Nice Jumper? Great Read!
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If you like golf, buy this. If you don't like golf, still buy this because it's not a manual on swing-planes, it's about life and the fun that you can have making up games like Granny on Wheels (you have to read it to understand this!). Definitely recommended!
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Quality
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This is a quality book, whether you like golf or not. Well written, easy to read and repeatedly funny. The kind of book you will read again and again.
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A time of gifts
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Tom Cox made me uncomfortable. I read this a long way from home, in my thirty second year, and all I could do was think back to my teenage years as an aspiring Seve stuffing half eaten hamburgers in Howard Clarke's golf bag. This book describes to a tee (sorry) what it was like to grow up, not just with an aching desire to be good at golf but also what it is like to be associated with a middle aged man's sport when you're 14, many years before Tiger Woods made golf more fashionable. Cox hits the jackpot here, I didn't want to like this book before I read it, as I imagined it would be something that didn't reflect my own experience. However, it infact reflected my teenage years more accurately than any other work of fiction ever has. So from a totally personal point of view, this book was excellent as it brought back a whole maxfli ballbag full of reminisence. If you would have rather watched top of the pops than listened to Alliss and Hay in 1986, then this book may not be for you. However, if April means The Masters and you still judge backspin with delight, then purchase this book now, you will not be disappointed.
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A MUST READ FOR GOLFERS AND NON-GOLFERS
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An innovative and fresh book that vividly captures the essence of youth.
Although the background is golf, it will appeal to anyone who has been a teenager (everyone!)
If you ever played golf as a youngster, then this book will bring back vivid memories of all those sunny days.
The struggle between desire, expectation and reality are wonderfully brought together by the author.
A great treat if you are buying this book for yourself, a great gift for any golfer in your life, or simply anyone who's young at heart!
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At last a chronicle of a teenage outdoor type
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Not being particularly interested in golf didn't matter a bit for me as I found Nice Jumper said a lot of the things that I feel are true about being a teenager and not entirely fitting in with your mates. For me it was BMX bikes but I think anyone with memories of being obsessed about something and only later realising you may well have looked a bit of an idiot will find comfort in this book. It made me cringe in recognition and laugh out loud at the same time.
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