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What do you do when it's too wet to hit golf balls? You turn to reading about the game, instead.

Fortunately, at about the same time ed hardy hoodies the heavens released their waters, Harper/Collins released a new book about golf. Specifically, about one very notorious golfer.

My Life In and Out of the Rough is the candid memoirs of John Daly. It's a collection of assorted battles with alcohol (now he drinks only beer), gambling (he still hasn't conquered that habit), his weight (an addiction to chocolate doesn't help), sex and divorce lawyers (he's been married four times and one of the most intriguing chapters is aptly titled: "All My

Exes Wear Rolexes."

Ever since his first victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, at age 25, Daly has been in and out of the headlines with his booming drives and his even more boisterous personality.

"Grip it and rip it" is his philosophy. This unbridled approach to the game and to life itself makes for a sometimes shocking, fascinating glimpse into the mind of golf's bad boy.

Daly is an admitted alcoholic (Jack Daniels) from a very early age; the other addictions were added as he became more successful.

His collection of wives is historic (as is his appetite for sex, he flatly admits) and he goes to great lengths to explain his marital relationships and the reasons for their failure. Even his current marriage is unique; his wife is serving a prison sentence for aiding her family in money-laundering for the mafia. But Big John is sticking by her, he says.

Daly also makes no excuses for his golf game, including the 18 he took on the 16th hole at Bay Hill in 1998, when he splashed six shots into the water. It wasn't that he didn't care, he said. He just lost patience. "But I got a hell of a lot of practice with my three-wood,"he added.

My Life In and Out of the Rough is available at local book stores and golf shops ($25.95 retail). It would make a fun gift for anyone on your Father's Day list.

With the forecast calling for sun early this week, catalog printing we can all play golf again. Looking back, it was a very wet scene for quite a while. At Passaconaway in Litchfield, they jet-skied around the fairways, one employee joked. Amherst and Hoodcroft also had their share of watery woes. It seemed the farther south you went, the wetter it got.

In Concord, Beaver Meadow's worst problems were on the fairways. The 14th was one long pond from tee to green - actually getting ready to submerge the double green, course superintendent Bernard Chase reported. "All you saw was water."

They did lose the cart paths between holes 12 and 13, and 14 and 15, but things are back to normal now. "I consider us really fortunate, other than being closed for a few days," Chase said.

Rich Thibeault was concerned about the new construction at Concord Country Club, but it suffered only minor damage. The culvert on the redesigned 14th hole got jammed up with debris, and there was some structural damage to the wall that surrounds the new pond when the stones slid a bit, Thibeault said. But other than very soggy fairways and some tough walking for golfers after the course reopened, they considered themselves lucky.

"We got the last of the sod down on the new holes just before it started to rain and fortunately, the 16th hole (with its new pond) was pretty well knitted in," he said. "We had the sod down there first, so it came tOther articles:http://www.dentist-networks.com/blog/view/id_128/title_gett ing-connected-pupils-to/http://philfriendsters.com/blog/view/id_535/title_Eclipse-sin ks-after-blockbuste/