MARK TWAIN CALLED IT”a good walk spoiled.” Lee Trevino said it was the most fun he ever had with his clothes on. For duffers and pros alike, golf can be both a delight and a torment―often on the same day, sometimes on the same hole.

How difficult can it be to take a stick and knock a small ball into a hole? In the obsessive examina-tion of that question lie the joys and sorrows of many a dedicated player.(Is obsessive too strong? Just ask any avid golfer's friends or family.)

So it is little wonder that golf has been the sub-ject of numerous cartoons from trom The New Yorker cartoonists, including such luminaries Charles Addams, Roz Chast, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Edward koren, George Price, and William Steig. Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, has culled the decades' best, all exhibiting the focus, the passion―and the frequent absurdity―of the golfer's world. This unforgettable collection contains 100 pages of cartoons, which like a hole in one, will leave you smiling.

 

Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of the New Yorker, founder and president of The Cartoon Bank, and a wonderful cartoonist (with a lousy handicap). He has published collections of his own work and is editor of eight collections of New Yorker cartoons.

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