From the Bestselling Author of Final Rounds
Comes the Must-Read Golf Book of 2009

“Truman Capote once observed that every son of the South eventually comes home again—if only in a box. Perhaps fear of this fate explains why, for better or worse, during the quarter century I’d lived in northern New England, I’d return on a fairly regular basis to my boyhood haunts of Pinehurst and Southern Pines, coming home whenever my spirits needed a lift or my ailing golf game required a jumpstart. This is where I played my first full eighteen holes of golf—as a hotheaded, club-tossing teenager—and where I eventually learned to calm down, grow up, play by the rules, and as my late father once put it, appreciate the “higher game.”

In his new memoir, James Dodson, author of the bestselling Final Rounds, returns to the world of golf and to the part of that world in which he developed his passion for the game, this time writing about his desire to pass along his love of golf to his teenage son.

Much as he did in Final Rounds, Jim Dodson looks at the sport that has defined his life and career, and that introduced him to an array of colorful friends and provided him with many hours of joy as he both played the game and wrote about it. In his earlier memoir, he set out with his father to revisit all those golf courses they had played together when Jim was first learning the game. In A Son of the Game, Jim, at loose ends after leaving his longtime job at a national golfing magazine, returns to Pinehurst, North Carolina, the town where he first learned to play golf, looking to find the direction he needs for the rest of his life, and hoping to pass along to his own son, Jack, his love of the game, just as his father had done for him.

Filled with remarkable anecdotes about both the game of golf and the unforgettable characters who play it, and woven through with both the history of Sand Hill's golf and Jim's personal story of reaching out to his young son in hopes of finding in the game a generational bridge and a mutual language, A Son of the Game is sure to find a ready audience. Written with great wit and humor, and all about the love of golf and the bonds between father and son, it will endure as a classic memoir about one man's journey to recover his lost passion and to share that passion with his son.