The inspiration for this story was drawn from the author’s real life experiences on the golf course.  A number of the characters – Doug, Jack and Lisa – are borrowed from real people.  The author used the essence of these real life people to help build his story but all of the events within the story are fiction as are the other key characters of George and Harry, and their families.

The author is a physician.  He and his friend and fellow physician, Doug, loved golf.  Their very busy medical practices afforded them very little time for the game.  In fact, the characters within this story hit the links more frequently that the real-life counterparts!  The author and the real Doug arrived at their club on a Saturday morning – eager for a round of golf – to find that a gentle rain was starting.  The radar in the clubhouse showed heavy rain on its way.  As many golfers were canceling their tee times and leaving to avoid the rain, the desperate pair decided to create for themselves what they would refer to as “Fullerton’s (fictional name) Rules”.  By this, they agreed that they had such little time off from medical duties to play that they could not allow a little bad weather deprive them – they would play in any weather except lightning.  This anecdote is a true story and with this moment, the idea for the novel was born.  The real pair were well-educated, constantly reading and sharing books and actively discussing intellectual matters from the nature of the golf swing to physics (always fascinated by the idea of “String Theory”).  They saw the humor of conducting intellectual discussion while standing in pouring rain on a golf course.  Over time, anecdotes from their observations on the course fueled this story.  The story is about people and relationships.  Golf is merely a convenient backdrop for the story and much of the humor in the story results from events on the course.