletes” also perform.”
I got about 1/3 through the book before I realized it tired me out to keep reading.
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