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GARY is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely. PAULINE is wondering how she ended up living in an ugly little house, driving a second-hand car and making a living dressing up as Tinkerbell. She's planning to leave Gary for a self-made carpet millionaire. FINDLAY, the Carpet King of Scotland, wants to trade in his obese wife for a younger model. But if he goes for a divorce she'll take him to the cleaners. If only there was some way she could be made to disappear... LEE, Gary's luckless brother, has botched one too many drug deals. Local crime overlord Ranta Campbell gives him one more job - one last chance to get it right. Lee's done some bad things - but murder? When Gary gets smashed on the head by a golf ball and miraculously develops an absolutely perfect swing, everyone finds their fates rest on the final day of the Open Championship...
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A genuinely funny book about golf with huge laugh-out-loud moments. There are side pilots of drug deals, gangsters, affairs, tourettes, and family relationships, but they don't detract from the golf. Some fantastic descriptions of the kind of madness that envelops people who are addicted to a sport, especially one that seems so incredibly random and difficult to be good at as golf.
I give it five “smoke my big fat **ing dobbers” out of five.