Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humour, and vast knowledge of the game of golf in 80 original pieces about what it has meant to him and to others, and all the reasons we love it.

In So Help Me Golf, Rick Reilly unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive.

We meet the player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills. We'll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that's underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators.

This is Reilly's valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without.


'a bulging collection of sharp and snappy snippets .... fascinating, informative and revealing' Mail on Sunday

'Reilly has an infectious voice (2.5 funny things per page, I counted)' The Wall Street Journal

'a love note to the game that will make you laugh and cry' Golf Week, USA Today Sports

[Commander in Cheat cover thumbnail - Shortlisted for the 2019 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award]