A deluxe gift book for golf lovers!Over the past decade, golf's master storyteller has shared with golf fans heartwarming off-the-cuff stories that truly capture the essence of America's most popular sport. He brought together living legends, past champions, and current top-of-the-leader-board stars in eight entertaining volumes of the greatest true golf stories ever told. Now Wade compiles the best of these stories in Talking on Tour, a handsome volume that golfers everywhere will wan for their own sports library.Here is a sampling of the humorous anecdotes in Talking on Tour :POLITICIANSReporters asked former First Lady Barbara Bush for her reaction to the news that her husband was going to play in the Bob Hope Desert Classic along with President Clinton and former President Gerald Ford."Isn't there already enough violence and bloodshed on television?", she said.CADDIESA group of wealthy Arab businessmen wearing traditional headdresses arrived at the Old Course at St. Andrews for a round of golf. At the completion of his round, one handed his caddie, an elderly Scotsman, a generous tip."Thanks very much, your Excellency," said the caddie. "And I hope your head feels better."AMY ALCOTTAmy Alcott is one of the great characters in women's golf�� -- or in all of golf, for that matter. Not the least of her attributes is a wicked sense of humor and a great sense of comic timing. One day she called a writer friend to tell him that she'd just been named the top female Jewish athlete in the United States."Congratulations, Amy," the friend said. "That's great. Who'd you beat?""Some fencer from Brandeis," she deadpanned.

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Don Wade, a former senior editor at Golf Digest, is the author of the eight bestselling volumes in the "And Then Jack Said to Arnie . . ." series. Covering professional golf since the 1970s, he has worked as a feature reporter for CBS Sports and NBC Sports and as a golf analyst for the USA Network. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Boston Globe. He has written books with Ken Venturi, Sam Snead, Amy Alcott, and Nancy Lopez. He is vice president and editorial director of Sportsoftgolf.com, the website of the Golf Society of the United States, where his column "Wade's Web Weekly" appears. He is also editor of Player, the Golf Society's monthly magazine.

Illustrator Paul Szep, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe, has published thirteen collections of cartoons.

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