Out of print for years · Limited signed reprint

Driven to Extremes.

Uncommon Tales from Golf’s Unmanicured Terrain.

A wide-ranging and irreverent collection that depicts golf as an adventure sport — from the Old Course at St. Andrews to the dunes of Bandon, the red rock of Moab, and the foothills of Nepal. Out of print for years, the hardcover is finally available again, signed by the author and shipped from his desk in Portland.

What’s inside

By a writer with 1,000+ bylines in Sports Illustrated, GOLF Magazine, and The New York Times.

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Driven to Extremes: Uncommon Tales from Golf's Unmanicured Terrain by Jeff Wallach — book cover

Many of these stories first appeared in

Sports Illustrated Inside Golf Travel + Leisure Golf & other national publications

What’s inside

Golf, played at the edges of the map.

Three decades of reporting from a writer who treats a round of golf the way other people treat a passport stamp — collected here in one hardcover.

01

The game’s wildest places

St. Andrews and the coast of Ireland. Bandon Dunes. The red rock of Moab, Utah. The foothills of Nepal — and a good many fairways in between.

02

Golf’s most off-beat teachers

Lessons from some of the game’s most unconventional instructors — the kind who change how you think about a sport long before they fix your slice.

03

Characters worth the green fee

Time with figures as varied as architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr., Tim Galley, and the plaid-clad members of the American Association of Golf Course Architects.

About the book

Golf as an adventure sport.

Most golf books stay on the manicured side of the rope. Driven to Extremes climbs over it. Across a wide-ranging, irreverent set of stories, Jeff Wallach goes looking for the game in the places it has no business being — the storied shrines, the far-flung outposts, and the eccentric corners where golf turns into something closer to an expedition.

Travel to St. Andrews, the west coast of Ireland, Bandon Dunes, the red rock of Moab, and the high foothills of Nepal. Take lessons from some of golf’s most off-beat instructors, and hang with personalities as varied as architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr., Tim Galley, and the plaid-wearing members of the American Association of Golf Course Architects.

Many of these pieces first ran in Sports Illustrated, Inside Golf, Travel + Leisure Golf, and other top national publications — gathered here, in hardcover, for the readers who kept asking where they could find them again.

“This diverse collection of entertaining glimpses into the wide world of golf reads like a scorecard that breaks seventy. I enjoyed it immensely.”
Jim DodsonAuthor of Final Rounds

About the author

Jeff Wallach

MFA, Fiction Writing — Brown University
BA, English — Vassar College
Golf columnist, Business Traveler Magazine
Author of two novels and five books of non-fiction

Jeff Wallach is an award-winning journalist who spent four decades filing nearly a thousand articles, essays, and columns for a long list of magazines that people actually read — The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, GOLF Magazine, Golf Digest, Outside, and Men’s Health among them.

He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Brown University and a BA in English from Vassar College. He lives in Portland, Oregon, plays soccer, and claims — with characteristic modesty — to have “a good short game for a journalist.”

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The details

Everything you need to know.

TitleDriven to Extremes: Uncommon Tales from Golf’s Unmanicured Terrain
AuthorJeff Wallach
PublisherBurford Books
FormatHardcover · signed by the author
Price$22.95
ISBN‑13978‑1‑58080‑103‑4
GenreGolf essays · travel writing
ShipsDirect from the author in Portland, OR · 2–3 days

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Limited reprint — when the signed run is gone, it’s gone.

Far from the fairway.

The signed hardcover for the golfer who’s played everywhere — or still dreams of it. A handsome gift, back in print, and shipped personally from Jeff’s desk in Portland while supplies last.

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