Charlie Ryan

Dead Men's Clubs: a Story of Golf, Death, and Redemption Charlie Ryan

Munch Malone is one seriously inept golfer, but that hasn't dimmed his enthusiasm for the game. Now, at seventy, Munch, a high handicapper, has drawn some unlikely attention-from the afterlife. From on high, two golfers-both quite deceased-have been scouring Earth on a quest to find the perfect golfer. But there are so many golfers on so many golf courses. If they are ever to play the game they both loved so much in life again, they need just the right golfer for a grand experiment from the Great Beyond. And then they find Munch. Target acquired, they settle back into their easy chairs in the great clubhouse in the sky, drinks in hand, to watch as their experiment plays itself out down on terra firma-on high-definition television, of course. Meanwhile, down on Earth, Munch is going about his life, oblivious to the role he is about to play in their game. He's just invested in clubs that once belonged to scratch golfers- his secret strategy for success in the USGA Senior Men's Amateur Championship. But his destiny to win the Open is derailed as Vegas operatives plot to steal his clubs. The escapade romps across The Greenbrier's Old White Golf Course and into the hotel's underground bunker-as the adventure is spiced up by sexual twists and Glocks being drawn on the course. Now, it's a battle of wills-both terrestrial and heavenly-to see if Munch's destiny or his ineptitude will reign supreme.