{"product_id":"112-miles-to-the-pin","title":"112 Miles to the Pin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEscorting the reader through uncharted territory, journalist and author Lennard playfully describes the adventurous side of golf, hoping that fellow golfers will rediscover the joy of a game that \"remains dominated by social convention... marginalizing the people who have the most fire for it.\" As such, he's amassed infectious, inspiring interviews with unorthodox golfers from every continent: cross-country golfer David Ewen improved his game by playing all the way across his homeland of Scotland; the Natural Born Golfers, a group of raffishly dressed German punks, swing at targets from rooftops or boats; and New Zealand's Mackenzie Muster naturist festival features a nude tournament (though socks and shoes are allowed). Lennard rounds out his global survey with an amusing appendix of miscellany: records of the longest hits from land, ocean, and space; tips for tundra and mountain golf; and rules for playing the city (\"from the Shoreditch Urban Open Rulebook\"). Though Lennard's descriptions are deft, readers will long for a photo to illustrate rare hazards like the aftermath of warring hippos or the Arctic skuas, large and aggressive birds who steal balls, mistaking them for penguin eggs; for those and other images, readers will have to turn to Lennard's 2004 book, Extreme Golf, for which this makes a fun, fitting follow-up.\u003cbr\u003eCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuncan Lennard is a writer and a golfer, and the author of the hit book Extreme Golf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sky Horse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46722872213730,"sku":"KH-Books-2025-07-28-SKY-6.282581","price":31.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/71qsv99YKCL._SY522.jpg?v=1759806693","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/112-miles-to-the-pin","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}