Josh Karp
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Josh Karp is a Chicago-based journalist and author. His work has appeared in Salon, The Atlantic Monthly Online, Premiere, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, and other publications. His most recent book is Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing. He is also the author of A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever.

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The Spirituality of Golf

Posted May 14, 2010 | 12:39:00 (EST)

Every sport gets saddled with a metaphor or two. Baseball is pastoral and embodies all that is American. The improvisational component of basketball always evokes jazz music. Football, as George Carlin so aptly explained, is war -- filled with bombs, blitzes, and field generals.

Then there is golf, which, some...

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