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Author
Series
Big shots ; 1
Language
English
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"Once golf's fastest rising star, Wells Whitaker's career craters before his eyes, despite the ongoing support of a beautiful redhead who always cheers him on from the sidelines, who he eventually invites to be his new caddy"--
4) Caddyshack
Language
English
Description
Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III, against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smalls plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10-foot putt. Insanity? No. Caddyshack.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high-tech equipment but with skill, finesse, and creativity. And, the greatest hickory player of all time was Walter Hagen, until the day he met a teenage caddie at a country club outside Chicago.
America's first touring golf professional, Hagen made (and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Returning as an honored guest to the exclusive country club where he worked in his youth, Jack Handley remembers the summer of '46 when he caddied for Ben Hogan in the last Chicago Open. Now a respected historian, Jack recounts to the assembled sons and daughters of members he once knew the dramatic match between the mysterious and charismatic Hogan and the young club pro he idealized.
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan is filled with dazzling descriptions...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of this metaphysical fable is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie.
10) Caddyshack
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III -- against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smails plays to win but his nubile niece lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10- foot putt. Insanity? No. Caddyshack."--Container.
11) Train
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Train is an 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname “the Mile Away Man.” Packard’s easy manner hides a proclivity for violence, and he remains an enigma to Train even months later when they are winning...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The moving story of a life in golf as lived by a man who has seen it all. Tom Watson’s lifelong caddy, Bruce Edwards During the 2003 U.S. Open, most eyes were not trained on defending champion Tiger Woods or on Phil Mickelson or Ernie Els. These top golfers and others, even Jim Furyk, who would go on to win the title, all took a backseat to a fifty-three-year-old past champion and his caddy. For most of thirty years, Bruce Edwards has caddied for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hilarious and poignant memoir of a Harvard student who comes of age as a caddie on St. Andrews’s fabled Old Course.
In the middle of Oliver Horovitz’s high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone rang: It was Harvard. He’d been accepted, but he couldn’t start for another year.
A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland—a...
In the middle of Oliver Horovitz’s high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone rang: It was Harvard. He’d been accepted, but he couldn’t start for another year.
A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland—a...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When Don Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don would walk beside him as his caddie. Years later, Jack had developed into a standout college golfer, and Don, at the age of fifty-eight, left the comfort of his Maine home and moved to St. Andrews, Scotland, to learn from the best caddies in the world ... A world away, Jack endured his own arduous...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scared stiff (1953): Fleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up in a spooky Caribbean island inherited by an heiress.
The caddy (1953): Although gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony.
18) Hole in one!
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Caddyshack: Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smalls plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country-club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10-foot putt.
Happy Gilmore: When a hockey player...
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Caddyshack: The story centers around Danny Noonan, who is desperate to win the college scholarship awarded to the best caddy at Bushwood Country Club. Also involved are a millionaire who wants to turn the golf course into a a new property development and a greenskeeper who is about to start World War III--against a gopher.
Happy Gilmore: Although Happy dreams of becoming a professional hockey player, he discovers that his hockey slap shot translates...