The Pro: A Golf Novel - Softcover

Shropshire, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312305192 ISBN 13: 9780312305192

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

Synopsis

Del Bonnet, a teaching pro at an obscure Florida golf resort, needs a change and needs it badly. Having crossed an ominous threshold-his fiftieth birthday-Bonnet receives frequent communiques from the AARP people. He gazes into the future and sees the prospect of assisted living growing larger by the day.

Serendipity intervenes. A sales rep working out of his station wagon leaves a handmade driver in Bonnet's modest golf shop. The pro privately auditions the driver with astounding results. Bonnet-celebrated for thirty years as the only touring pour to be arrested on the course during a PGA event-is quickly convinced that he has secured possession of no mere golf club, but a sword of salvation. So armed, he decides to embark on the PGA Seniors Tour.

Thus the formation of a strange triumvirate known as Team Del, consisting of the pro, the golf club that soon becomes dubbed "Big Luther," and a caddie, Doublewide McBride. Bonnet soon learns that the caddie is long on off-the-wall intuitions, short on behavioral graces recommended by Emily Post.

While the misadventures of Team Del might not serve as a tribute to the memories Hagen and Hogan, the events detailed in The Pro stand out as perhaps the most hilarious odyssey in the modern annals of sports fiction.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Shropshire is a longtime journalist who has written for numerous newspapers and magazines such as Sports Illustrated. Author of three nonfiction books including Seasons in Hell, he lives in Dallas, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312305192
• ISBN 13: 9780312305192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272