Toonamint of Champions: How LaJuanita Mumps Got to Join Augusta National Golf Club Real Easy - Hardcover

Sentell, Todd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1601640056 ISBN 13: 9781601640055

Publisher: Kunati Inc., 2007

Synopsis

An off-the-wall story with larger-than-life characters, this novel discusses the desire to gain membership to an exclusive golf club and the realization that the grass just may be greener on the other side. Waymon Poodle, a wall-eyed, squawky-voiced Bible thumper, obsesses about teeing off at the Augusta National Golf Club. Waymon’s quest to be granted access into the most famous golf club in the world sets him on an irreverent and hilarious course of enlightenment and adventure—from a loud-mouthed girlfriend, LaJuanita Mumps, who also wants into the exclusive club, to the affluent and influential buffoons who are already members. With comic vitality and southern spice, this hip and fresh novel will delight golf enthusiasts and fans of humor alike.

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About the Author

Todd Sentell is a columnist for Golf Georgia and the author of more than 60 articles. His work has been featured in Atlanta magazine, Fairways + Greens, and Golf Illustrated. He lives in Alpharetta, Georgia.

From Booklist

Golf inspires its share of mystical celebration, but it also provides fertile ground for low comedy (take Caddyshack, or the novels of Dan Jenkins and Rick Reilly). When it comes to over-the-top slapstick, though, golf journalist Sentell makes Jenkins and Reilly look like somber social realists out of the Emile Zola school. Summarizing the plot of a farce filled with fart jokes is treacherous, but here goes: Waymon Poodle, the best damn bank teller in Mullet Luv, Georgia, dreams of playing a round of golf at Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters. Sentell's novel purports to tell us how Waymon tries to achieve his goal, but its real purpose is to expose "what goes on behind the gates of ootsie-tootsie private clubs." Are we really expected to believe that the chairman of the ootsiest-tootsiest private club in America goes by the nickname of Huge Pecker? Well, not exactly, but thousands of otherwise sensible, workaday golf fans will jump at the chance to pretend it's so. There's no explaining why golf slapstick is funny, just as there's no reason why anybody should like licorice ice cream. Bill Ott
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Edition details

• Publisher: Kunati Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1601640056
• ISBN 13: 9781601640055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192