Shanks for nothing
(Book)

Raymond "Stick" Hart is happily married to a Cajun firecracker Dannie, has a rambunctious son, and is getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards. Best of all nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. Then one day the owner announces he's retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes Stick's hated father. Who promptly drops dead. His friend Two Down looses $12,000 to a golf hustler and his wife threatens to cut him off. Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick's been stepping out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and he's soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse. Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems. He'll qualify for the British Open.