I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

And when I find my ball in a bright egg.

Bright egg.

The dreaded bright egg.

Bright egg.

Bright egg.

Bright egg.

Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.

Welcome to the bright egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison. And my guest today is Shane Bacon.

Shane is the host of the excellent podcast. Get a grip. A friend of the bright egg. And now a children's book author.

Shane's new book is called The Golfers Zoo. It was published by back nine press. And you can order it right now.

So Shane and I are going to talk about this book and about the occasionally fraught relationship between parenting and golf.

But I also thought we'd discuss Shane's background in writing. He actually got his start in golf media as a blogger.

And he has some interesting takes on how the media landscape has shifted in the past 15 years or so.

Now Shane is the first of a few book authors we're planning to have on the podcast in November and December.

I figure it's getting cold outside in a lot of places. Golf season is winding down. And it's a good time to bring some new books into your life.

So we'll give you a few different options over the next couple of months.

All right, with that, let's go to Shane Bacon.

This is a, you know, kind of middle of the book is when I get a little I get a little frisky with the book.

And I try to take a little digs at some of the moms and dads that are potentially reading to their kids that aren't the best golfers.

Golf uses animal terms like eagle and birdie and holes that are dog legs move left or right on the seventh and eighth lives a family of owls who ask who with some serious fright.

And you can see, you can see the beautiful AVL illustration there with the owl. They need just crushed it. But yeah, I mean, you know, that's pretty surreal to continue to kind of look at didn't see this thing actually in hand.

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