We asked the President of the New Jersey Club Manager's Association and Club Manager of Echo Lake Country Club, John Gomez, to talk with us about "Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club". 

Although John has never received a note from one of his members quite like the one main character (Patrick Whelk) did upon his appointment as club secretary, the antics and jockeying by club members in the book are remarkably familiar even 70 years after it was first written.  
An underground classic for decades, "Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club" (written by George Nash in 1935) is a truly hilarious account of the breaking of the mental health of the secretary of a British golf club because of the incessant threats and sabotages by club members such as the ferocious General Sir Armstrong Forcursue.

Click here to order your copy at Classics of Golf website. 

The Classics of Golf hardcover version is just $35.00 (free shipping in U.S.).

A big thank you to Mr. John Gomez!

Echo Lake Country Club (www.echolakecc.org) is in Westfield, NJ.  This Donald Ross designed course is known as the "Hidden Gem of New Jersey golf".

The New Jersey Club Managers Association (www.njcma.org) has more than 100 clubs in its membership.