Until I read Katherine Dunn’s brilliant collection of essays on boxing, it had never occurred to me that there was any kinship between the genteel game of golf and the brutal combat inside what Dunn calls the “One Ring Circus.”     In golf, the contest among players is mediated and indirect—“fellow competitors,” in golf’s refined parlance, play the course, not one another.  No one guards the hole or tries to distract his foe. ... Full Story