Where Tigers Would Fear to Tread: An Irreverent, Incredible and Slightly Insane Look at Golf's Past, Present and Future

Jane M. Wilson is a Toronto-based chartered financial analyst in the
investment business.

Golf has soared in popularity. Its history, trials, and tribulations
have been the inspiration for many humorous books like this entertaining
read. Where Tigers Would Fear to Tread starts off well with a history of
golf, whose origins are in Rome and Holland and not, as some believe, in
Scotland. Next, the author lightheartedly describes golf’s meteoric
rise in public esteem with the advent of Tiger Woods.

Pilsworth strings sentences together in a bright, lyrical way with
amusing similes like “fat headed clubs that resemble wheels of
cheese.” He also illustrates the text with his own comical cartoons.
The sections on “schluffing a game,” “dealing with manic business
partners on the course,” and the “differences between golf fanatics
and hobby golfers,” however, are too silly for words; his
tongue-in-cheek style leaves the reader musing as to what is sincere and
what is not.

Younger nongolfers who have taken an interest in the sport as
spectators will likely find this book more entertaining than true
duffers.