Good Lifestyle

My boss loves golf, ends with golfers and promotes people who play. I make fun of me less on the sport. Is there a way to overcome this handicap? -Steve M., Raleigh, N.

Yes there is! If you learn to talk intelligently on golf and appear interested, you'll get 90% of career delivery without ever swinging a club. If you are a type of businessman, you already have the skills to do it: you are a follower at Bs'ing on a topic you know very little, and you may be interested in questions in which you do not do not have it.

So start by making a little duty.

Catch a little golf to television to pick up the terminology and learn players (note: true golf aficionados only use first names, nicknames or abbreviations, as if they are good friends, so be prepared To a casual drop-down list "Rickie," "DJ", "JT," "Bubba", "Tiger", "Phil" and "Rory").

If you are really dedicated, you can go to Amazon to recover a copy ofA good spoiled walk: days and nights on the PGA tour, John Feinstein. The book is funny and an excellent reading, and I guarantee you that you will know more about the game after finishing it. You could even tell the boss you read it and that it was good. He will agree with you or go looking at him.

The golf books are like the cocaine cracks to the pilots of wholesale swings. And in the unlikely event that he invites you to join his quartet, simply remember the phrase "injury to the brewer of rotator".