By Dylan Dethier
Scribner
258 pages
(Before entering Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., Dylan Dethier hit the road to play a round of golf in each of the lower 48 states.)
"They didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet at Alder Creek [Golf Course in Boonville, N.Y.]. As I pulled in the driveway, I noted a dilapidated practice green a few yards off the road, its mini-flagsticks leaning one way or the other as if to mimic the schizophrenic grass on the putting surface itself. Hundreds of golf balls, some yellow and some an old, coffee-stained shade of white, lay abandoned on the ground of the too-short driving range, which looked as it it would serve as their final resting place. Wild grass had conquered two wheels and part of the front cage of the range picker and seemed determined to envelop it entirely."
