The number of golfers and courses have been drastically reduced, with
real female golfers completely removed, and even Pro Career Mode feels very impersonal.
As in The Man Who Was Thursday and The Flying Inn (two books Oser clearly had in mind), Oracles offers a kaleidoscopic supporting cast with verve: a duo of fast - talking and hard - drinking
female real - estate agents and amateur
golfers whose banter is straight out of an Abbot and Costello routine («Tell me, dear, why does a man want sex?»