These are the folks who practice chip shots in elevators with invisible wedges. These are the people on the golf course in parkas on the first day the temperature tops 30 degrees. These are the junkies who spend hundreds of hours searching pharmaceutical companies' websites for a cure for the ""yips"". These golfers are ""nuts"" and the anecdotal stories of Golf Nuts are proof. In pathological putting circles, author Ron Garland is known as the ""Head Nut"" of the Golf Nuts Society, an organization that he founded which now boasts a vast membership of ""nuts"", and these are his favorite accounts from a group of seemingly normal people with an abnormal obsession.

Introduction...The Disease. 1st Hole...Early Symptoms. 2nd Hole...The Nuts Get Organized. 3rd Hole...Nut Bowl I. 4th Hole...The Prez. 5th Hole..."Joe". 6th Hole...Michael Jordan, Nut #0023. 7th Hole...These Celebrities Are Nuts Too! 8th Hole...Golf Nut Greats. 9th Hole...Ita s Golf or Me! 10th Hole...What, Me Work? 11th Hole...The Heavy Stuff. 12th Hole...Ia ll Take It! 13th Hole...The Collectors. 14th Hole...The Truly Committed. 15th Hole..."I Love This Game!" 16th Hole..."I Hate This Game!" 17th Hole...The Search for "The Secret". 18th Hole...There Is No Cure. 19th Hole...Dear Head Nut. Nut Notes. GNS Fact Sheet. Celebrity Members. Golf Nut Record Book. The Golf Nuta s Glossary. Golf Nut Quiz. GNS Membership Application.