Description

Author/Contributor(s):	Maxwell, Jessica
Publisher:	Bantam
Date:	2/27/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Adventure writer Jessica Maxwell loves a challenge and decided to tackle golf theway she had tackled skiing and fly-fishing, two demanding sports she took up in herearly thirties after a life as a confirmed “non-jockette.”Surely golf couldn’tbe that much more difficult?could it?

In this irreverent memoir we have a front-rowseat as Jessica struggles to learn golf’s etiquette, traditions, and complex rules—from her first comical attempts to coax practice balls out of a golf ball machine,to just hitting the damn ball, to acquiring her own set of Nancy Lopez clubs!

Among her coaches are Peter Croker, a revolutionary Australian teaching pro, CindySwift Jones, his partner and putting guru, and Al Mundle, the Harvey Penick of theNorthwest, as well as seventy-eight-year-old American women’s golf legend Peggy KirkBell and the queen of golf herself, Nancy Lopez.

A willful celebration of whatone golf coach called “the atrocious first year,”
Driving Myself Crazy is an oftenhilarious, always inspiring tale of one woman’s obsession with proving to herselfthat golf—played right—is a beautiful game … at least for that moment.