From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories. From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher"s fifth wife and a notorious "golfing giggler", to poor Rollo Podmarsh whose game was so unquestionably inept that "he began to lose his appetite and would moan feebly at the sight of a poached egg", the game of golf, its players and their friends and enemies are here shown in all their comic glory.