Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia

Oct 9, 2024 4:23 PM

Author:Tom Cox

As a teenager, Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. For four years he devoted himself to the game of golf. And then, one day, he walked away. But as he got older, those dreams kept coming back. Perhaps it was turning thirty, perhaps it was having his first hole in one, but he decided it was time to start again, to live the dream for real.

So he switched off his computer, grabbed his checked trouser and headed for the golf course. To turn pro. The Open Championship was only five of the best rounds of his life away, and given a few warm-up tournaments, how hard could it be?

Reviews

Caused me to laugh out loud

—— The Times

Cox may not have much to boast about in the field of sporting achievement, but he has what many of his rivals palpably lack: an inner landscape, an imagination. These are terrible handicaps for a golfer, but pretty darn useful in a writer... A very, very good book

—— Daily Telegraph

I'm not a golf fan myself, but Cox is such an enthusiastic writer that he's made me see the sport in a new light

—— Mail on Sunday

Tom Cox writes brilliantly about golf. He knows the game inside-out: its potent allure, its absurd comedy and its mind-bending frustrations. If they had a handicap-system for golf-writers Tom Cox would be scratch

—— William Boyd

One of the funniest books on golf ever written

—— Metro

Razor-sharp insight and buckets of humour - I can't recommend this book highly enough

—— Mark James

A gorgeously comical book

—— Week

At last the work of genius that will finally bring the long-suffering cricket addict a measure of understanding in the world. A wonderful and very funny book

—— Sir Tim Rice

You read the wonderful Michael Simkins with a mixture of horror and delight

—— David Hare

One of Britain's funniest writers

—— Daily Mail

Extremely funny - whether or not you know your bails from your balls

—— Daily Mail

One of the funniest sporting memoirs ever

—— Sunday Telegraph

Almost painfully funny

—— Observer

An all-too honest account of a playing career that just got better and better, despite threatening to go off the rails.

—— Sunday Mercury

An extraordinary book.

—— Irish Independent

Harrowing and brutally honest...a gripping story.

—— Derby Evening Telegraph

Brutally honest.

—— The Irish Post

Less a football autobiography, more repentant confessional.

—— Kevin Hughes , FreeSport

stunning

—— FourFourTwo

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