“The Devil and the Judge”

The Hon. Albert J. Driscoll receives the adulation of his fellow members of Crooked Creek Golf Club for his impressive legal career. Unfortunately, they do not hold him in the same regard concerning his dismal golf game. He resolves to direct his strong ego at becoming one of the very best golfers in the club. How did he do it?

“Percy Loves Clarissa”

The young Percy Hall meets Clarissa Fairbanks on the Crooked Creek course by chance. Immediately the fourteen-year-old is smitten by her beauty and her dramatic personality, but he struggles to fulfill Clarissa’s romanticized vision of love.

“Houdini versus Freud”

Golf is a game of honor. Unfortunately, exceptions to the dignity of the game exist at Crooked Creek—like John K. Dart and Rollie Roebling, each of whom has his own method of unsportsmanlike behavior. When two other members of the club devise a scheme to have them face off in the club championship tournament, their round becomes unsettling for the other members and the caddies involved.

“Blue Redd”.

Behind the eighteenth green, a large stump has lain dead for decades. Wedged deep in a crack that runs across its flat surface, the head of a putter, now missing its shaft, remains trapped for eternity. What series of events brought this putter such notoriety?

“The Feud”

The feud between the Lafayettes and the Vanstoophens had subsided decades ago. Despite the growing friendship between two young women, one from each family, the conflict reignites when the last putt falls into the hole.

“Lucky’s Lucky Penny”.

When “Lucky” Smith shows up at the club wanting to caddie, much speculation follows about the origin and nickname of the mysterious man. This leads to discussions in the caddie shack about the nature of “luck” and arguments in the club bar about truth when it concerns the stranger.

“The Ghost of Big H Matel”

 “Little H” Matel returns home from New York City after a failed acting career with a distraught mind over the death of his father, known as “Big H,” a year earlier. His younger brother Bradford tries to convince him the visions of their father that Little H sees are not real. The unfolding tragedy can only be described as “Shakespearean.”

“Wordsworth”

The twelve-year-old lad, known as Wordsworth, spends his summer days hanging around the woods beside the fourteenth hole listening to the birds and admiring the white clouds above Crooked Creek Golf Club as his mother works in the clubhouse kitchen. She is confounded by the fact that he has not spoken for two years. Fortunately, one of the young golfing ladies at the club takes an interest in him.