A couple great things you learn in this book: 1) If all golf were played at match play, there wouldn't be a need for all the rules we have today; 2) The rulebook as it stands today is as efficient and concisely written as possible, culled from centuries of input. Read this book and you will enjoy the game more than you do already.

The "Icelandic Converstaions" cassette tapes contain lots of useful phrases for the student of Icelandic, and the transcription is the only written material I know of containing English and Icelandic side-by-side, which is a great tool for learning. However, the recording was done long ago on primitive equipment, and it's quality is so poor as to be almost unintelligible. The speakers talk really fast and often kind of mumble. The result is useless unless you can re-record the tapes digitally, boosting the high frequencies and slowing down the speed. There is also too much time wasted on between-conversation English instruction, and the written transcription contains several errors. Plus, in my copy at least, the transcription is missing one complete page. Buy it, because there is nothing else available, but the whole thing needs to be re-done.