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HOW TO QUIT GOLF

AND GET YOUR LIFE BACK

Danny Cahill

ISBN 979-88-86451-44-3

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Publication: 30 MAY 2024
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ISBN: 9798886451443
Price: £25.50
Binding: Hardback

Format: 229 x 152 mm
Extent: 272 pp
Thema: SFH Golf and WH Humour

Comparative title: 9781626346260Fear Is My Homeboy

Do you need to quit golf? Take a short quiz!
1. Do you show your golf scorecards to, well, uh . . . anyone?
2. At dinner, do you find yourself practicing your grip on your
utensils? (The Vs of the fork’s first tine, for the righthander,
should point to the right shoulder.)
3. Look above you. Are there marks on the ceilings of your
house because you can’t help but try to “bust one” even when
you’re indoors and there is no ball?
4. Have you taken to reflexively calling your children “pards?”
5. Do other golf aphorisms make their way into your personal
life? (Examples include finding your lost car keys and with a
shrug saying, “Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and
again,” or feeding your actual dog and exhorting, “Time to let
Danny Cahill is the last guy to talk to about work life balance. As a the big dog eat!”)
headhunter, he has built Hobson Associates into one of the country's 6. Does your dry cleaner, never having seen your swing but
largest privately held search firms. His coaching and training company, processing your bill, assume you are a golf pro?
According to Danny, is the largest in the staffing industry. His 7. Do you think of all spatial relationships in the real world in
motivational speaking and career coaching earned him the industry's terms of golfing distance? (When parking at the mall and your
highest honor, the NAPS Lifetime Achievement award. In his writing wife suggests you are too far away, do you say, “What? It’s
like a stock gap wedge to Panera from here.” When she
life, as a playwright, he has had works produced off Broadway and won disagrees, do you break out the Bushnell and shoot the store’s
both the Maxwell Anderson and CAB theatre awards. He is the author signage?)
of the popular memoir, Aging Disgracefully, and Harper's Rules, which
won an Axiom award. He attributes his success, fledgling as it is, to a If you answered “Yes” to any of the above, you really, really
systematic, consistent, and disciplined . . . neglect of loved ones. need to quit golf. Danny Cahill will make you laugh and nod
with recognition in his latest book (part social satire/
commentary; part clever psychological study) about the game
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP
T: 01404 515050 of golf and its intoxicating hold on those who love it. A likeable
E: enquiries@starbooksales.com middle-aged golfer (coping with the thought that everything is
twitter.com/starbooksales in decline at this time of life) has crossed over from healthy
hobby to unmanageable obsession. He knows he should quit
Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. spending so much time working on his golf game. He knows
Email: orders@combook.co.uk
Phone: 01892 837171 his life at home is unravelling. But fully aware of just how much
the game is laying waste to his powers, he nevertheless
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change continues to count the hours to his next tee time.
without notice. 02/11/2023