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| Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Cox
Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
Category: Book
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 107210
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0224078607
EAN: 9780224078603
ASIN: 0224078607
Publication Date: September 20, 2007
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 One of our finest young purveyors of witty prose November 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't played golf in years, but I write lots of golf speeches, which means I need to get some ideas and a feel for the game. I took a risk on Tom Cox, and I was handsomely rewarded. His prose is just sublime, like Guy Browning or Marcus Berkmann, he rolls out beautiful self-deprecatory sentences, one after the other, that keep you giggling for hours. Pity he couldn't play golf like that.
What I really liked about it was the rather melancholy wisdom. To play at the highest level you need to be very narrowly focused, and take everything incredibly seriously. My childhood dream was to be a politician, but it's the same thing in that field, the ones who are heading to the top, limit and constrain themselves in ways that I find perverse and sad. Tom Cox is a 'character' and humorous English prose is richer for it, even if golf isn't.
Mr A. Allwright. Philistine. My advice - A MUST BUY. September 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mr Allwright seems to have missed the point in its entirety (see his (weak) amazon review). He is clearly a (golfing, humour, general) philistine.
Managed to nick this literature from husband who was annoying me by laughing every page, per night, up until Chapter 3. So I swooped. It was mine.
I laughed until it was completed, and like the best books, looked forward to getting to bed to savour the next unfolding.
Cox depicts the soul destroying nature of life on (Europro.........if you say it quick enough it sounds like European.....) Tour heart wrenchingly and acutely. Cox is self depreciatingly honest throughout. His conclusions are appropriately respectful, but endearingly reassuring that real life exists above and beyond life on tour....... if that's what you want....
I think why this book appeals is rooted in the fact the challenges, magic, frustrations and joy of golf are the same whether you are Tiger Woods or Jim Bob Novice Amateur. This is why the book is so clever. It tells a story of golf at a very specific level, but anyone at all who has experienced any level of the game will empathise with the tale it tells - with all the up and downs along the way (no pun intended).
So buy it, and ignore Mr Allwright who has clearly had a personality and soul bypass.
MUST READ FOR ALL GOLF FANATICS August 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great, great read. A real pleasant change from autobiographies and coaching manuals. Tom's year as a professional is a real emotional rollercoaster and the caracters in Tom's book relate to people in golf clubs the length and bredth of the UK. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I'm glad somebody did it for me, so I didn't have to! February 4, 2008
A hugely enjoying and highly entertaining read from start to finish.
Once Tom got my interest in the opening pages of the book, my interest only intensified as I got further and further into the book. The anticipation of seeing what new mini disaster he could get himself into, coupled with the slight glimmer of hope that there would be some success for him towards the end, just meant that I couldn't put the thing down. Quite literally read in a day!
There is some success for him in the end, although not quite in the way you expect. I guess ultimately the real success to come from Tom's experiment is this brilliantly witty and self deprecating warts and all account of his trials and tribulations throughout his year of swinging with the big boys.
This comes highly recommended.
Great Golfing read! February 3, 2008
A very funny and honest account of another bite at the pro circuit cherry! If you like golf, or even if you don't you will enjoy this book. The ups and downs of the human emotions are all here and it was a pleasure to read. A must for the bedside table or plane or swimming pool!
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