Should I not fear a return to activity?”) (‘sure the volcano is long inactive, but so are Tony Orlando and Dawn. On Bali, in the Indian Ocean, he forsakes his lob wedge for a lava wedge on a gold course laid out in the crater of a volcano. In the Arctic Circle, he meets ice golfers, one of whom explains: “We play on snow, in freezing temperatures, with balls that are purple.” To which Rushin can only reply: “Yes, well, I imagine they must be.” In The Caddie Was a Reindeer Rushin circumnavigates the globe with his golf clubs–less pole-to-pole than flagstick-to-flagstick–in pursuit of extreme recreation. A four-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, Rushin is the author of Road Swing, ranked among the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated, for which he writes the enormously popular “Air and Space” column. Paul Pioneer Press and “certainly the most fun to read” by the Hartford Courant.
Steve Rushin has been called “the best sportswriter in America” by the St. A joy ride through the wild world of sports from “the best sportswriter in the country” (St.
