Customer Reviews
Nice Jumper? Great Read! - By: Mr. M. R. Wassell, 05 Nov 2008 
If you like golf, buy this. If you don't like golf, still buy this because it's not a manual on swing-planes, it's about life & the fun that you can have making up games like Granny on Wheels (you have to read it to understand this!). Definitely recommended!
Quality - By: G. M. Herron, 04 Apr 2008 This is a quality book, whether you like golf or not. Well written, easy to read & repeatedly funny. The kind of book you will read again & again.
A time of gifts - By: Carl Spackler, 15 Feb 2005 Tom Cox made me uncomfortable. I read this a long way from home, in my thirty second year, & alll I could do was think back to my teenage years as an aspiring Seve stuffing half eaten hamburgers in Howard Clarke's golf bag. This book describes to a tee (sorry) what it was like to grow up, not just with an aching desire to be good at golf but also what it is like to be associated with a middle aged man's sport when you're 14, many years before Tiger Woods made golf more fashionable.
Cox hits the jackpot here, I didn't want to like this book before I read it, as I imagined it would be something that didn't reflect my own experience. However, it infact reflected my teenage years more accurately than any other work of fiction ever has. So from a totallly personal point of view, this book was excellent as it brought back a whole maxfli balllbag full of reminisence.
If you would have rather watched top of the pops than listened to Alliss & Hay in 1986, then this book may not be for you. However, if April means The Masters & you still judge backspin with delight, then purchase this book now, you will not be disappointed.
A MUST READ FOR GOLFERS AND NON-GOLFERS - By: I ALLOTT, 04 Jan 2004 An innovative & fresh book that vividly captures the essence of youth.
Although the background is golf, it will appeal to anyone who has been a teenager (everyone!)
If you ever played golf as a youngster, then this book will bring back vivid memories of alll those sunny days.
The struggle between desire, expectation & reality are wonderfully brought together by the author.
A great treat if you are buying this book for yourself, a great gift for any golfer in your life, or simply anyone who's young at heart!
At last a chronicle of a teenage outdoor type - By: , 28 Oct 2003 Not being particularly interested in golf didn't matter a bit for me as I found Nice Jumper said a lot of the things that I feel are true about being a teenager & not entirely fitting in with your mates. For me it was BMX bikes but I think anyone with memories of being obsessed about something & only later realising you may well have looked a bit of an idiot will find comfort in this book. It made me cringe in recognition & laugh out loud at the same time.
