Do you enjoy playing ‘couples’ golf? So does the author who says “… a day on the course with my husband and another couple is golf as good as it gets.” However, it can be a real challenge playing with men, with their habit of offering unwanted advice or of walking off the putting green before you have holed out. Chapter 3, Training Your Husband, is a lively recounting of these typical male behaviours!


But we women have our own problems. A Housewife’s Work is Never Done describes how years of multi-tasking and of being aware of the needs of our loved ones 24/7 make us prone to distraction on the golf course, a place where single-minded concentration is essential. Click here to read A Housewife’s Work is Never Done

Mulranny Memories describes a magical day on a small, remote course in the north of Ireland, the kind of surprising and memorable day which golf so often serves up. Meanwhile, Big Girls Do Cry tells of an unremittingly horrible day in southern Spain, when nothing worked and the author’s golfing courage was tested to the limit. Click here to read Mulranny Memories

After reading Hot Wheels, The Mother of all Bags and Never Up, Never In! you’ll never think about your trolley, your golf bag or your putter in the same way again. And Blue is the New Black offers a whole new outlook on the outfits we women wear on the links.


All women golfers who have struggled to learn this difficult game will take comfort from reading about the author’s own journey to gain control of her body, her swing and her mind in the chapters called A Pain in the Neck, The Anguish of the Un-Athletic, A Leap of Faith, and Fear of Flailing.

And in case you find the Rules of Golf a mystery, a muddle or simply mind-numbing, the Appendices lay out the basics in a simple and logical way. A great overview for beginners and veteran golfers alike.

Illustrations by Malcolm Willett         

© 2008 Peggy Strachan