So Help Me Golf by Rick Reilly

SO HELP ME GOLF by Rick Reilly is subtitled Why We Love the Game; Reilly, bestselling author and former National Sportswriter of the Year, provides plenty of reasons. In this collection, he shares anecdotes about his own family, particularly his alcoholic golfing father, as well as insights from professional golfers. One of those describes Lucas Glover’s battles with the yips, causing him to putt short ones with his eyes closed: “I haven’t hit a short putt on tour with my eyes open in four or five years. Nobody ever seems to notice.” Reilly later describes Phil Mickelson as “always as open as a brand-new Safeway” and “easily the most fascinating athlete I’ve ever covered” and then praises Mickelson’s natural curiosity and breadth of knowledge, including how to make pavlovas for dessert. There’s another section filled with factoids about “the Greatest Player Who Ever Lived,” JackNicklaus, (“One word with a capital N in it. Like there was only one way to say the name of somebody this cool.”).  SO HELP ME GOLF will make an entertaining read for the golfers and sports enthusiasts in your life.  Booklist describes Reilly’s latest as a “delightful recap of a life spent on and around golf courses” and gives it a starred review. Enjoy!!