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The further Adventures of Tom Cox
Apr 03 2008 Posted in Euro, Golf Quotes by GoKartThe second of our extracts of Tom Cox’s book; ‘Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia’. Tom, after golf obsessed teenage years and a long layoff, gets lured back into the game and finds he’s still a halfway decent player. Maybe halfway decent enough to have a go at being a pro…
“I’d seen older friends go through similar epiphanies. Upon reaching thirty, it had suddenly dawned on them that, no, at sixteen stone, with a mortgage and a steady job in the civil service, perhaps they weren’t going to fulfil that dream of playing on the right wing for Nottingham Forest after all. My predicament, however, was slightly different. Footballers (goalkeepers and Teddy Sheringham excepted) may be washed up at thirty, but, as of May 2005. the average age of the top fifty players in golf’s world rankings was 32.06. I actually had two full years until I was due to hit my peak! (more…)
Add a comment Tweet“I don’t look like I should play golf….”
Mar 18 2008 Posted in Euro, Golf Quotes by GoKart…says Tom Cox, our favourite golf writer; author of ‘Nice Jumper’ and ‘Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia’.
Tom has very kindly given us permission to feature sections of his books here on the blog. Not as a substitute for going and and buying them of course, but more to whet your appetite for golfing fodder during dark evenings and sideways rain afternoons.
Tom is rather an unusual golfer, as you’ll gather from his writing. Discovering golf in his early teens (‘Nice Jumper’), he abruptly veered off the fairway and gave up when success was a short putt away. After eight years in denial of his addiction, the game proved impossible to resist and he was back swinging dervishly, with a degree of success that pointed him towards the pro ranks, just to see what would happen (‘Bring me the head…’). We won’t tell you the outcome, you’ll have to read it…And if you want to read it quicker than our regular excerpts allow, you can get both books on Amazon here.
So settle down, and here’s a bit of a scene setter for Mr.Cox’s great adventure in ‘Sergio’;
“Sometimes I think none of this would have happened if I hadn’t met Jerry. At other times I think it was all down to the most perfect eight-iron of my life, struck one idyllic summer evening on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. At other times I just blame it all on Sergio Garcia. (more…)
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Jan 31 2008 Posted in Customer comment, Euro, Golf Quotes by admin“I cannot honestly say that the GoKart has improved my golf. What I can say is that it has greatly increased the pleasure I get from the standard of golf which I am still playing.”
Thank you David. We’re glad you like the trolley, now if you’d just loosen your grip a tad, take it back slow, pause at the top and finish high, you’re all sorted.
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