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  • Published: 15 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780770437206
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $50.00

Loopers

A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey



Exploring one man's twenty-year journey as a career caddy, this memoir reminds us of the lure of the game and the reason we continue to tee up, year in and year out.

John Dunn never expected that his summer job as a caddie at the local course in Connecticut might turn into something more. The lifers who plied the loops were an ensemble of misfits and degenerates who made the caddie yard look more like a gambling hall than a country club. But Dunn came of age in those yards and on those courses, and the magnetism of the game and the lifestyle proved irresistible. One adventure after another kept him coming back summer after summer, until he found himself migrating with the seasons, looping at some of the most exquisite and exclusive golf locations in the world. Dunn crisscrossed the country on his own big loop, working inside the privet hedges while camping on the mountains, following the back roads and stumbling across unexpected moments of profound natural beauty, and embracing the freedom of what he calls the last vagabond existence in America, all while trying to decide whether to quit the loop and get a real job. Maybe next season...

  • Published: 15 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780770437206
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $50.00

Praise for Loopers

Praise for Loopers:

  • "...Wildly original...Reading this wonderful book made me want to fall in love with golf again...and to hit the road, in search of the adventure and self-discovery that Dunn found." --Alan Shipnuck, author of Bud, Sweat & Tees and co-author of The Swinger
  • "John Dunn turns toting the golf bags of the rich into an evocative and often very funny meditation on class and purpose." --Tad Friend, author of Cheerful Money
  • "Is caddying a vocation or a permanent vacation? John Dunn has an amazing talent to get the reader to 'enter the writer's tent' and imagine you're right there with him in St. Andrews, at Bandon Dunes, at Shinnecock, at Olympic. It's a trip work taking." --Mike Keiser, Owner, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort