"The roots run deep for Bill Fields in his moving memoir A Quick Nine Before Dark . Home is love's first universe, and Bill shares his with us, from his father's mysterious birth to the bond he forged with golf--the game he spent his life traveling the world to chronicle. He writes with wit and soul of the place that gave him not only roots but wings." -- Jim Moriarty, PineStraw Magazine "Bill Fields has built an exceptional career telling golf stories, bringing to life the game and the people who play it. In A Quick Nine Before Dark , Fields shares his story, a wonderful and enlightening reminiscence of his North Carolina childhood and how golf has shaped his life." -- Ron Green Jr., Global Golf Post "Bill Fields fell for golf early, and the Fields-Golf marriage has been a long and beautiful one. Bill's book is a celebration of it.

His writing here is out of a dream state. Like a ball on a fairway waiting to be struck, it starts on the ground--and then soars." -- Michael Bamberger, Golf.com writer and author of The Playing Lesson.