Who’s Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf
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The most amusing and most well loved sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most legendary 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 thought 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 unique 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 excellent 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 fantastic, Reilly combines a wicked wit with an practiced’s eye in a most original and entertaining look at golf.
Who’s Your Caddy? is the next best thing to a fantastic 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 a name, as the adage goes, you must walk a mile in their shoes. But to really know 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 well loved image but at additional 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 copious 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 lacking apt a misty-eyed poetic ode, and it’s laugh-out-loud amusing lacking being grave or low brow. And while golf fans will certainly appreciate it, Who’s Your Caddy? is an impressive book for fans of biography in all-purpose. –John Moe
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The chapter on John Daly and in additional parts makes this the kind of book that is dis-refined. As the Amazon people know I read a winde range of books and books are my leisure activity and I will spend 600+ in a year and I will recommend books if I like them – this is the first book in a long while I was disapointed with. Says it is suposed to be humour – they mean TOILET houmor. Swearing and situations like John Daly.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Fantastic Book. I am a golf nut and really loved all the tales, specially the one with Donald Trump, Donald…you da maaan!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a stinker of a book. It has small or nothing to do with caddying for the rich and legendary or not so. It has to do with Reilly telling tales out of school about everyone he “loops” for. The thought is excellent. The writing is crap. Pure and simple. A triple bogey. Just dreadful. I won’t even loan or give this book to a name. It goes into the wastebasket.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Disappointing. Reilly is a better writer. The book is not so much about caddying, as the title might suggest, as it is a series of lightweight, cliched personality pieces about a variety of golfers, professional and recreational, and pseudo-golfers (that is, huge stakes golf gamblers). Was the book edited? As just one glaring example, in the chapter about David Duval Reilly recounts Jack Nicklaus giving advice to David Duval during a practice round at the 1992 U.S. Open while standing on the legendary 18th tee. Why not “the legendary 18th tee at Pebble Beach,” or wherever? I follow golf, but I can’t recall the course where the 1992 Open was played. I’d place the book in the “browse at the beach” category.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Appealing snippets from a variety of sources. I have read a excellent amount of golf books but aside from the bathroom type of humor that is amusing, but still bathroom, I establish it an enjoyable read, with a stretch for essential clarity. Again, Reilly would probably say that this is a panorama, so whatever. And really , I would agree. Chopra and Blind golfer harkens back to “golf in the kingdom” which are trying to get to the essence of golf, not that we would try, again whatever. He might get there to some extent in the final chapter, but not reasonably. Daly was amusing for gutteral laughter, all-purpose openness, and delivers on his basis ‘goodness’, that is genuine and engaging. The chaptering enables an nice cut-off for business travelers. Some of the profanity is shocking but real, and the intermezzo between chapters is fun to decipher but as appealing as intermezzzo, which is some hackneyed italian axiom meaning intermisssion,…intermission. Jack was cool, but would not want to spoil it. Aaron, not hank, early in the read, get you engaged, and moves you forwards but I will let you read. Anyway, excellent read. My first Reilly, but I like. I like that he has honor for the game and many aspects of the game, comes to some realization, that is a: late, and too sentimental. What about the spikemarks, or random cubans that I pull on during our rounds. I like kingdom, but you are not kingdom, nor should you be. Fore. Bury your heads. Really the intermezzo are some of the more appealing additions.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5