The Sixth Man

Golf may be a game with character, but for too long it has lacked enough true characters. In Fairway To Hell, Franz Lidz goes in search of golf’s real soul and takes a globe-girdling and wholly serendipitous journey to the margins of that ancient and maddening game. Far removed from the usual golf magazine perspective, he finds unlikely heroes and wildly comical connections to the game. So imagine playing a round with Bill Murray or Judas Priest, or hitting the links on an iceberg or a nudist colony—though not at the same time. In the oddball tradition of P.G. Wodehouse's classic The Heart of a Goof and David Feherty's 2004 best-seller Somewhere In Ireland, A Village Is Missing Its Idiot, Lidz's dispatches are infused with a sense of the elegant and the absurd. In other words, golf.

	Fairway to Hell Around the World in 18 Holes: A Golf Memoir
	Frank Lidz
Golf may be a game with character, but for too long it has lacked enough true characters. In Fairway To Hell, Franz Lidz goes in search of golf’s real soul and takes a globe-girdling and wholly serendipitous journey to the margins of that ancient and maddening game. Far removed from the usual golf magazine perspective, he finds unlikely heroes and wildly comical connections to the game. So imagine playing a round with Bill Murray or Judas Priest, or hitting the links on an iceberg or a nudist colony—though not at the same time. In the oddball tradition of P.G. Wodehouse's classic The Heart of a Goof and David Feherty's 2004 best-seller Somewhere In Ireland, A Village Is Missing Its Idiot, Lidz's dispatches are infused with a sense of the elegant and the absurd. In other words, golf.

About the Author Franz Lidz, a longtime senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a contributing editor at Golf Connoisseur, is the author of Unstrung Heroes: My Improbable Life With Four Impossible Uncles, which was made into a film by Diane Keaton. He has also written for The New York Times, been a commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition, and a reporter for ABC’s Wide World of Sports. He lives on a farm in Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley with two llamas, three Great Pyrenees, two cats, three dozen chickens and guinea fowl, two daughters, and one wife.