This is a 'father-son' story -- Dexter Westrum's memoir of his father's frustrating career as a small-time golf professional, a man for whom big-time success in golf always seems one or two impossible shots away. Funny and honest, Westrum's account of growing up under his father's tutelage is far more than a golf tale. Indeed, anyone will be absorbed and moved by this loving account of a man for whom life was always 'almost'.