New Yorker Cartoons -- Golf Edition: Golf Edition

Author: Robert Mankoff
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Publication Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Mark Twain once called golf "a fine walk, only marred by the interruption"; while Lee Trevino said golf was the most fun game he could play while wearing clothes. Whether for fools or experts, golf means both enjoyment and torment, and usually on the same day, or even on the same hole. So, how difficult is it to hold a club in both hands and hit a small ball into a small hole? The answer lies in the joy and pain of all those golf-crazed fans. If you want to know how obsessed they are, just ask their family and friends. No wonder golf has become a subject for the cartoonists of The New Yorker magazine. Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, has selected the most representative works from the past twenty years of cartoons, which fully showcase the passion, anxiety, and frequent absurdity of the golf fan world. This unforgettable collection contains 100 pages of cartoons, and we believe they will bring you the joy of a "hole-in-one."
At 75, The New Yorker is often talked about with admiration by some in China's cultural circles, as if it represents the highest level a literary magazine can achieve. This is mainly due to the introductions by figures like Dong Dingshan, but very few people in China have actually read it cover to cover. The New Yorker prides itself on its long-standing tradition, maintained through a stable editorial policy (for a magazine). This is both an advantage and a disadvantage—it represents an old-fashioned gentility on one hand, but also carries an air of outdated clichés on the other. A stable editorial policy is ensured by a stable editor-in-chief.