Loopers: A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey

Loopers: A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey

by John Dunn
Loopers: A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey

Loopers: A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey

by John Dunn

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Overview

John Dunn never expected that his summer job as a caddie at the local course in Connecticut might turn into something more. The lifers who plied the loops were an ensemble of misfits and degenerates who made the caddie yard look more like a gambling hall than a country club. But Dunn came of age in those yards and on those courses, and the magnetism of the game and the lifestyle proved irresistible. One adventure after another kept him coming back summer after summer, until he found himself migrating with the seasons, looping at some of the most exquisite and exclusive golf locations in the world. Dunn crisscrossed the country on his own big loop, working inside the privet hedges while camping on the mountains, following the back roads and stumbling across unexpected moments of profound natural beauty, and embracing the freedom of what he calls the last vagabond existence in America, all while trying to decide whether to quit the loop and get a real job. Maybe next season...


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780770437190
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/14/2013
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

JOHN DUNN is a writer whose work has appeared in a number of magazines, including The Golfer and Travel + Leisure Golf. For twenty years he worked as a caddy at golf courses around the world. His research for this book was collected over the years on courses and beaches and in bars all across the country and abroad.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

1 First Tee 1

2 A Real Yard 18

3 Coattails 39

4 Shoulder Seasons 61

5 Southern Bell 83

6 The Turn 106

7 Lifer 129

8 Golf Bums 157

9 Caddie Heaven 176

10 Links 206

11 Masters 235

12 Home 262

Acknowledgments 277

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