Mike Keiser: "I became convinced that the heavily engineered courses in the United States weren’t designed for golfers like me and my friends."

Mike Keiser has teamed with Stephen Goodwin to pen a golf memoir now due in June (previous listings said May but the book business is dealing with supply chain issues, too).

Golf Digest has posted a lengthy excerpt worth checking out here.

This is great:

As I tried to educate myself about the game’s design and history, the questions kept multiplying. As is often the case, the conventional wisdom was misleading at best, a convenient justification for doing things the same old way. I became convinced that the heavily engineered courses in the United States weren’t designed for golfers like me and my friends. To play them successfully, you had to be able to hit shots that were beyond our abilities—long, straight drives and high, precise approaches. You had to be able to recover from deep bunkers and putt on surfaces as slick as the hood of a car. And yes, you had to stay out of the accursed water hazards. The only people who could manage these feats were pros and a tiny fraction of top amateurs. Why design courses for them? Why inflict misery on everyone else? Who had decreed that a round of golf should be an examination, and the architect should be an examiner intent on exposing the student’s every flaw?