Note: this contest is now closed. A winner will be selected and notified via e-mail, and an announcement will be made on or before May 31, 2010. Thanks for all the great entries!
This is day 3 of the Big May Golf Book Giveaway. Let’s keep this party rolling!
Today’s book is Bad Lies: A Field Guide to Lost Balls, Missing Links, and Other Golf Mishaps, by Charles Lindsay. Published by Hachette Book Group, this book would make an excellent gift and a great coffee table book.
Here’s some information from the publisher:
In Bad Lies, golf’s wittiest observer, photographer Charles Lindsay, celebrates the hazards and pitfalls of the game. Lindsay stakes out the diabolic border territories that encroach on golf courses–moon-crater bunkers, waist-high fescue grass, murky lake bottoms–to capture the unbelievable my-ball-went-where? moments that make the game so infuriating and so addictive for so many.
This hilarious follow-up to Lindsay’s popular Lost Balls (Little, Brown, 2005) features inspired and gorgeous color photographs, plus larger-than-life pictures of some of the world’s rarest–and oddest–golf balls. Texts include a foreword by outspoken golf commentator Gary McCord, definitions of the game’s offbeat terminology, and a meditation on the golf ball and the immortal soul.
Bad Lies takes a look at the lighter side of golf. While much of golf photography seeks to examine the splendor and majesty of golf, Bad Lies concentrates more on, well, bad lies, choosing instead to center on the not-so-glorious underbelly of this great game.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for my full review. In the meantime, let’s get down to business.
The Contest
Please note that the contest is only open to residents of the United States and Canada. However, I encourage everyone to feel free to participate in the conversation. Just let me know if you’re not from the United States or Canada so your entry will not be included in the drawing.
To enter for a chance to win this book, tell me about your worst golf-related experience. It could be an awful lie, a terrible round, lost luggage on a golf vacation or anything in between.
Please, though, I’d like to keep it on the light hearted side. Let’s try and stay away from personal tragedies or other stories that will give me a heavy heart.
The contest will remain open for one week. The winner will be chosen by random drawing. Be sure to tune in for the rest of the contests this week. Winners will not be disqualified from winning the other contests so be sure to get your entries in for all of them.
Please review the comment policy before entering. Any entries that violate the comment policy will be discarded.
Winners will be notified via e-mail, so please be sure to leave a valid e-mail address with your entries. I will also publish a summary post at the conclusion of all four contests. The book will be shipped to the winner directly from Hachette Book Group. No P.O. boxes, please.
Good luck! I’m looking forward to reading all your entries.
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Be sure to enter the other contests this week:
Big May Golf Book Giveaway, Day 1 – Golf Courses of the World: 365 Days
Big May Golf Book Giveaway, Day 2 – GOLF Magazine Private Lessons
Big May Golf Book Giveaway, Day 4 – Moment of Glory
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My worst golf experience so far is losing a club that my Grandfather gave me a few years before he passed away. He had given me one of his favorite putters and when I moved to a new house several years ago it came up missing. I have no idea where it could have gone to and searched for months to find it. It was an old solid wood putter that was invaluable to me simply because he was the one that give it to me….
Sorry to hear that, Dylan. Hopefully one day you’ll find yourself looking through some old stuff and there it’ll be.
My first golf game was pretty hilarious. There were times I missed the ball and then some.
would have to be playing with people I hated in the heat of summer in South Dakota upwind from a pork processing plant!
The worst golf experience I had was playing in San Diego on vacation and it was on the ocean and raining so hard that you couldn’t see. I dislike playing in bad weather a whole lot.
Nothing big here except for lost balls…but the next time I usually find more balls than I use so it all comes out in the wash.
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