One of the highlights of my summer was having breakfast with Michael Murphy in July ... he was up with the film producer looking at locations for the various golf scenes.

Todd,
Welcome to GCA. Looks like you are in a good fit with Mackenzie bags. They'll get some good pub from being used in the movie.

OK all you talkers out there!

Digging into the website cited above, it is clear that they are crying out for someone to play the Michael Murphy character!

Chance of a lifetime to escape the drudgery of the day to day job and whatever else you do other than post on GCA.com!

As I see it, the successful character needs to be young and have a combination of:

--Jim Sullivan's golf game (Murphy has an ego bigger than Tom Paul's weekly Merlot bill)
--Barney's zen-like attitude to life
--Huckaby's loveable balance between naivete and certitude
--Jordan Wall's inability to convincingly prove his existence

Line up for the casting couch, studs!

--Huckaby's loveable balance between naivete and certitude

Dammit you summed me up well...  

Rich, I now have a goal.  Interestingly I fear though that the wife and kids would be the easiest parts of that to shed.

 

Hmmmmmmmmmm

I sure as hell won't be the one to recommend the book to you, John.  I loved it, but many hate it.  Put it this way:  if you read or watched Baggar Vance and found too much Oprah-ish crap in that, you'll REALLY hate Golf in the Kingdom - particularly the second half of the book.

It's not for everyone, that's for sure.

But I do think it isn't about men and their inner feelings... but more about what golf can mean to anyone.

TH

 
Well, that's the book in a nutshell... or is to the same extent that Huckleberry Finn in a nutshell is about two guys river rafting.

And sending your daughter to SoCal will be risky indeed... they're crazy down there.  You might want to consider the central/northern parts of the state, and a certain fine Jesuit institution in silicon valley.  

TH

That's a good point also.. I have my own inner voice for Shivas Irons and there's no way in hell the voice on the tape will come close... and that would piss me off.

TH

That's a good point also.. I have my own inner voice for Shivas Irons and there's no way in hell the voice on the tape will come close... and that would piss me off.

TH

Huck,

Do me a favor and click on Itunes and take a listen to the preview.(might be the author so be careful)

I just listened to the preview on Itunes...He hooks up with a classmate from Stanford and they set up a get together at Big Sur to talk about his time in India and Scotland.  This sounds like the perfect book to listen to on a trip out to LA to see if that is where I will let my daughter set out on the rest of her life.  ...

Only if you want to fall asleep and run off the road.

Let's see. You have eco freaks in OR, just plain freaks in NO Cal, diva freaks in So Cal. I guess WA is the only safe place on the west coast to send your daughter.  

Huck,

I'm downloading the book as we speak.  The very idea of how much I'm going to hate it has put me in a very good mood.

Jax, send me your address, you can have mine.