Off Course
Cameron Morfit
December 07, 1998
Of Crocs and Crotch HooksYou won't learn much about Tiger Woods or the U.S. Open in Offbeat Golf ($17.95, Santa Monica Press), but you will find courses where tigers roam, and you'll meet Floyd Rowe, who spent 13 months hitting a golf ball across the U.S. and shot 114,737. Bob Loeffelbein's goofy golf compendium also features trick-shot artists Paul Hahn Jr., who slaps 200-yard drives with a club that has a rubber hose for a shaft, and Wedgy Winchester, who can chip coins into the hole from 20 yards out. Loeffelbein loves scary local rules (free drops on crocodile-infested holes at the Mwanza Club in Africa), odd tales such as the one about a submarine that fell from the sky onto a course, and gadgets like the keep-your-head-down-or-else Crotch Hook, a headband connected by a short elastic rope to a huge, barbed hook that fits between a golfer's legs. If nothing else, Offbeat Golf proves that the game can be an exercise in masochism.
Of Crocs and Crotch Hooks
You won't learn much about Tiger Woods or the U.S. Open in Offbeat Golf ($17.95, Santa Monica Press), but you will find courses where tigers roam, and you'll meet Floyd Rowe, who spent 13 months hitting a golf ball across the U.S. and shot 114,737. Bob Loeffelbein's goofy golf compendium also features trick-shot artists Paul Hahn Jr., who slaps 200-yard drives with a club that has a rubber hose for a shaft, and Wedgy Winchester, who can chip coins into the hole from 20 yards out. Loeffelbein loves scary local rules (free drops on crocodile-infested holes at the Mwanza Club in Africa), odd tales such as the one about a submarine that fell from the sky onto a course, and gadgets like the keep-your-head-down-or-else Crotch Hook, a headband connected by a short elastic rope to a huge, barbed hook that fits between a golfer's legs. If nothing else, Offbeat Golf proves that the game can be an exercise in masochism.
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