“Nowhere in our society are standards upheld so rigidly as at the great British golf club.”
Dom Joly best known for his hidden camera tv sketch show Trigger Happy TV and Dom Joly’s Happy Hour where discovered the drinking habits of different cultures, has just released a book of spoof letters to his golf club.
The letters are written under various pseudonyms and include outrageous requests. Will the Club Secretary clamp down on ilicit dog-fighting on their premises? Will the Board allow Snoop Dogg to be filmed golfing on drugs? How will the groundsman cope with accusations of dwarf-tossing?
There is a great book review on the Golf in London blog. As the review points out, Dom Joly isn’t the first to tread this path. In fact Joly himself acknowledges a few in his introduction - The Henry Root Letters by William Donaldson, The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper or Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy. But finding Joly both clever and
The book retails at £9.99 but Play.com are selling it at £4.99 (including p+p).
A great Christmas stocking filler.
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