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GOLF IS
MADNESS
By TED BARNETT
Illustrations by Marcus Hamilton
Ted Barnett for a number of years
delighted readers of Golf Digest with
accounts of such unusual golfers as
Slamming Suki Sukiyuki, the ambi-
dextrous champion, and Pieter Van
Schuyler, the gorilla who could drive a
golf ball 400 yards. During this time
he established himself as one of the
game’s outstanding humorists.
Now, after a period of pursuing
other interests, Barnett is back at the
typewriter, turning out more stories
that combine wry humor with a
skeptical approach to life.
In this volume, the reader will meet
Suki and Pieter, as well as such new-
comers as:
• Harold Ribbon, a non-athletic
man who figures out the secret of the
golf swing and becomes the greatest
champion of all-time, until. …
• The Foursome, a raffish quartet of
public course players whose efforts to
find an uncrowded place to play take
on the strategical overtones of a
military campaign. Finally, one of
them comes up with the ultimate
method of solving the problem.
• The Golf God, a demanding diety
who confers great skills upon those
touring pros who are willing to pay
his price.
• The Sporting People, a macabre
group for whom the game is the thing
-as long as you win.
• Herbert Huppman. Did he really
shoot the lowest score in history?
• Bernardi, Reber and Wilmarth,
for whom the ultimate pleasure in golf
is not so much in winning, but in what
they win.
These and other characters help
make up a book that, once and for all,
confirms the author as the master of
the humorous golf story with a twist.
Ted Barnett is now an advertising
executive in Chicago, but he also finds
time to serve as president of a gold
mining company, write everything from
short stories to television commercials,
and fight a long and slow delaying
action against an increasing golf
handicap.
He says he originally entered jour-
nalism “because I thought I’d look .
good in a trench coat working between
London and Paris.”
Marcus Hamilton has lent his brush to
illustrations that have appeared in
many of the top national magazines,
among them Cosmopolitan, Saturday
Evening Post, Good Housekeeping,
Changing Times, Golf Digest, Tennis,
Hockey, and many others.
He has free-lanced for the past five
years after having worked at different
art studios, a television station and a
printing company. A man of diverse
interests, he plays the guitar, used to
sing semi-professionally and now is
taking up tennis.
At age 34, Hamilton works out of a
small studio in the woods of Mint Hill,
N.C., outside of Charlotte, with the
occasional assistance of his wife Kaye
and two children, Lyn and Devin.
128 pages
Hardcover
In good preloved condition