Preferred Lies
Mayle C Pigg
RRP: £8
ISBN: 0-9538415-0-2

Over the last ten years, several hundred golf clubs in the British Isles have been celebrating their centenaries. The majority of these clubs have bpusliehd histories to mark this landmark in their existence and over the next few years, many more will do so.

Preferred Lies author Mayle C Pigg, only distantly related to other chauvanists of the same name, looks with a satirical eye at all golf club histories. In giving us the story of Ruxton Abbey Golf Club, he has

ignored the convential approach of narrating events in chronological order and endlessly listing names of worthy past members. Instead he has scratched beneath the surface to discover the strengths that have shaped the personality of the club and brought its major triumphs, as well as the good intentions of committees which have paved the way to major disasters. We are told the true stories behind Burns Night and the Captain's Drive-in and the traumas of the dreaded Refurbishment of the clubhouse. Finally we learn how Ruxton Abbey moves into its second century, at last politically correc tand member-freindly with a chairperson, a Countess no less, at the helm.

But will disaster stike once more and it what form?