The Art of The Mulligan

By Myron J Kukla

The new golf guide, “The Art of the Mulligan: Fun Golf For Everyone” brings more fun to the game for golfers of all skill levels Art of the Mulligan goes well beyond the usual “hit it again” Mulligan on the first tee into whole new uses for the Mulligan to get more fun out of your game.
Sharing new Mulligan guidelines developed by long time average golfer Myron Kukla and his golfing friends, the book introduces the concept that since Mulligans aren't covered by PGA rules, golfers can use Mulligans any time they need as an “improvement shot” to stay competitive.
“The concept of the Mulligan on the first tee hasn’t changed in over 100 years since Dave Mulligan in Canada and John “Buddy” Mulligan in New Jersey started using the shot in the 1920s,” Kukla said.
He and weekend golf buddies expanded the “do over” shot from only being used on the first tee, to being allowed on any tee. Then they got creative and took off the tee limitation and made it, “Play the Mulligan Anywhere, Except on the Green.”
The humorous book is filled with descriptions of places and times to best use a Mulligan to knock two-to-three strokes or more off a round of golf. And if you play Kukla’s “one Mulligan a side” rule, an average player can lower their score by up to six strokes by improving just a couple bad shots per round.
“What we have to remember is that for professional golfers, golf is their business. They practice every day with the best equipment on the best courses while we might get to hit a bucket of balls once a week before our league round,” writes Kukla in the book. “Is it fair then, that you, the weekend golfer, have to play by the same rules as professional golfers.”
Calling the Mulligan “the most underutilized tool in your golf bag,” the book gives pointers on Mulligan strategy and management, match play Mulligans, and just how to use it to improve you game and score.
“I believe golf is a fun game to be enjoyed, not torture.”
The book also includes a short history of how the Scots invented golf on the windswept shores of the North Atlantic with a bottle of Scotch to keep them warm. “I believe a lot of rules of golf--like having players call penalties on themselves--can be attributed to the Scots being drunk when they created the rules.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Myron J Kukla
• Release date: Mar 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370427055

Myron J Kukla

Myron J Kukla is a Midwest writer living in Holland, Mich., tulip capital of the world. Kukla has two in print humor books,"Guide to Surviving Life" and "Confessions of a Baby Boomer," both available at: https://squareup.com/store/myronkuklabooks. He has two ebooks at amazon.com: the creature-feature / monster adventure, "Chomp" featuring anthropologist Dr. Dawn Dreamer. and the historical/mystery/romance "Something in the Blood" about a crazy Halloween Night search by the original Dracula, Bela Lugosi, and wannabe starlet, Dorothy from Kansas. for immortality, love and a crazed killer. Kukla writes a monthly columns "Guide to Surviving..." appearing in Best Version city magazines across the U.S. and Canada. He is also a regular contributor to the Erma Bombeck humor website: www.humorwriters.org. Kukla's short stories have also appeared in three Not Your Mother’s Book ... anthologies on --cats, computers and sex. He is presently completing several novels including "Murder at Tulip Time" a mystery set during the Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan. Contact information: Email: [e-mail].

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Art of The Mulligan:

Fun golf for everyone

By

Myron J. Kukla

Copyright © 2018 by Myron J. Kukla

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my dad, Stan Kukla, a scratch golfer who used Mulligans for practice.

Contents

Introduction

What a Mulligan can do for a golfer

League rules vs. PGA rules

Professional golfers are Professionals—you aren’t

The Scots invented golf- short history

History of the Mulligan

No rules for Mulligans

The first big change to the Mulligan

The versatile Mulligan

Any way you like it

Ways to play Mulligans

Mulligan strategies

When to use the Mulligan

Golf is a psychological game

When to play Mulligans

Psychological advantage

Mulligans: Go from ugly to good shot

Mulligans can (maybe) fix your game

Mulligans - fair for all

Other places and times for a Mulligan

Mulligans - Use It, or Lose It

New Mulligan games — The SLM TM Mulligans

Summary of Mulligan uses

About the author

I would like to extend my appreciation to pixabay.com for use of the golf photos in this book.

Introduction

The most underutilized tool in the golf bag for the average player is the Mulligan. The Mulligan, as most golfers know, is a do over after a bad shot, usually off the first tee.

Art of the Mulligan goes well beyond the usual hit it again Mulligan on the first tee into whole new uses for the Mulligan to get more fun out of your game.

This book not only will give you a deeper understanding of this important tool, but also its history and how to use it to improve your golf score.

As my golf buddies and I like to joke, we use Mulligans in lieu of practice.

What a Mulligan can do for a golfer

In the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Club, PGA pro Phil Mickelson had a 1-stroke lead as he stood on the 18th tee of the final hole. Despite having only hit two fairways in his final round, Mickelson used his driver again. He hit a pushed slice that bounced off a hospitality tent into a bunch of trees.

Rather than hitting a short chip safe and getting the ball back into