Great condition, outer dust jacket is clipped. The one without the text is not.
The Haunted Major recounts a
golf match of epic proportions between adversaries. In this uproarious
tale about human conceit and the supernatural, Major the Honorable John
William Wentworth Gore, an English gentleman of sublime self-esteem,
challenges crack golfer Jim Lindsay to a game for the chance to propose
marriage to Mrs. Gunter, a beautiful American millionairess. Although
"Jacky" Core, the narrator, alleges to be a marvelously accomplished
sportsman, he has never set foot on a fairway and has only seven days to
learn to pitch, putt, and drive the course like a veteran.To
prepare for the match, which is to take place on the fictitious St.
Magnus links in Scotland (based on the Old Course at St. Andrews), Gore
secretly hires a coach and transforms his hotel room into a golf studio,
outfitted with turf, a moveable hillock, a bunker, and specially padded
walls to absorb drives. Gore is set to win or lose like a gentleman
when the revengeful ghost of a Scottish cardinal with some odd-shaped
clubs materializes, adding an otherworldly twist to the story.