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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Booklegger
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352
EAN: 9780767917407
ISBN: 0767917405
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: May 04, 2004
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: May 04, 2004
Sales Rank: 11392
Studio: Broadway
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The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf.
Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their games by caddying, even though he had absolutely no idea how to do it. Amazingly, some of the best golfers in the world—including Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Tom Lehman, John Daly, Casey
Martin, and Jill McGill—agreed to let Reilly carry their bags at actual PGA and LPGA Tour events. To round out his portrait of the golfing life, Reilly also caddied at the Masters, persuaded Deepak Chopra and Donald Trump to use him as a caddy, accompanied high-rolling golf hustlers in Las Vegas around the course, and carried the bag for a blind golfer.
In Who’s Your Caddy?, Reilly chronicles his experiences in the same inimitable style that makes his back-page column for Sports Illustrated a must-read for more than twenty million people every week. From his laugh-out-loud portrait of Deepak Chopra decomposing on the green, to his portraits of good ol’ boys who bet $100,000 a round, to his hilarious descriptions of his own ineptitude as a caddy, to his insights into what
makes the greats of golf so great, Reilly combines a wicked wit with an expert’s eye in a most original and entertaining look at golf.
Who’s Your Caddy? is the next best thing to a great round of golf. It is sure to delight low-handicappers, high-handicappers, and everyone in between.
From the Hardcover edition.
Amazon.com Review:
To really know someone, as the saying goes, you must walk a mile in their shoes. But to really understand a golfer, you've got to work as their caddy. Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly managed to get some very intriguing golfers to let him lug their bag and write what he learned both about the game and the folks who play it. Going hole to hole with them let Reilly know a different side of veterans such as John Daly, David Duval, Tom Lehman, and Jack Nicklaus. But Reilly also went beyond the pros to caddy for Deepak Chopra, Donald Trump, professional gambler Dewey Tomko, and Bob Newhart. In some cases, the portraits that emerge fall directly in line with the popular image but at other times it's just the opposite. Daly is sober but has shifted his addiction to massive amounts of Diet Coke, candy, and marriages; Duval is intensely driven during rounds but surprisingly laid back and friendly off the course; Chopra's inner peace is locked in a mortal battle with the inherent frustrations of golf; and Trump manages to be both an egomaniac and a pretty nice fellow. And although he's on assignment to profile his temporary employers, Reilly emerges as an entertaining figure in his own right as he commits numerous faux pas, breaks taboos, infuriates multiple golfers and caddies, accidentally dumps all of Nicklaus's clubs onto the turf in the middle of a round, and discovers that caddying is tougher than it looks. Reilly walks a nice line with the tone of Who's Your Caddy?: it's reverent to the game without becoming a misty-eyed poetic ode, and it's laugh-out-loud funny without being nasty or low brow. And while golf fans will certainly appreciate it, Who's Your Caddy? is an impressive book for fans of biography in general. --John Moe
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Rating:  - Score This One an Eagle
Outstanding look at the whacky, wonderful and seldom thought about behind the scenes life of a caddy on the pro tour.
Rick Reilly at his best--humor, sincerity, and warmth...a splice of life, the good life, the real life.
You will come away with a new and greater appreciation of those who play the greatest game of all, the "loopers" who help them play it, and, in the last chapter, the game itself, why we all love it so.
An excellent book...Don't miss this one!
Rating:  - He phoned this one in
As I finished the book, I realized that it annoyed me that Reilly took up caddying without really trying to learn how to do it. He started at the Masters with no experience and didn't do very well. He didn't seem to improve much . . . even with experience. I thought he showed a fundamental disrespect for his craft, the game and for the golfers he served by taking this approach. Thinking about my reaction, I thought about the responsibility we all have to do our best to serve others when that is our task. I'll try to do it much better after reading this book.
Rating: - Who's Your Caddy - A review
Who's your Caddy? By Rick Reilly - A Review.
Rick Reilly, the long time, highly popular sportswriter from the famous Sports Illustrated magazine, and author of "Missing Links" and "The Life of Reilly" hooks you like a stoutly struck drive off the first tee on a glorious summer's morning, in " Who's your Caddy?" his latest book.
Rather like the famous travel writer Bill Bryson, Rick is honest, normal and down to earth in his description and assessment of himself and regales us constantly with little jokes about all his monster mess-ups while researching for this book. To garner material for "Who's your Caddy?" Rick assumes the persona of a `caddy-for-a-day', to the "great, the near great and the reprobates of golf", getting into the skin of a "looper" (as caddies are known in the land of Mac Burgers and Coke) and thus, getting closer to the `larger than life heroes' of the golf course. Written in a semi hard-boiled, often irreverent and typical American style, Rick manages to infuse each page with a peculiar brand of humour, all his own.
The book moves at a fast pace through the golfing and other celebrity lives we all know about, read about, wonder about and hear about on the leader board and otherwise. Beginning with Grouchy old Tommy Aaron, the 1973 Masters Champion and moving to the humongous hamburger and diet coke swilling, but hugely capable John Daly, the book then picks up a great deal of speed, trumpeting loudly through the equally loud and ostentatious ... Read More
Rating: - The Life of Reilly
For years, I've been hearing that Sports Illustrated magazine features the crispest writing on the newsstand. I don't spend a lot of time watching or tracking sports, so SI wasn't exactly a "must read" for me.
Rick Reilly, it turns out, is one of SI's one of the reasons for the magazine's reputation. He's a terrific writer. Not only that, he's funny. Who's Your Caddy? serves as Reilly's journal as he "loops" for an impressive string of famous people from David Duvall to Bob Newhart on some of the most beautiful golf courses in the world.
The funniest chapter recounts the time Reilly spent with John Daly. You don't have to be a golfer to enjoy this book, but you should probably have a sense of humor.
Rating: - for golfers
This was another gift for my grandson and he hasn't had a chance to read it yet but if it has to do with golf, he'll love it!
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