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Title: Well crafted prose reveals poor personal values.
Review: William Hallberg brings us many insightful, poignant and well crafted passages about golf, companionship, and his personal biography. Unfortunately, his efforts get lost in what seems to be more a soul searching than the soul of golf. While reading passages about a wide range of courses, companions and rounds of golf so well written that I felt I could almost hear him speaking, I was, at the same time, deeply troubled that what sounds like caring man would neglect meaningful, adult responsibilities and relationships in favor of a traveling golf fantasy and potential book sale earnings. Ultimately, for me the Soul of Golf became more a story of how a man with wonderful literary, golfing and, by his own account, interpersonal skills bemoans his well earned guilt about leaving the sufferings of several family members behind in pursuit of what is, after all, a game. Ultimately, I think it missed it's mark.
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