Golf Books #292 (How to Win at Golf Without Playing Well)

Here at last is a guide to winning at golf that tells you how to dominate your opponents — not by out-playing them, but by out-thinking them. Golf is so complex and demanding a game, so fickle and perverse, that even its masters never really master it.

But, Jon Winokur assures us in this entertaining and eminently practical manual, if you can’t play golf consistently well, you can at least win consistently. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Winokur provides various tried and true gamesmanship techniques with which to gain the advantage, from the most subtle psychological warfare to the carefully stifled sneeze.

Filled with wry humor, peppered with tips, quotes, and anecdotes from golf’s greats, and illustrated throughout, this book is indispensable for anyone who would win at golf without actually playing well.

Publication date: May 2, 2000 (source) 

About the Author

Jon Winokur is the author of two dozen nonfiction books, including The Portable Curmudgeon (NAL, 1987) and its four sequels; Zen to Go (NAL, 1988 and Sasquatch, 2005); Advice to Writers (Pantheon, 1999); The Big Book of Irony (St. Martin’s, 2007) and the critically acclaimed New York Times National Bestsellers The Garner Files: A Memoir, co-authored with James Garner (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and But Enough About Me: A Memoir, co-authored with Burt Reynolds (Putnam, 2015). Winokur maintains the popular AdviceToWriters.com and @AdviceToWriters Twitter feed. He lives in Los Angeles.