The special world of the sport that consists of hitting a little white ball into a hole with instruments that look like they are not at all adapted to the task. It's the book of a lifetime, the one that encompasses all past books for those who enjoy this strange ceremony. Why do the great and powerful of the earth become sheep on the green? Those who have all, why can't they live without it once they've tried it? Because people who are masters of everyone and everything finally discover something that resists. In over 230 entries, we discover who really invented the sport, why Tiger Woods is the highest paid sportsman on the planet, and how an error of the ball caused the game to spread throughout the world. We find out how Sean Connery shot the famous cheating scene in Goldfinger, and why there are eighteen holes in a game (purely by chance!). We learn how Hitler was humiliated by English golfers at the Olympic Games, who the « Basque sorcerers » were, and why France missed its rendez-vous with destiny, even though the French have been playing golf since 1856. Why is Saint Andrew's, in Scotland, the golfers' mecca ? And how is a golf tournament shot for television ? And what fetish object did Georges Simenon cherish until his death? (A golf club, of course.) It's all here. In fact, this dictionary is itself rather like a golf club. Once you pick it up, you can't put it down.