“After PG Wodehouse’s golf stories, this book was among the most thoroughly enjoyable volumes, I have ever come across.”
-V.N. Narayanan
Editor-in-chief, The Tribune

“An entertaining booklet.”
-Khushwant Singh
Acclaimed Author

I thought Golf was an abbreviation
G : Geriatric
O : Organasation Of
L : Lame &
F : Feeble

Fifteen years later, Dr. Jaideep Singh Chadha has came out with a revised version of The Other Side of Golf. In these years, nothing much has changed as far as golf goes, but the no. of people who play and want to play the game has gone up by leaps and bounds.
Unfortunately, not everyone gets a membership to golf clubs, so they remain on the periphery of the world of golf. Dr. Chadha has added a chapter for them. More and more of the younger lot are taking to golf and they have their own problems. He has also addressed them specifically.
After the successful novel “Vinculum”, he has authored another best selling book, “Please Mom! IMy Life” exclusively for teenagers and their parents.

CONTENTS:

• Preface to the Revised Edition
• Introduction
• Classification of Golfers
• The Most Popular Golfer
• Advice for the Soon-to-be-Married Golfers
• How to Win at Golf......Every time
• Bad Lies and Some Remedies
• Importance of Riddles
• Occultism in Golf
• Medicine and Golf
• Medical Emergencies and the Golf Course
• Golfing Dietetics
• Reference Concentration Diversions

AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK IS AS FOLLOWS:

Introduction
I have flared up at many a party, for I was confused
and thus angry. The reason was not earth- shattering. It was in relation to golf. No, I wasn’t angry at golf itself. How could I be? I have always been a sportsman. To me, golf was just a game, like any other. I was angry with those who played golf with their tongues instead of golf clubs—at parties!
I was angry at their inability to read the bored-to-death expressions of their audiences. What bugged me more was the consistency of their behaviour.
I decided to figure out the hows and whys. How does the golf club imbibe this egoistic trait into men the world over—almost instantaneously—the moment they hold on to one? Or is it the ball? I thought about my own days when I played competitive badminton. In those days, I was considered something of an artist. I could hit the shuttle at any angle I wanted; a flick of my wrist would send the opponent jerking and shunting all over the court, except where the shuttle finally landed, that is. My spin serve would get him into all kinds of mental and physical troubles, my drops would sail through the air and land on to the net and, half-heartedly, tumble over to the opponent’s court, almost in slow motion. But never have I sat down to discuss with anyone at a party about how well I played or dropped or sliced or smashed. Neither did my friends.
Then how do we explain the behaviour of golfers? Could it be that one rarely comes across a person who played badminton at that level? Could be. Or is that in every elite gathering, almost everybody plays golf or at least is supposed to? But the answer still eluded me. So I decided to join the gang to find out what makes them tick. I met golfers and saw them playing. Till now, I had dubbed golf a ‘talker’s game’ and you know why. What I discovered was pretty simple. Most regular players were mediocre and played for the sake of enjoying the game and the camaraderie that it involved. I rarely saw the party golfers on the course. The real players, with handicaps ranging between four and fifteen, were the silent ones. Some of them were even embarrassed talking about their prowess with the golf club and what they could do to the ball with it. For them, the orgasmic ecstasy of hitting the ball right was enough.
I was then scared. I wondered what the future held for me. Would I become the talking golfer, or the playing golfer? And if I did become a talking golfer, I wondered what I would talk about! After all, there are only the clubs and the balls! Oh yes! and the greens, the handicaps, the pars, the hole in ones and the course. Ah! and the swing, and the putt!
I went after golf like a race dog goes after a rabbit. This game continued to fool me even when I thought I was good. Despite the fact that I had brought down my handicap down to eight in a hurry and played in the “Chandigarh WILL’S Open” held in 1989, I still sliced when I shouldn’t have, topped balls, missed putts, duffed sure winners, went into roughs a thousand times, lost balls and did things which humiliate me to this day. I have even had nightmares because of the ball lying in a divot. I played with golfers who did everything I did and a lot more. But they seemed contented with their handicaps. There was another difference. They won most of the time. I noticed people hit perfect greeners from difficult fairway bunkers, from under low shrubs, never lost balls and as a result, never lost.
Thus, I decided to delve deeper into their modus operandi and succeeded in unearthing new techniques of golf. It was these very people who gave me lectures about golf being a gentleman’s game. I agreed with them whole-heartedly and decided to educate other gentlemen through this book. Readers can pick and choose from The funny side of Golf and win—every time!
Happy Golfing!


(author)
jaichadha2001@yahoo.co.in