OUR
REGULAR GAME NO. 21
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The secret
journal from Bragg’s Point that Bobby Jones kept revealed incredible
secrets. Based on what
Charley Hunter has shown me, I can say with confidence that they strip
away the mysteries that make golf such a difficult game for all of us,
while it’s mere child’s play for golf’s great champions.
Although I would like to publish Mr. Jones’s secret journal
immediately and in its entirety, Charley has convinced me that it would be
unwise to do so. He says that
revealing the contents of this remarkable book all at once would shake the
game to its very foundations, and based on what I’ve seen, I have to
admit he’s right.
So Charley and I have decided to open Mr. Jones’s secret journal
a little at a time rather than all at once.
In this way, we can all digest the super secrets to success in golf
gradually, chewing on each delicious morsel of wisdom until we exhaust its
full flavor before moving on to the next.
It’s better that way; getting such life-changing information in
one dose would only overwhelm our senses.
In an early part of the journal, Jones shared the first of his
special secrets for success. It’s
been a little hard for Charley and me to decipher, because Jones referred
to such things as mashies, niblicks, cleeks, and spoons.
These are apparently kitchen utensils, and the best we can figure
is that Jones thought that home cooking was essential to championship
play.
The more we thought about it, the more sense it made.
After all, Charley and I eat out a lot, and we’ve never seen
Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, or Tiger Woods at any of the places we eat,
so they must be staying home for dinner.
You’d think those guys would want to “super size” their meals
once in a while, wouldn’t you?
So there you have it. Eat
at home more, and according to Jones’s journal you’re on your way to
qualifying for the U.S. Open. Of
course, you may be wondering just what you’re supposed to cook in
your niblick, whatever that is. We
think the term “mashie” is an important clue.
We believe that this was Jones’s code for mashed potatoes.
When you think about it, that makes sense, too.
Mashing the potatoes builds up your forearms, enabling you to
generate more clubhead speed and increase the distance of your tee shots,
just like Tiger.
That’s enough for now. You’ve
just been given the first of Bobby Jones’s secrets to great golf. Alert your friends so that they won’t miss any more of
this. We’re not going to
repeat this stuff, so they’d better get it the first time.
About the Author
J. Michael Veron is the acclaimed author of The
Greatest Player Who Never Lived and The
Greatest Course That Never Was. His third novel, tentatively titled
The Caddie, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2002.
Mike's work has earned him the title of "master
of fiction" from USA Today, and Travel and Leisure Golf Magazine
has called him "The
John Grisham of Golf." In addition, the New York Times hailed The
Greatest Player as "Golf's
Literary Rookie of the Year," and the Seattle Times ranked The
Greatest Player as second on its all-time list of "Five Wonderful
Golf Books." At one time,
The Greatest Player and The
Greatest Course were the first and third best-selling sports fiction
in the country.
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for more information on Mike and his work.
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