Golf Courses?

Why would you start a book with golf courses, that has nothing to do with golf and then spend thirty pages after talking about golf, when the book has nothing to do with golf. Ask Walker Percy, because I have no idea.

I really did not enjoy this book and have not spent a whole lot of time thinking about it, with it being the end of the semester and all that, but what would be the benefit of beginning a book called The Second Coming at a golf course?

The only thing that I have been able to come up with is that it is the perfect place to begin having flashbacks. Golf is a boring game, regardless of what my husband thinks, and there is nothing to do while golfing but think and trip over bunkers. Will Barrett has every right to trip over his own feet and have flashbacks, golf is something that is meant to be played by the individual. This book is so much a thing that takes place in the mind that it only makes sense that you would have this book begin at a golf course. When playing golf you are not even supposed to talk if anyone is about to swing to hit the ball. Of course! Golf is the perfect game to be playing at the beginning of this very individual centered book. It all makes perfect sense now...sort of.