Golf Without Tears

Golf and love-the two primal obsessions.

P. G. Wodehouse displays his most uproarious storytelling and never-ending jollity in these tales of lovers on the links.
-Cuthbert Banks, champion golfer, wins the heart of his beloved Adeline, who won't give him the time of day until a visiting Russian author ignores everyone to fawn over Cuthbert's golfing prowess.
-One man loses his fiance when he discovers golf late in life (on the eve of his wedding) and just can't stop thinking about it.
-One golfing woman attempts to kill (with her niblick) her golfing husband who just won't stop talking during the game (he survives, cured of his garrulity).
-One golf fanatic discovers, to his horror, that he has married a croquet player; their union is nearly sundered, until she takes up the ancient and royal game and matches his handicap.
-Two men play a single hole sixteen miles long, requiring over eleven-hundred strokes, in a grudge match over the love of one woman.

Other loves stand and fall by the vagaries of that infuriating tiny white ball. The end result is a collection of sublimely funny stories, dear to all golfers, and those who love them.

Praise for P. G. Wodehouse

"One of Britain's most talented comic writers."-Time

"Wodehouse on golf: a delight. He may have been a hacker on the course, but Wodehouse's drives, putts, and mashie shots were deadly accurate when it came to writing about the game."-The Boston Globe

"Mr. Wodehouse's world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in."-Evelyn Waugh

"A master, a genius of inventiveness and versatility, brilliant in his use of language, more adroit than almost any novelist since Dickens."-The Daily Telegraph

"A brilliantly funny writer-perhaps the most consistently funny the English language has produced."-The Times

"Mr. Wodehouse is a creature of pure light and joy."-The New Statesman

Contents
The Clicking of Cuthbert
A Woman Is Only a Woman
A Mixed Threesome
Sundered Hearts
The Salvation of George Mac