Bad Lies: A Field Guide to Lost Balls, Missing Links, and Other Golf Mishaps »

Charles Lindsay has made a career of photographing the intersection of nature and culture. Whether living with a rain-forest tribe, exploring the world of fly-fishing, or turning the game of golf on its head, Lindsay has focused on our complex relationship to the natural world. He is the author of Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies; Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West; Turtle Islands: Balinese Ritual and the Green Turtle; and Mentawai Shaman: Keeper of the Rain Forest. Between journeys he resides in New York City; Sun Valley, Idaho; and in the northern Catskills.

Gary McCord is a professional golfer and golf analyst for CBS Sports. He is the author of Just a Range Ball in a Box of Titleists and the bestselling Golf for Dummies. Sporting his signature handlebar mustache, McCord played himself in the 1996 movie Tin Cup, starring Kevin Costner. He lives in Arizona.

Every golfer has experienced the heartbreak of a ball buried deep in a sand trap- the fried egg. They've heard the unmistakable plunk of a shot that lands in a water hazard- a truly playable lie. Or sunk the ball so deep in prickly gorse that no club yet invented could pry it free. That's a bad lie, for sure.

In Bad Lies: A Field Guide to Lost Balls, Missing Links, and Other Golf Mishaps, golf's wittiest observer, photographer Charles Lindsay, stakes out the diabolic border territories that encroach on golf courses- moon-crater bunkers, waist-high fescue grass, murky lake bottoms- to capture the unbelievable my-ball-went-where? moments that make the game so infuriating and so addictive for so many. We see golf balls in cacti, a lone golfer stranded on a stretch of beach by the fairway, and a scuba diver returning on errant ball from a pond to its rightful duffer, Lindsay's brilliant photographs showcase the pitfalls of the game in the same hilarious style that made his book Lost Balls so popular.

Sports Illustrated

PRAISE FOR LOST BALLS:

"Lindsay's howlingly hysterical photographs of the horrible things we do to golf balls--and they to us--put the tragedy and comedy of the game into focus."