Driving Myself Crazy (HC)

Driving Myself Crazy by Jessica Maxwell is a spirited and original first person account of the author's golfing education-the teachers, the misadventures, the mistakes, the triumphs, and the confidence that blooms once the game finally begins to improve. This irreverent memoir provides a front row seat as Jessica struggles to learn golf's etiquette, traditions, and complex rules-from her first comical attempts to coax practice balls out of the ball machine, to just hitting the damn ball, to the prize of becoming a bona fide woman golferher own set of Nancy Lopez clubs. Among her coaches are Peter Crocker, a revolutionary Australian teaching pro, Cindy Swift Jones, his partner and putting guru, and Al Mundle, the Harvey Penick of the Northwest, as well as American golf legend Peggy Kirk Bell, and LPGA champion Nancy Lopez. Jessica visits some of the world's great golf courses: Pine Needles, North Carolina; eastern Oregon's Sun River's Crosswater; Montana's Jack Nicklaus designed Iron Works, built on a former copper mine; and Alabama's Robert Trent Jones Trail, considered by many to be America's best public course-all crowned by a rare visit to Scotland's great Aberdeen, Troon, Carnoustie, and St. Andrews.