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Gary Irvine's wife refuses to sleep with him, so he pursues an even stingier mistress: golf. But despite his spending unconscionable amounts of time and money, his game is wretched. Until the day he takes a perfect swing . . . and then everything goes black.
After waking up from a coma a few weeks later, with a golf-ball-sized dent in his temple, Gary discovers that his last perfect swing has been imprinted on his brain. However, his newfound prowess is accompanied by some troubling side effects, most noticeably Tourette's.
As Gary miraculously advances to the final round of the British Open, his delinquent brother, Lee, stumbles from one botched drug deal to another, his orbit drawing ever nearer to the terrifying local crime lord Ranta Campbell. With their lives on the line, Gary and Lee must rediscover the ties that bind to survive a blood-soaked final round.
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Howard Ellis
reviewed The Amateurs on November 05, 2019
The Amateurs
Gary Irvine is an extremely keen golfer, but absolutely hopeless at the game. His shallow, aquisitive wife is having an affair behind his back. His brother Lee is a no-mark petty criminal and wannabe drug dealer.
Then Gary gets hit smack in the temple by a golf ball. After lying in a coma for a few days he wakes up to find that he has a perfect golf swing, tourettes syndrome and a compulsive urge to masturbate at times of great stress. As Meatloaf didn't say, one out of three ain't bad (I'm not saying which one)
Soon Gary is the talk of the clubhouse as he wins the monthly tournament - though the image on the front of the papers is him, ahem, taking himself in hand, on the 18th green at the moment of victory. They were complaining about that one in the clubhouse I fear.
Through a series of unlikely events Gary qualifies for the Open, and he is soon hanging out with his golfing heroes. He more than holds his own in the competition, though his constant swearing is rubbing up the committee men the wrong way. Relief is at hand though as his caddy finds a novel way of stopping the profanity.
Another narrative arc has pikey brother Lee going for a big drug deal, but he totally screws it up, and is on the run for his life from the local Mr Big, a man who thinks nothing of administering brutal, messy and very bloody justice to those that have wronged him.
A joyful and funny romp featuring profanity in buckets, infidelity, murder, gangsters - worth a read.
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