Told him that my knees were shot, had taken a spill on a basketball court of all places and found that the ground came up much faster and harder than it used to back in the day. True story, I took a golf lesson from my man Mike Hebron a few years ago. Great post! Been a real while since I read the book don't remember much about it other than that scene come to think of it, even though I was deeply involved with my Ashram and all when I read it, I remember having found found parts of the book impenetrably dense but well worth wadding through.
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Made me wonder if it was actually possible that there could be such a people inhabiting the same planet as the Merkins. What I found charming about Kingdom was the Scots' love of golf, socializing and philosophizing.
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Murphy, who has acknowledged that the book and Irons are fictional, just absolutely beats the life out of his mystical views in a nonfiction treatment, The Future of the Body. I'm a Golf in the Kingdom semi-crazy, but the mysticism parts of the book I found a little ponderous (though not something I'd reject out of hand). Doing that, the hole in one must have been a piece of cake. Anyway, Murphy bagged one blind in that book, and the description of that moment more than anything else seems to have given the book its cult-like status among golfers and single-malt drinkers alike.īravo to the guy who has the stones and love of life to pursue the great game without sight.
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The author, and quasi fictional protagonist, is the founder of Esylan (spelling), the new agey place in Big Sur that was all the rage back in the 60s and 70s. There are actually Golf in the Kingdom crazies all over the place who have started clubs that advertise in the golf magazines. Any of you read and remember Golf In the Kingdom, the part where Murphy, under the tootledge of the fabled Shivas Irons, goes out in the dead of night loaded on single malt to an impossible three par and, blindfolding himself for good measure, sinks a whole in one? An unbelieveable description of what it means to swing, truly swing, a golf club if I remember.