Fore! Play The Last American Male Takes up Golf

Why does North America love golf? Is it the beautiful scenery? The languid pace? The stylish slacks? Puzzled by these pressing questions, Bill Geist, who had never picked up a club before, sets off determined to learn the game and to uncover what accounts for North Americas overwhelming infatuation with this royal and ancient gentlemanly sport. Geist goes through the embarrassing rites of passage for all golfersbuying clubs and equipment, joining a country club, purchasing a wardrobe, and of course, taking golf lessonsall observed with the same off-beat humor that make Little League Confidential a national bestseller. Geists unique approach to the world of golf provided uproarious insight into the nuances of the game that will ring true with any golf lover.

Bill Geist is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including City Slickers, Little League Confidential, The Big Five-Oh, Fore! Play!, and Way Off the Road. Geist has won numerous Emmys and in 2011 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the hundreds of "singular, informative, entertaining" pieces he has done since joining CBS in 1987. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service as a combat photographer in Vietnam in 1969. In 2018 he retired from CBS having battled Parkinson's disease for twenty-five years. Geist lives in Riverside, Connecticut, with his wife, Jody. They have two children, Willie and Libby, and four grandchildren.