Le doyen du club-house
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782844121684 (2844121683)
Publish date: June 8th 2003
Publisher: Editions Gallimard
Pages no: 214
Edition language: French
Series: Golf Stories (#1)
What a charming little collection of golf-related yarns. As I may have mentioned, although I don't play at all I'm a moderately fluent speaker of golf. (Thanks be to Wikipedia for the translations for the old fashioned names of clubs that preceded the current, rather prosaic numbering system.) Thi...
These pretend to be golf stories, but they aren't. They're the same old delightful Wodehouse: the right sort of young man is pining for a girl, difficulties ensue, he gets the girl anyway. And there's a lot of golf club paraphernalia lying about, and golf games of great importance in settling the ma...