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| Preface | |
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| Shivas Irons | |
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| A Footnote Regarding His Name | |
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| Golf in the Kingdom | |
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| Singing The Praises of Golf | |
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| Seamus Macduff's Baffing Spoon | |
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| We are All Kites in That Wind | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Game's Hidden But Accessible Meaning | |
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| Golf as a Journey | |
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| The Whiteness of the Ball | |
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| The Mystery of the Hole | |
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| Replacing the Divot | |
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| A Game for the Multiple Amphibian | |
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| Of a Golf Shot cm the Moon | |
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| The Inner Body | |
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| As Experience | |
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| As Fact | |
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| As Luminous Body | |
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| Some Notes on True Gravity | |
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| Occult Backlash | |
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| A Golfer's Zodiac | |
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| Hogan and Fleck in the 1955 U.S. Open | |
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| A Hamartiology of Golf | |
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| How the Swing Reflects the Soul | |
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| The Rules of the Game (And How They are Related to Fairy Dust) | |
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| On Keeping Score (How Shivas Irons helped the British Empire dwindle) | |
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| The Pleasures of Practice | |
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| Keeping Your Inner Eye on the Ball | |
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| Blending | |
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| Becoming One Sense Organ | |
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| The Value of Negative Thoughts (Turning the evil urge toward God) | |
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| On Breakthroughs (The greatest breakthrough is taking forever) | |
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| Against Our Ever Getting Better | |
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| The Game Is Meant for Walkin' | |
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| Visualizing the Ball's Flight: How Images Become Irresistible Paths | |
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| Shivas Irons' History of the Western World (With some predictions regarding full flight in true gravity, the luminous body, knowledge of the cracks in space-time, and universal transparency) | |
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| The Crooked Golden River | |
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| A List of People Who Knew | |
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| The Higher Self | |
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| Relativity and the Fertile Void | |
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| Universal Transparency and a Solid Place to Swing from | |
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| Humans Have Two Sides, or Dualism is All Right (The psychology of left and right, the myth of the fall, and die need to collapse) | |
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| His Ideal (The twentieth century is a koan, but that is a very good thing; from a chameleon on a tartan plaid to life in the contemplative one) | |
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| The Dance of Shiva | |
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| Afterword: Spring 1997, the Sublime and Uncanny in Golf | |
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| Reflections on the Rules of Golf | |
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| A Bibliography for the Reconstructed Golfer | |
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| The Shivas Irons Society | |