Essays by Jeff Wallach · Burford Books

Driven to Extremes: Uncommon Tales from Golf's Unmanicured Terrain Golf at the unmanicured edges of the world.

A small-press classic of the literary golf shelf — back in print, in hardcover, and signed by the author.

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What it's about

Golf at the unmanicured edges of the world.

From the Old Course at St. Andrews and the west coast of Ireland to Bandon Dunes, the red rock of Moab, and the foothills of Nepal, veteran golf journalist Jeff Wallach travels to the unmanicured edges of the game and reports back with wit and warmth.

Wallach has filed nearly a thousand pieces for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, GOLF Magazine, and Men's Journal — and the same eye for the unusual that has served him in those pages is what gives this book its voice. He is interested less in scorecards than in what golf reveals about places, people, and the moments when a round goes sideways in the most instructive ways.

Originally published in hardcover by Burford Books in 2002, Driven to Extremes is a small-press classic of the literary golf shelf — and a window into Jeff's first decade of globe-trotting reporting before Mr. Wizard.

"This diverse collection of entertaining glimpses into the wide world of golf reads like a scorecard that breaks seventy. I enjoyed it immensely."
Jim Dodson, author 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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TitleDriven to Extremes: Uncommon Tales from Golf's Unmanicured Terrain
AuthorJeff Wallach
PublisherJeff Wallach
FormatHardcover · Signed reprint
Price$22.95
ISBN-13978-1-58080-103-4
GenreGolf essays · travel writing
ShippingShips personally from the author in Portland, OR · 2–3 days

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Far from the fairway.

A hardcover essay collection from one of the most-read voices in golf travel writing — direct from Jeff's writing desk while supplies last.

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