A Son of the Game

“Jim Dodson's new memoir reveals the depth of his love for golf, fatherhood, and his ancestral home--the Sandhills of North Carolina. A Son of the Game also showcases Jim's amazing skill with a pen, and his wisdom about the human condition. This is a wonderful book.” --Curt Sampson, author of The Slam: Bobby Jones and the Price of Glory 

“Jim Dodson has in his many books shown a rare ability to take the reader into landscapes both physical and mental, and burrow deeply into each. He again accomplishes this in A Son of the Game, and demonstrates that he is a virtuoso in conveying why Pinehurst is a special place in the golfing firmament, and, moreover, why it provides the ideal setting for him to resolve matters within himself, and with his own son. This memoir will make you feel as if you are in Pinehurst with the author, and it will reveal timeless truths about the game, and human nature, as they seep through and out of the soil of one of golf’s timeless places.”-- Lorne Rubenstein, author of A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands

“My good friend Jim Dodson seems to come up with one good book after another. But he produces something particularly powerful, something extra when he writes about his own life experiences, as in his first book, the highly acclaimed Final Rounds, and his latest, A Son of the Game. He is now the father, passing on to his son, Jack, the love and contentment he has rediscovered in golf and family. Once again, Jim touches the heartstrings.” -- Arnold Palmer