Rub of the Green

About this book

Hailed by bestselling author Walker Percy as "brilliant and highly original " this funny touching and very moving novel by the author of The Soul of Golf chronicles one mans glorious victories and bitter defeats in the most challenging sport of all: life. The son of a devoutly golf-hating dad Ted Kendall comes to embrace the sport as a way to soothe his grief after his mothers death. Then his knack with a club lands him a scholarship to Ohio State--and soon hes driving and putting his way through the electrifying and glamorous world of the PGA tour. The grass is greener and life is good until a love triangle on the links goes bad and Ted trades his bag of irons for the iron bars of a jail in the deeper than Deep South. With two years to kill alongside a motley crew of fellow misfit inmates Ted turns once more to the gospel of golf--and finds his own odd brand of salvation. From the Trade Paperback edition.