Main character of Driving Myself Crazy is Jessica Maxwell. She is loves a challenge. According to an unverifiable legend, golf comes from the words "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden." But, Jessica want to learning about this game. She is want to learning a new sport.
Supporting character of Driving Myself Crazy are :
Ø Peter Croker, a revolutionary Australian teaching pro
Ø Cindy Swift Jones, his partner and putting guru of Jessica
Ø Al Mundle, the Harvey Penick of the Northwest,
Ø Peggy Kirl Bell as well as seventy-eight-year-old American women's golf legend
Ø Nancy Lopes, the queen of golf herself.
They are among of Jessica.
Main idea of Driving Myself Crazy is “Struggles to learn golf’s”
1. Opening
Jessica never wanted to do this. She never wanted to learn the stupid game. Having just three years mastering (sort of) and equally infuriating sport-fly fishing-the last thing She wanted to do was get hooked on golf. Whether someone was new to the game or had played for forty years, they all said the same thing : Golf is a game of anguish. One you play well, the next day your game goes south…and for no good reason. That’s all she needed-a game that make you crazy because the game it self is.
Than a series of inexplicable evends led she directly to the fairway. It was fate. It was destiny there was no way around it : she was supposed to learn to play golf, and that was that. The truth is, as soon as she had the first accidental lesson and witnessed the first drive take of into the wild blue Alabama yonder-which is where she was at the time- was hooked.
Gold played right, is a thing of bauty. But like every other neo-phyte golfer, She swifhly discovered that all those veteran golfers are right, because half an hour later She couldn’t hit the ball to save the soul..or more accurately, she mind. “it is the shithead of sports “she eartz golf coach agreed. Then he told Jessica to keep practicing.
Gold played right, is a thing of bauty. But like every other neo-phyte golfer, She swifhly discovered that all those veteran golfers are right, because half an hour later She couldn’t hit the ball to save the soul..or more accurately, she mind. “it is the shithead of sports “she eartz golf coach agreed. Then he told Jessica to keep practicing.
While women by the thousands are taking up the game, statistics show that most of them quit soon after. Either golf is just too idiotic for them, or they’re all a lot smarter than Jessica. Probably both. But once she launched the first drive that vanishing point of white light pulled she into golf’s interior game. And trapped she there, which sh e afraid, has as much to do with slot machine mentaily as spiritual curiosity. Or perhaps, they are one and the same. A soaring golf ball, a glimpse of the divine: here one moment, gone the next. It’s imposibble not to want more. And everyone knows intermit-tent reward is its own punishment.
So She didn’t give up. And swiftly learned that there is a very good reason the world
“golf” is “flog” spelled backward. On the other hand, the world “course” carries-deep in its mean-dering soul-the French word Coeur, from the Latin cor, both of which mean “heart”. All of which means they can count on one thing : Obsessive romantic spiritual klutz that Jessica, if She can learn to play this crazy game, any women can.
- Content
“Golf!” exclaimed Jessica’s friend Rande. “ I thought golf was for Republicans..and dorks.”
Adventure writer Adventure writer Jessica Maxwell is neither, but she is a woman--and even today golf is primarily a sport for men. In fact, according to an unverifiable legend, the very name of the game comes from the words "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden”. But Jessica loves a challenge, and when she decided to invade this male-dominated territor sheplunged in headfirst, the same way she learned how to ski and fly fish--two very demanding sports she took up in her early thirties after a life as a confirmed "non-jockette”.
Surely golf couldn't be that much more difficult...could it? Breezy and offbeat, Driving Myself Crazy is Jessica's first-person account of her golfing education--the teachers, the theories, themistakes and misadventures, and the confidence she feels once her game begins to improve. In this irreverent memoir, we get a front-row seat as Jessica struggles to learngolf's etiquette, customs, and rules of engagement--from her first comical attempts to simply hit the damn ball, to the ultimate sign of arrival as a bona fide woman golfer... a complete set of Nancy Lopez clubs! Among those who help Jessica master the game are Peter Croker, a revolutionary teaching pro from Australia, and Cindy Swift Jones, his partner and putting guru, as well as Peggy Kirk Bell, a seventy-seven-year-old legend and one of the most famous figures in the history of women's golf, and the queen of golf herself, Nancy Lopez. We also meet a gallery of other vivid characters from the fairways and greens, including the handsome "golf stalker" Graham, a man of mystery, wisdom and uncanny timing. Along the way, Jessica also visits some of the most beautiful golf courses in the country: the Robert Trent Jones Trail in Alabama, considered by many to be the world's finest public golf facility; the scenic Whitefish Lake Club in rugged Montana; and the stylish Pine Needles course in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Celebrating the sport one pro claims is 80 percent physical for beginners and 85 percent mental once you know what you're doing, Driving Myself Crazy, is an engaging and often hilarious account of one woman whose obsession carried her across the globe and led her to discover that despite all the frustration, golf--played right--is a beautiful game.
- Closing
In other words, the women were to pay for building the golf course, and could then use it unti the man needed it for something more important, as long as they also paid for building their own clubhouse and didn’t try to use the men’s.
“Gentlemen only,Ladies forbidden,” quoted Seonaid. Used to be so many sign saying’ that on courses all over Scotland that many people think’s that’s where the word ‘golf’ came from. It isn’t,” she added. But you know, it might as well a been.
“There once was a sign on the front of the ment’s club-house that said all ladies were to use the rear entrance,” reported vice captain Midge Miller. Her tone was the closests anyone came to resentment during our entire tour. Except for Jessica own. Well she just said “You could eaten all you wanted”.
2. Manfaat
As for the benefits of this novel is a lesson that we can take in learning something new we should be patient and should not give up. And secondly that women can also do things that are done by men, such as in this story, first game of golf just for men but for want of a harsh and spirit of jessica maxwell finally he can play golf, despite initially having trouble. This is certainly worthy examples. so when we want something then try, insyaAllah what we want can be realized.
3. Poin penting
ü Nearly all of the clubs she visited were founded in the Victorian age for learning golf’s example in Oregon, Montana, Alabama, and North Carolina.
ü Until her mid-30s, Maxwell considered herself a nonathlete. Then she mastered fly-fishing and skiing, gaining enough proficiency to write about these sports
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