Andrew Jardine: 14 books

You don't have to browse through so many pages of a travel book. As a veteran of Hong Kong, who lived there for more than 20 years, I have chosen your hotel and told you what I would do for seven days in Hong Kong. It's best to buy an air ticket-hotel package and I have chosen what I think...

The sign at a Baptist church read "Behold THE Master" when I drove by on my sway to Magnolia Lane at Augusta National. No matter. I was on my way to a golfing heaven down the road. It was a place where Jack Nicklaus had reigned supreme. He won so many Green Jackets there, six in all, that many fans...

Are you an alcoholic? It took me 30 years to accept that I am one. My drinking days were sheer Hell. I was on a tortuous road full of potholes and pitfalls. I wanted to stop drinking, but couldn't. I got drunk in San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Cairo, Kinshasa, Bangkok and many...

China is still staunchly communist, but since it introduced capitalism in special economic zones, its economy has grown to the second largest one in the world after the United States. The new plan was the brainchild of leader Deng Xiaoping, who took part in the Long March from 1934-35. He introduced...

Expats are called Foreign Devils by Chinese people in Hong Kong. A man is a gweilo, a woman a gweipor. The city has attracted hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world because of the lifestyle they enjoy in the City of Light. During the more than 20 years I worked there, I came across...

Golfing great Nick Faldo has been called a real brick (a word open to interpretation). So when I carried his bag in an event in Hong Kong, I was wary. Sir Nick at one time was treated badly by the media and called "Foldo" when he flopped. He responded by telling reporters, after he won his first British...

Jack Nicklaus remains a big booming drive ahead of other contenders as the greatest golfer that ever lived. With 18 Majors in his bag, he's still four ahead of Tiger Woods who nows appears unlikely to match or overtake him. The Golden Bear played in 100 Majors, won 18, came second 19 ties and...

This is the first in a series of stories about the golfing greats. The series will feature, among others, Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Henry Cotton, Bobby Locke, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Peter Thomson, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo.

Golfing greats all know that the sport is mostly a mental battle. All players have the skills, but the men are separated from the boys when they're in the pressure cooker that is PGA tournament golf. How they cope is vital. Greats such as Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and others reveal their secrets to success. It's the space between your ears that counts, they say

My life has been rough and tough at times. I faced up to Shotgun Billy Smith and had a row with a topless barmaid over her tits in Hong Kong. I'm told that James Bond also visited Bottom's Up and got away with murder. But I was so shaken and stirred by her anger that I paid extra to have...

An inscription on a Zippo lighter I bought from a badly deformed Vietnamese boy reveals the horrors of the Vietnam War. The inscription read: "Killer by day and lover by night." I wondered how he felt having to sell this item to buy food. Americans and Vietnamese paid for the war with their lives...

This is the first in a series of stories about the golfing greats. The series will feature, among others, Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Henry Cotton, Bobby Locke, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Peter Thomson, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo.

A heavy drinker tells his nagging wife why he danced too close with a sexy blonde, fell asleep at a dinner party, reversed his car into a fire hydrant, hid bottles of brandy under their bed and played golf in the lounge. He complains about being fired from his job and being accused of failing to perform...

You can save up to 80% of your costs if you budget sensibly on a trip to Hong Kong. It's one of the most expensive cities in the world. But if you stay at a guesthouse, eat at a food stall, buy drinks from a supermarket, take a bus instead of a taxi, shop at a "copies" market and take inexpensive...