Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Shanks for Nothing

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly’s beloved bestselling golf novel Missing Links

Life is going pretty well for Raymond “Stick” Hart. He’s happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop. Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No. 1 and under the billboard on No. 8, the fried-egg sandwiches are terrible but cheap, and his pal Two Down is always up for a sucker bet.
Then, one disaster of a day, Stick’s world does a ten-car pile-up. The cheapskate bastard owner of Ponky announces he’s retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes Stick’s hated father.
Who promptly drops dead.
Just before Stick’s pal Two Down loses $12,000 to a golf hustler who turns out to be funded by the Russian mob.
Which is about the same time that Hoover, Ponky’s worst golfer and the owner of an impressive array of useless golf gadgets purchased with his wife’s money, learns she’ll cut him off if he doesn’t break a hundred in one month.
Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick’s been stepping out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and he’s soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse.
Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems.
He’ll qualify for the British Open.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Anchor

Release: May 08, 2007

ISBN: 0767906640

ISBN 13: 9780767906647

Shanks for Nothing

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly’s beloved bestselling golf novel Missing Links

Life is going pretty well for Raymond “Stick” Hart. He’s happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop. Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No. 1 and under the billboard on No. 8, the fried-egg sandwiches are terrible but cheap, and his pal Two Down is always up for a sucker bet.
Then, one disaster of a day, Stick’s world does a ten-car pile-up. The cheapskate bastard owner of Ponky announces he’s retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes Stick’s hated father.
Who promptly drops dead.
Just before Stick’s pal Two Down loses $12,000 to a golf hustler who turns out to be funded by the Russian mob.
Which is about the same time that Hoover, Ponky’s worst golfer and the owner of an impressive array of useless golf gadgets purchased with his wife’s money, learns she’ll cut him off if he doesn’t break a hundred in one month.
Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick’s been stepping out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and he’s soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse.
Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems.
He’ll qualify for the British Open.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Anchor

Release: May 08, 2007

ISBN: 0767906640

ISBN 13: 9780767906647

More books from Rick Reilly

Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Missing Links

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Life of Reilly: The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Tiger, Meet My Sister…: And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition

3.5/5 ( ratings)

So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Best American Sports Writing 2002

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Sports Illustrated: Knockouts: Five Decades of Swimsuit Photography

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Best of The Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The College Football Problem: How Money and Power Corrupted the Game and How We Can Fix That

How Money and Power Corrupt College Football: How It Started, Why It Continues, and How to Fix It

Classic Golf

The Best of The Show: A Classic Collection of Wit and Wisdom

Missing Links Paperback May 19, 1997

Sports Illustrated - January 8, 1996 (Volume 84, Number 1)

How to Cheat in Sports: Professional Tricks Exposed!

September 7 1987 Sports Illustrated - Surf's Up!

Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkely

So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game

Rate this book!

Write a review?