2010 Holiday Gift Guide: The Gift of Golf

By Patrick Mateer, 117 pages, Four Under Golf L.L.C., $14.95,

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Believe it
or not, there
actually was a
time when it was
not acceptable
for a round of
golf to take upward of five
hours. If Patrick Mateer has
anything to say about it, that
time may come again. In The
Return of the Four Hour Round,
Mateer examines the reasons
behind the gradual slowing
in the pace of play and lays
down some simple ground
rules for a perfect (and
punctilious) round of golf.