Scratch Golfer

All Web Daniels wanted to do was shoot par once in his life. Now he's grinding through a golf match where the side bets are a $20 million account, his job, and, as he just found out on his way to the seventeenth tee, his soul. Talk about pressure. SCRATCH GOLFER is a laugh-out-loud comic novel about office politics, business as not-so-usual, and the weekend golfer's desire to shoot a round of par golf before his funeral. Which, at this rate, are all going to be on the same day. Meet Webster Daniels, upper middle management, more than middle-aged husband and fair-to-middling golfer. Actually, Web is a not-so-good golfer. His predictable mid-eighties round has crept into triple digits. He'd give just about anything to win a few Sunday bets, but as long as he's negotiating with the supernatural, is it asking too much to shoot par? Just once? Meet Richards Thomas III, Web's co-worker turned competitor. He's a tanned, handsome and charming devil of a man. He's got his eyes on the same prize as Web - a $20 million account for the hottest name in golf equipment. Meet Cyan Hyde, a copywriter as creative as she is cute, who sports lots of leather and not a few chains. With an entire art department salivating over her, why is she coming on to the slightly doughy and more-than-slightly balding Webster? Meet Aristotle Mann, golf instructor with the looks and manners of a televangelist. He can massage equal amounts of Harvey Pinick, Bhudda and the Bible into a lesson. And he'll really help your game, even though his methods and equipment are weird as hell.