Look out for this paperback book by Henry Beard, it's a classic and comes in a new special titanium edition that is bound to impressive any golfer. There are over fifty rather generous exceptions that will be instantly recognisable to many holiday golfers, you may even wish to adopt some with your regular playing partners.

As well as the well known mulligan, there is the double mulligan (all players re-tee after equally disastrous drives, the straightsie (correction for a normal slice or hook that doesn't materialise) and the newbie (replay after bad shot with new club). I laughed aloud at the exception for the maximum shots you should drop in a bunker for a given handicap.

We have probably all played the throwbie to get back on the fairway at sometime, presumably with our playing partner's consent. Realistically it is hard to speak when a bad shot is played for fear of laughing at another's misfortune. So consent is likely in a friendly round.

The real beauty of this book is its thoroughness as it covers almost every unfair or awkward situation you can find. Really if you played the bad shot that put you in the rough, bunker, hazard, or 60' from the hole, you should accept the consequences but it is quite funny to consider the alternatives.

However serious you are about your golf, you will surely recognise something in this book. If not just read it for a good laugh.