Not everyone equates "the most fun you can have with your pants on" with a good round of golf. But any golfer who has experienced the feeling of one good swing, one good flight of the ball or one long putt running into the hole like a homesick gopher will enjoy these stories. From remote Canadian islands to polar outposts to legendary Florida courses and the fall Golf mecca of Myrtle Beach, golf is everywhere and so are the "local rules".

Flip is an "of age" teenager faced with abusive parents, a Catholic Military prep school and all of the events of the early 1960s from the Bay of Pigs to the first Kennedy assassination and 'Atomic Annie', the first atomic cannon. Having lost his virginity at the age of 12, Flip is passed from "Betty" to "Betty", band followers with conveniently incarcerated husbands. His musical talents let him play with Stan Kenton, Count Basie and some of the great traveling road bands of the '60s, to t...