50 Reasons to Hate Golf and Why You Should Never Stop Playing!

Every golfer has a love/hate relationship with the game. What we love about golf one day, we curse at the next. We've all been frustrated to the point of breaking our clubs or vowing to sell them, announcing our departure from this infuriating sport only to show up at the course the next day, excited to play again. Golf is a game that teases, thrills, torments, and teaches. 50 Reasons to Hate Golf and Why You Should Never Stop Playing is a hilarious look at this addictive, wonderful, strange, beautiful, exasperating, mystifying sport and the culture surrounding it that people have been obsessed with for more than 500 years.

Golf teaching professional Fred Fruisen is a Class A member of the PGA of America whose instructional articles have been published internationally in newspapers and magazines, as well as on his website, coachofgolf.com. A former college golf head coach with a successful 18-year career, Fred also happens to be an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer. Although his sense of humor has gotten him into trouble from time to time, some consider him to be a pretty funny guy. Fred—who is happily married, according to his “current" wife (of 21 years)—is presently a Level 3 instructor at the Institute of Golf in Auckland, New Zealand.