The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly's beloved bestselling golf novel "Missing Links" Life is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop. Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No. 1 and under the ...
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The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly's beloved bestselling golf novel "Missing Links" Life is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop. Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No. 1 and under the billboard on No. 8, the fried-egg sandwiches are terrible but cheap, and his pal Two Down is always up for a sucker bet. Then, one disaster of a day, Stick's world does a ten-car pile-up. The cheapskate bastard owner of Ponky announces he's retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes Stick's hated father. Who promptly drops dead. Just before Stick's pal Two Down loses $12,000 to a golf hustler who turns out to be funded by the Russian mob. Which is about the same time that Hoover, Ponky's worst golfer and the owner of an impressive array of useless golf gadgets purchased with his wife's money, learns she'll cut him off if he doesn't break a hundred in one month. Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick's been stepping out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and he's soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse. Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems. He'll qualify for the British Open.
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The book is a sequel to his seminal hysterical golf novel Missing Links. I first ?discovered? that book by sitting next to someone on an airplane who couldn?t stop laughing out loud at the book while he read. After devouring it myself, I gave it as a gift to many of my friends, at least those who golfed. While I don?t always love Rick Reilly?s Sports Illustrated columns, Missing Links was a truly funny tale of a bunch of hacks on Ponky, ?the world?s worst golf course.?
Shanks for Nothing meets up with them years later, and the audio CD (narrated by Nick Stevens) tells us that Ray ?Stick? Hart has gotten married and had a kid. The premise of the book, primarily, is that Ponky is going to be sold. The group ? including characters like Cementhead, Two-Down and Hoover from the first novel ? scheme in their own pathetic ways on how to raise the money they?d need to buy the course.
The story itself isn?t overly complicated, and a casual reader (or, actually, listener) can see a few things coming from a solid par-4 away. (See what I did there? Oh, so clever.) And perhaps it?s Stevens narration, but the jokes seem forced at times as do some of the pop culture references. There?s also a secondary story about Resource Jones, an inmate and former Ponky hack, scheming a breakout from his prison (which also has a golf course.) Both those elements deter from the overall story, but for fans of Missing Links, it?s still well worth the quick read. It certainly made the commute home amusing over the last week or so.
