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'At any given moment in time, as the world turns, millions of men and women are hacking, duffing, topping and shanking golf balls on resort courses and goat tracks from Pebble Beach to Pratt's Bottom.

'Mulligan documents a single, glorious spring week in the golfing lives of three such hacks in their quest for the inaugural Coolum Cup on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Long-term mates and the keepers of each other's most intimate secrets, they pick and plod their way across numerous courses during their annual 'away' tour, carrying the heavy bag towards mid-life and an uncertain future.

'Who will lift the dung-shaped cup? Will Farquharson utilise his famous stroke-reducing pencil on his scorecard? Will the tech-savvy Dog stay off his mobile phone long enough to hit the longest drive in history? And who, in a threesome built on trust and old fashioned Australian mateship, will sneak the first mulligan?

'For the first time Mulligan takes you into the inner-sanctum of hackdom, reveals what is really spoken inside the mannered citadel of the golf course, and exposes the often hilarious, often heartbreakingly sad architecture of ordinary lives on the brink of change.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2007 .
      Extent: 204p.
      ISBN: 9781741147933

Works about this Work

Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 7 September 2007; (p. 15)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
Pick of the Week Steven Carroll , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 September 2007; (p. 24)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
In Golf, as in Life, the Swing's the Thing Digby Hildreth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 - 12 August 2007; (p. 23)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
This Week's Selections Craig Cook , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 July 2007; (p. 12)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
Books Phil Brown , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 18 - 24 July no. 645 2007; (p. 25)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
Books Phil Brown , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 18 - 24 July no. 645 2007; (p. 25)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
This Week's Selections Craig Cook , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 July 2007; (p. 12)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
In Golf, as in Life, the Swing's the Thing Digby Hildreth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 - 12 August 2007; (p. 23)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
Pick of the Week Steven Carroll , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 September 2007; (p. 24)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 7 September 2007; (p. 15)

— Review of Mulligan : On Being a Hack Golfer Matthew Condon , 2007 single work novel
Last amended 22 Jan 2008 09:01:11
Subjects:
  • Sunshine Coast, South East Queensland, Queensland,
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