Editing Alistair Cooke (section)

===Recreation and interests===
Cooke took up golf in his mid-fifties, developing a fascination with the game, despite never attaining an extraordinary level of skill.<ref name="Mania">{{cite book | last = Cooke | first = Alistair | title = The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf | publisher=Penguin Books | location = London | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-14-103101-9}}</ref> He was driven by his love of golf to devote many of his ''Letter from America'' episodes to the topic, speaking once of the thrill of learning "how much more awesome was the world of golf than the world of politics."<ref name="Mania" /> Cooke became close friends with many of the leading golfers of the era: [[Jack Nicklaus]], in the introduction to a compilation of Cooke's writing on golf, recounts his many notable achievements, but describes him as "most of all&nbsp;... a friend."<ref name="Mania" />