{"product_id":"9781466872011","title":"The Pro: A Golf Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eDel Bonnet, a teaching pro at an obscure Florida golf resort, needs a change and needs it badly. Having crossed an ominous threshold--his fiftieth birthday--Bonnet receives frequent communiques from the AARP people. He gazes into the future and sees the prospect of assisted living growing larger by the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerendipity intervenes. A sales rep working out of his station wagon leaves a handmade driver in Bonnet's modest golf shop. The pro privately auditions the driver with astounding results. Bonnet--celebrated for thirty years as the only touring pro to be arrested on the course during a PGA event--is quickly convinced that he has secured possession of no mere golf club, but a sword of salvation. So armed, he decides to embark on the PGA Seniors Tour. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus the formation of a strange triumvirate known as Team Del, consisting of the pro, the golf club that soon becomes dubbed \"Big Luther,\" and a caddie, Doublewide McBride. Bonnet soon learns that the caddie is long on off-the-wall intuitions, short on behavioral graces recommended by Emily Post. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the misadventures of Team Del might not serve as a tribute to the memories Hagen and Hogan, the events detailed in Michael Shropshire's \u003ci\u003eThe Pro\u003c\/i\u003e stand out as perhaps the most hilarious odyssey in the modern annals of sports fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129435537648,"sku":"9781466872011","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466872011_p0.jpg?v=1769891904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466872011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}