Telling the Truth with a Smile: Golf Stories from the Buck Creek Series

By Jerry Pattengale

The golf course: it’s that rare place where one minute four guys are concentrating on their target, taking aim, and swinging for glory, but minutes later they’re in the fetal position, rolling on the tee station laughing. Grown men become silly. Young men and women witness transformations of fathers into man-boys.

This little book captures a hilarious glimpse into the human condition. It contains true stories culled from the author’s Buck Creek newsprint series—the first of which recently earned the top sports writing award by the Hoosier State Press Association.

Those who have read the author’s newsprint series for the past twenty years have come to expect such fun reads. Pick up your copy of Telling the Truth with a Smile and laugh along with Jerry on the back nine!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dust Jacket Press
• Release date: Jul 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9780996995795

Jerry Pattengale

Jerry Pattengale serves at Indiana Wesleyan University as university professor and codirector of the Lumen Research Institute.

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© 2016 by Jerry Pattengale

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D E D I C A T I O N

To Jordan Spieth and Austin Conroy-two great golfers. One gets paid by the PGA to golf, the other by Indiana Wesleyan University to coach students on the golf course. Both have become role modds on and off the short grass. And both could beat me with a putter and any other club.

And to Chris Faulkner. He plays golf with the same intensity he played professional football especially in the sand traps.

The author donated thousands of these books to charity; people love uplifting, provocative stories.

All proceeds from this book's first printing go to Lightriders Ministries in honor of the late Paul E. Turner

C O N T E N T S

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Dedication

Introduction

1. The FedEx Cup and Political Swings

2. Teeing off a Skunk on a Buck Creek Golf Course

3. Taking Paul Stookey on Our Double-Decker Golf Bus

4. Crooked Stick Helped Me to Think Straight

5. Practical Jokes Are Par