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Confessions of a Sandbagger
by JJ Gowland   
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Confessions of a Sandbagger

Category:  Golf
Publisher: PublishAmerica

ISBN-10:  1413755275

Type: Fiction

Pages: 143

Copyright: 
Dec, 2004

Mikey, the chronic sandbagger and golf cheat has been tied to his golf bag and dropped into a pond. As other golfers play thru, he must convince them to rescue his soggy being.

Reviews

Dave Perkins, Toronto Star Sports/Golf Columnist, June/05, “I enjoyed the book.       I recognized golfers that every golf course seems to have.”
 

 
 

Avid senior male golfer in Fort Myers, FL, Jan/05, I loved it. I can just imagine a stand-up comedian doing this routine. I've never laughed so much!
 

 
 

Joan, avid golfer in North Fort Myers, Feb/05, When I had to retrieve my golf ball from a pond at Lake Fairways and almost slipped in, all I could think of was a haunting line from ‘Confessions of a Sandbagger’ –‘Oh NO! How deep is this pond?’
 

 
 

“C”, an avid golfer in Ontario, Apr/05,         I haven’t had a chance to read the book yet.  My 17 year old, non-golfing, daughter picked it up off the coffee table, read it, loved it, and took it to school to ask permission from her teacher to do a book report on it.
 

 
 

Matt MacKay, RCGA Handicap Coordinator, Nov. 05, "It was a lot of fun to read. Definitely some good life lessons, golf tips, and all teed up with entertaining golf stories."
 

 
 

Scott Stewart, Oakville Today Sports,      Dec /05 “The author scores a Hole-in-0ne with this delightful page-turner.”
 

 
 

Horace J. Digby, Kelso, WA, Sandbagger Mag-e-zine, and Winner of the Robert Benchley Society Humor Award 2005, Jan/06, “What a great book. A gripping yarn.  I love the beginning. There are golfers I'd like to do that to.” 

 

I've known a few sandbaggers  
Karen, Mississauga,  Jul/05 “I'm an avid golfer, club champion several times over, District champion 5 times, and a former Ontario Better Ball champion and I really liked this book. The ending will be a total surprise.”
 

 
 

Dorothy, Oakville Golfer, “HILARIOUS!”
 

 
 

Hanne, Mississauga, I really enjoyed this book and I’m not even a golfer! The plot carried me through. I couldn’t believe that so many people wouldn’t rescue him and I started to feel sorry for Mikey. The Sandbagger!  A golfer will get so much more out of the book than a non-golfer.
 



 


 

“Confessions of a Sandbagger”
 

includes golf tips.
 

Paul LaCroix, a 25-yr member of the CPGA, “All the tips are accurate. This is a great story. I’m recommending this book to all my CPGA friends at golf courses in South Western Ontario. They should sell it in their pro shops.  It would make a great tournament prize.”
 

 
 

Robert Ronning, Golf Today “Really enjoyed it. I was quite taken with your tips on sizing up your “opponents.  Good stuff, very perceptive!”
 

 
Bob Spiwak, Cybergolf.com, “A great read for the loo or the bedside. The author is obviously a talented writer who knows golf.”  
 



Excerpt

Michael Blaine is the CrossCreek Golf and Country Club sandbagger. On a glorious autumn day in southern Ontario, his Saturday morning playing partners take revenge by strapping him to his golf bag (stuffed with 15 clubs) and tossing him into the pond on the par three 17th hole.
As he sinks up to his neck in the pond, he ponders his attitudes, career, and marriage. When each group of golfers plays through from the 17th tee, he tries to enlist a rescue team. Convincing the members and the goose-chasing dog ‘Kaida’ that he is worth rescuing is about as difficult as any job he has ever faced.



Professional Reviews

Confessions of a Sandbagger
Bob Spiwak, Cybergolf.com, “A great read for the loo or the bedside. The author is obviously a talented writer who knows golf.”

Golf Tips included
“Confessions of a Sandbagger”
includes golf tips.
Paul LaCroix, a 25-yr member of the CPGA, “All the tips are accurate. This is a great story. I’m recommending this book to all my CPGA friends at golf courses in South Western Ontario. They should sell it in their pro shops. It would make a great tournament prize.”



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