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Maxwell, Jessica

 
9780553107937: Driving Myself Crazy: Misadventures of a Novice Golfer

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Offers a memoir of the author's golfing education, tracing her emotional progress, misadventures, coaches, and ultimate success as she works on becoming a tribute to the sport.

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Jessica Maxwell, formerly a columnist for Audubon magazine, writes the "Great Outdoors" column for Millionaire magazine and publishes regularly for <i>Esquire, Forbes, and Travel and Leisure.</i> She is the author of <b>I Don't Know Why I Swallowed the Fly</b> and <b>Femme d'Adventure:  Travel Tales from Inner Montana to Outer Mongolia</b>. She lives on Oregon's McKenzie River.

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quot; exclaimed Jessica Maxwell's friend Rande. "I thought golf was for Republicans...and dorks!"<br><br>Adventure writer Jessica Maxwell is neither, but she is a woman--and even today golf is primarily a sport for men. In fact, according to an unverifiable legend, the very name of the game comes from the words "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden." But Jessica loves a challenge, and when she decided to invade this male-dominated territory, she plunged in headfirst, the same way she learned how to ski and fly fish--two very demanding sports she took up in her early thirties after a life as a confirmed "non-jockette." Surely golf couldn't be that much more difficult...could it?<br><br>Breezy and offbeat, <b>Driving Myself Crazy</b> is Jessica's first-person account of her golfing education--the teachers, the theories, the mistakes and misadventures, and the confidence she feels once her game begins to improve. <br><br>In this irreverent memo

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9780553379907: Driving Myself Crazy: Misadventures of a Novice Golfer

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ISBN 10:  0553379909 ISBN 13:  9780553379907
Editorial: Bantam, 2001
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